More Desk Drawer Mining

           Maine's Millennium

The heavenly sheriff might yet come

his great white horse maned with fire

come at a ghostly gallop down route nine

from Calais to Cape Porpoise to Kittery

past nested farms coastal cities country towns

where selected friends and neighbors

would disappear as simply as silently as they

lived yet always being there if need be

good mute faithful all with books in

balance some capital intact as father taught

deciding now after consideration and in 

fairness to give the Messiah a second chance.

          Dark Continent

Searching still for the Nile's source

we sample substance niaga, climb

the rhinencephalon to take a sight

on distance stellate ganglia where

flows the encephalon, where all

the natives still point south reciting

names of ancient cities sung of

but seldom seen. Will we ever reach

that fabled palace where the queen

of consciousness rules supreme

without a fixed address or throne?

Hippocampus, hypothalamus remain

points on our map with precious little

in between. What, we wonder rhymes

with amygdala? Wise men whisper:

you must follow your own star, follow

as your time unwinds bushing each

new pattern of colored sand away

you'll be swear when you arrive.