last poem

For kari edwards

I am the remembrance of the world’s record- k.e.

there are horns in this uncomfortable
tonight tasks with me in my emails
silence, it is true, unjust word
with only a rocky pass to jeep
i think it was judy garland on tape
now what surgical heart tells says
‘you’re not fooling me’
fortune teller of how many families
not in the stars, but in the reading
out of fire pits, unearthed mother of souls
5,000 years if these rebirthed voices
do not go still this is victory
answer with succession of peace
as if life was the question

i just found out that kari passed on Saturday December 2, 2006.
kari was a true and couragous freind, noble spirit and brilliant artist and poet.
Sie will be missed dearly.