Root System

by Dan Hedges

whole root systems of
reassuring metaphors
reverse migrate the metaphysical
templates of our existential
defence mechanisms
and proceed to compass around
our
post-industrial
God metaphor

One Shot

by Dan Hedges

you imagine yourself as a blue dot
with no responsibilities in the
morning except for
just ‘holding it all together’
that is the tone and
shape of the dot;
and whereas the believed blue dot
has staying power
our only one shot at eternity
has nothing to do with
personal identity

Untitled #131

by Dan Hedges

when you’re lucid dreaming about
assorted owls in the pre-life,
note how spiritual narratives
reverse migrate the uncanny
to the mundane;
in the flight of abstraction,
we carry the spirit forth

Angular and Toothy

by Dan Hedges

glass bottles being smashed
in reverse
gives us‘the whole’
from the‘shattered’.
everything is whole and broken
in our march with infinity,
in the instant where 
angular and toothy things
make us human.