Tombstone my daughter enters the room and finds me on the edge of my bed What can be funnier than this, she said I’m not ready for school 2. when I slide into the blue car bleeding wires where Sachdev’s flute used to sing 3. the edge of a hole an old man's hair my father asking questions making me shake his life in a box 4. prison walls the wind exits all covered in time 5. the tide sunrise in our eyes we lean out and look upon shiny black roads bordering the sand 6. There are hills trees roads and townships gossip is time loving the visit, thinking                                                          - all 7. someone coughs bring the hoe inside door locks 4:30 in the morning 8.           charlie parker rides with a farmhand                    ...voxxi David tells me about song I read Paul Blackburn “hands move earth  feeling earth” moment to moment to monument in time blue and polished stone 9. The Morning Sun I’ve been a mean son of a bitch and I’m sorry © 2007 Frank Parker         Frank's Home