Poems
We are each forced to write a song For those above, below, and beside us We tamper with the walking line So as not to disturb the dichotomy Of stolen teeth in the whistled speech Of matrimony of tolerant ashes Sober for unclung rationale But we will cling, still clinging And cling to the line […]
Mathematically speaking, you say, Wind turbines exist for soft landing evenings For us to sing dull fairy songs under the rites of night’s passions And collapse in on each other like warm milk to a tyrant. Mathematically speaking, you have said, The heart that wanders, but still does not break, Does not find a home […]
Here, standing pearls without Books of salt-driven love, Goes grocery bicycles And cellar stereos That drift between injury So low, only the bass can hear it.
Orange steams in his hearing A barrage of stellar nurseries Singing tales of obsequy treasuries Ignoring the passage between bread And spoiled cheese, not present But the moment The moment the frog Becomes one with you Is a dream unto the memories of silence What was that like? The memory has faded There is no […]
Character cannot come from art, But art can come from character Art will always come from character That includes bad art It is not even as swift as a work Of the subconscious There is no need to tally such dormant Doorbells with mango juice, top shelf You will always feed on yourself You cannot […]
There was a mouse on the rhythm of the sequestered atmosphere He hid no secrets from his mother, this noble mouse He sheltered under a pit of sand and poison packets he dodged under the house This mouse, was so noble and perfect and wise, he forged his signature On the contract of life I […]
Who decides who lives and dies? We do. All of us. Either through direct action, Or direct inaction, We, each of us, are responsible For the deaths of any other Toil is not matrimony Fevers are not grateful Masters are not manipulative Is it we who share the responsibility Willfully, intentionally, accepting Of those who […]
The last birthday I will see Only slightly surprising Just short of remarkable Midnight on a postage stamp Having spent the day With rum and wine and sleep Repeatedly interrupted But finally, I arrive at the moment’s turning Imposing stature, with no fragrance Or mending of children’s tattering hearts My memory has not left my […]
Sterilization competes with wrong-painted windows That grandmoths gather for ugly pearls Fostering the insight that gave all dynamic direction Of simple tested comradery Like a wastebasket in the muck Washed with torrid swelling lost journals Competing with stolen arguments Intentional arguments, meant to harm, to defeat, to imprison There was a simple, gathering, mule of […]
I went to the moon to ask a question I posed as an agent in red I prospered for all winter meetings Always resting my legs in bed I went to the doorway to avoid the noise Of the indifference, the commotion, and the silent retreat Then when I heard you, you were no longer […]