Child of the moment gleaming from no where?
From what wonder star galaxy bright swirling
the dim earth that sadly sells for a thin dime.
The coffin box there lies for all to see, but people
just past it by hungry for strange wailing ghost with toys.
Where do you come from and where are you going?
Did you know the grey showers outside are gleaming
in sad rivers going no where but the boisterous sea.
Child of the moment gleaming green from no where,
the melody pours forth so refined disappearing to the space.
A boy eleven with his instrument by an old church
playing much better than a professional on Easter Eve
as birds listened fascinated while others drifted to work.
The church was ringing its bells tirelessly through the air,
as the boats of the Miami River came to their old piers,
the children were playing under the palms, as an old
bearded painted sat his hours to his easel in drizzling rain.
Later, Michio, a Japanese guy with sarong and tank top
and a flowing beard playing his shakuhachi and drum
~isn’t this what they loved, instead of so much television?
The ocean was out there, as people suntanned,
but the colorful playground was empty before us.
There was a long conversation before us, but
he had certainly a plane, then a train to catch….
The long haired, bearded Japanese one was on a long trip
to Macchu Picchu, then staying in Belize for the rest
of the year in a rundown old cottage by the sea,
eating fish and laying naked under naked stars
with his childhood friends Miguel Suertes Blanco,
and Bianca Rodriguez and their seven children
in their tattered old clothes and rundown shanty
by the blue curling river with abundant fish.
Sitting under the shady green strumming the charango
to long lost memories of olden songs his mother sang.
There will be old Mariachi bands, Peruvian flutes,
Faraway drumming as the purple rain falls.
Laying there with the toucan and sliding snake
on the old rustic hammock enjoying the breeze.
He will change his shade with the misty moon,
and appear later as the frightful yellow leopard hidden
deep in the cave crying at the misty moon!
