Dark star crashes pouring its light into ashes Reason tatters the forces tear loose from the axis Searchlight casting for faults in the clouds of delusion shall we go, you and I While we can? Through the transitive nightfall of diamonds Look for awhile At the China Cat Sunflower Proud-walking jingle In the midnight sun Copper-dome Bodhi Drip a silver kimono Like a crazy-quilt stargown Through a dream night wind Krazy Kat peeking Through a lace bandana Like a one-eyed Cheshire Like a diamond-eye Jack A leaf of all colors plays A golden string fiddle To a double-E waterfall Over my back Comic book colors On a violin river Crying Leonardo words
From out a silk trombone I rang a silent bell Beneath a shower of pearls In the eagle wing palace Of the Queen Chinee No more time to tell how This is the season of what Eight-sided, whispering-hallelujah hatrack This the time of returning Thought j**els, polished and gleaming Six proud walkers on the jingle-bell rainbow This the time, past believing The child has relinquished the reign Four men writing with fingers of gold Now is the test of the boomerang Three girls waiting in a foreign dominion Tossed in the night of redeeming Riding in the whalebelly, fade away in moonlight Sink beneath the waters to the coral sands below