SamadhiMuse

      Wordless against the world of ideas
         echoes of passion, memories of causes
      cannot stir, as feeling those things once did
         and I feel I must appear slow
            or non-verbal these days.
      Lisa, so bright, burns her mid-twenties
         on the pyre of ideas and understandings
      and I found it hard to participate with her
         because I was reminiscing while she was  creating
      So, I wonder, do I listen to a more subtle drummer
         or am I just dying at the wheel
      it’s strange that we pass from things
         and become something, someone
            no longer able to go back.
                              gallagher
                              13 september 83 – Irvine – talking to Lisa

— Copyright 1965-2008 by Dennis Gallagher —

      “I’ve felt that too.” … an empty gesture
      We celebrate that two or more could come here
      as validation of the paths we’re on
      At a pin-the-tail-on-the-donkey party
      we congratulate those we bump into
      Comparing notes on how to burn time in paradise.
                              gallagher
                              13 september 83 – Irvine

— Copyright 1965-2008 by Dennis Gallagher —

         This moment … this moment
            maybe, when we find ourselves at some moment
         jangled, disoriented and squirming
            reaching for some composure to embrace
         maybe its the result of letting go
            in some previous moment, hours or days ago
         when in some state of bliss we fell unconscious
            to awake here, adrift, trying to connect again.
                                    gallagher
                                    26 september 83
                                    irvine,ca

— Copyright 1965-2008 by Dennis Gallagher —