Koyaanisqatsi, part I.

painted druids
headbanging their ways
to falling debris
red like the sun
dandruff dancing
powder drifting like snow
from the space shuttle
fading to canyons
craters in the sun
devil horns form
in the panning red line
valley stretching
river running
over the edge of the world
waves rolling through the
shadowed giants
humming their way
rifts and ridges
down through the hole of Mother Earth
the abundant architecture--
an experiment in the anatomy
protruding up from the plain
pillars competing for fame
The battle ship trapped
a Monty Python laugh
between the lines
of water winding
its way through
the plot
A dot of mist rising off the
crash of the master
making waves through solid matter
What's the matter?
Never seen a fingerprint before?
Do you see the tie dye?
The clouds bleeding like bullets
over the dusk below
rising like the plague
repeating again
as the grandfather smiles
in the background?
single flower, misty cave
the wings flutter in the
monarchy of sunlight
Fear fading to perfect skies
rolling like waves
dissolving in midair
pillars of pillows
for childhood bears and dreams
movie scenes
playing themselves out in nature
Stop to savor the pouring of a mile of water
turning to a sea of static
playing gravity and moonbeams
flying up like fire
pulling the pirate under
below the glittering
sequins and sapphires
crashing against the mountainous shore
sliding down the slope back to bay
falling like prey over Scottish hills
airstream winding its way down the
fjord-- icebergs turning to
Holland tulip gardens
a patchwork quilt
and what of an island we
hear as a battlehorn
becoming a billowing
army of 6s
putting us in fixes of
visionless night
blocking light
becoming machines
before
our very eyes
Miles of pipe bleeding oil
over the Alaskan skyline
Power lines
metal giants waging war in
lines kitty cat faces
squinting.
These mirrors of the sky
shattered in corresponding pieces
held back by the ball and chain
Mushroom turning to budding rose
pointing arrow, jellyfish,
artichoke
fist held mushroom in the sky of
bikini island
taking fall to nuclear power
tourists staring at silver etchings
heat wave duplicating
pages
bleeding from the nose
becoming a playful Pluto in profile
set to blink at any moment
traffic writing letters
S.O.S. in its pattern
clover leaves
tin like legos
jutting knife blades
walls of windows upon themselves
digital clouds crowning the sky king.
building sliding like a pirate ship
people clearing in and out
waiting in line in clusters of color.
symbolism.
the same man comes back
for more
cowboy hat in the fifth row
car clogging arteries
cholesterol shifting rubber
from magic to Main.