The Black Hole of Cygnus X-1

The place is in distant space. The brilliant blue star surrendering her fiery atmosphere to the egg shaped black void in the universe is Cygnus X-1.  Cygnus X-1 is 6,000 light years from our own sun. The artist depicts this painting by translating electromagnetic  information in to visual painting. The flaming cyan orb of Cygnus hang prominently in the right of the painting eclipsed by the frame. Cygnus’s companion is pulling in the translucent glowing bluish white environment toward the off left center.  The companion is a black hole wrapped in her radiant embrace.  The embrace coax by the black hole’s powerful gravity’s  attraction.  The intensity of the embrace is pitted by an oval darkness that cannot even be described with non-imaginary mathematics or reason. The malevolent pull of the hungry void swirls the excited flesh of the star into a frenzy of spinning plasma, hasten faster and faster in the ravenous maw. As Cygnus’s essence touches the skin of her dark companion. The combination of collision and acceleration spawn twin intense white spires of x-ray and gamma radiation parallel with Cygnus’s mass as they decay into royal blue leaving the top and bottom of the frame. These spire are all that remains of what Cygnus will eventually become. She can feel the destructive attractions dragging at her concealed core, deep in the blackness of space. The star shine dull as voyeurs of the act of destruction or rebirth.

Louisiana Kiss

The sullen sun finds it’s setting behind the darkening verdant leaves.

Tree’s filter summer simmering rain to amount of moisture.

Drenched in moist sky kisses, hands held sweating climb

To the peeking cliff bridge’s sigh. Sigh for the waning light

Reflecting fast waters below. Time in setting, slows.

Pulses pulse hard hot blood in depth of breath.

Sweetening sweeps of sly shy eyes sing

To the wanting, to the calling of couple’s center.

Coupling forms fit as if broken piece is mended like

A mighty quantity of gravity holds them together

Syrupy speeches are said, yet no words whispered.

The urging in the eyes and electric in wind weave the

Words, better than would be spoken, completely open

The world, wind, and weather dissolve into ether

Everything is nothing, but this happening.

Paired hearts heave heavy, beating time to dilate.

Mulling in eyes ask, pulling essence and faces near

For momentary peck of soul’s spark.

Lightening smashing thru and thru throw

Lovers in to the airy places between places

Kiss cracks the slender seal holding passion’s bay

With the bruising and spilling of an ill wielded wine key.

Staining the lover’s lips and flesh blush.

Breaths are gasps and hushing smacks fevered

Hands madly caressing.

Generating their own gravity glow fifty feet

Over the orb of the sordid world.

Untouchable heights to the trudging depth this

Bound they become immune.

Trancing into transmutations of desire.

The desire spent tingling to tired.

Retiring moody moon falls into blankets of sliver

Gilded cotton amethyst. Cupid the antagonist

Seeded his poison addiction deep

To forever seek this tender drug again

And again.

Eli, Eli, Lema Sabachthani

O to grace how great a debtor

daily I'm constrained to be!

Let thy goodness, like a fetter,

bind my wandering heart to thee.

Prone to wander, Lord, I feel it,

prone to leave the God I love

I've just seen a face,

I can't forget the time or place

That we'd just met, she's just the girl for me

And I want all the world to see we've met

Every time I see you, well the rays of the sun are all
Streaming through the waves in your hair
And every star in the sky is taking aim at your eyes
Like a spotlight

Life is good I can't complain
I mean I could but no one's listening
Your image overwhelms my brain
And it feels good, good, good

We got some thin we both know it,
We dont talk too much about it
Aint no real big secret, all the same,
Somehow we get around it

Let me tell you the story about the call that changed my destiny
Me and my boys went out, just to end up in misery
I was about to go home and there she was standing in front of me
She said "hi,
I got a little place nearby,
wanna go?"

It's strange to think the songs we used to sing
The smiles, the flowers, everything: is gone
Yesterday I found out about you
Even now just looking at you: feels wrong
You say that you'd take it all back, given one chance
It was a moment of weakness and you said yes...

and there are voices
that want to be heard
so much to mention
but you can't find the words
the scent of magic
the beauty that's been
when love was wilder than the wind

I can't stand it, I know you planned it
I'm gonna set it straight, this Watergate
I can't stand rocking when I'm in here
'Cause your crystal ball ain't so crystal clear

The secret side of me, I never let you see
I keep it caged but I can't control it
So stay away from me, the beast is ugly
I feel the rage and I just can't hold it

I'm a street walking cheetah
with a heart full of napalm
I'm a runaway son of the nuclear A-bomb
I am a world's forgotten boy
The one who searches and destroys

One pill makes you larger
And one pill makes you small
And the ones that mother gives you
Don't do anything at all
Go ask Alice, when she's ten feet tall

I make mistakes
Just like everybody else
But instead I'm letting go of it
I can't forgive myself

My reflection, dirty mirror
There's no connection to myself
I'm your lover, I'm your zero
I'm in the face of your dreams of glass

I rambled with the worst of them
Fell in love with a Harlequin
Saw the darkest hearts of men
And I saw myself starin' back again
And I saw myself starin' back again

 My God, my God, why have you forsaken me?
   Why are you so far from saving me,
   so far from my cries of anguish?

 My God, I cry out by day, but you do not answer,
   by night, but I find no rest