flesh!

    the bright sheeny banner that heralds this late summer run of days is the streaming talisman called JOY, ponder it though I will this one grand emotion lifts me out of bed every glorious dawn & ponyrides me across a world lavished in golden light & I find it elation to simply draw breath why & wherefore? does every surface fairly shimmers & exalt the eye that partakes in it? by the lilt of a voice or swept clearly 'round the bend by some stray melody chanced upon:  This sublime condition questions every other, it asks why curse the almshouse when a rosy Taj Majal stretches form you in every direction?  This wine is effervescent & bubbles over the rim of your ears with the greatest gift there is, affection for all that's encountered, the roadie in the next car yawning as you wait for the light on Camden, the brown squirrel raining down shucking onto your breezy skull, even the lone geranium announcing its hour in the neglected sideyard, Affection, Kinship, Laughter, FLESH!