Francis Michael Buck

For a while, I wandered in the desert of infinity I thought about truth and the meaning of divinity I went home to twist leaves and dream of meat-eating orchids ...

We'll go down to the valley The valley of ash and stone If I should die before my time Will you try to save my soul? They'll bury me down ...

All I WantI don't want a lot, all I want is to be loved and rich and hated and famous and envied and lose it all and tell the truth ...

UNIVERSIUSWith time's passage our forms decayEntropy's hand is the order by which we abideWith it we return to the darkness incarnateAnd the God of our dreams awaitsLaughing at the world's ...

Silly girlI know what you were thinkingSaw it in your eyesThat first timeEyes like ice beneath that hair like nightI can remember your laughLaughing at meOr with meIs there even ...

For anyone interested, I was listening to this when I wrote the poem, so if you like you can give it a listen because the emotions it evokes (for me ...

dry out my mouth with sand and gritthe treesthe groundthe skygod is aching for my returnthe small aspects of our lifethe tiny grooves of our loveshifting their weightgod is not ...