Archive for 1986

1986-01-02

Thursday, January 2nd, 1986

Softly … come softly … come the rain
in grays and blues.
The winter’s wind, the closed out sky.

I’m here … waiting … for the rain,
I’ve been here for years
waiting for this season to wash me clean.

Somewhere … beyond the rain
lies Leningrad and Mexico City,
Vancouver and Australia.

Time to let the rain wash me away
from these people and places
that tie me down in a changing world.

I want to be a Buddha or a Saint
or a madman … I want to be something
no more waiting and rusting in the rain.

Such faces and turmoil …
cultures and insights
wait for me … alone.

gallagher
2 Jan 86

— Copyright 1965-2008 by Dennis Gallagher —

1986-01-12

Sunday, January 12th, 1986

The way a guy attacks his worklist
shows if he’s work
or pleasure oriented.

gallagher
12 Jan 86

— Copyright 1965-2008 by Dennis Gallagher —

1986-01-12

Sunday, January 12th, 1986

It whispers around
that scary sound
of being alone

but when it does
I think of Rose
and I hope it goes

there’s nothing out here/there
but the clothes we wear
and that silent sound.

gallagher
12 Jan 86

— Copyright 1965-2008 by Dennis Gallagher —