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I. There was a woman Who I loved with all my heart. It’s the only way I know how to love. The problem I have With falling in love Is that I just keep falling And falling on through. It’s a perpetual autumn; Storming leaves of memories, Possibilities, Skeletal trees. And turning my collar up [...]

Leaded Skies

Wrench me from this zombie state Use power tools if that will help I want to sleep as soon as I wake The wake next moment by doggy yelp. This oily film suffused my eyes And cannot be washed away today Something matching these leaded skies Draining hues turns all I see to grey.

Far Reaching Visions

Inside, a glowing silver sliver A secret, a blossom. Hush now, stop grinning madly. Cup it, feel it, close your eyes; Potential beading like dew On electric arms reaching. Promises made to be kept Keeping on, sparks flying, We reforge the sword With breath and sound, Far reaching vision, Laughter and love. Wave aside the [...]

Firm

I am hungry for a firm bosom On which to lay my head, close my eyes And hear that everything’s gonna be alright. Careening towards conclusion And new beginning: new days, New nights of excess by my lonesome., All populated by my skewered imagination, Made real by isolation, Made flesh by selecting Sentiment on vinyl [...]

Floodgate

Closing my eyes against this real light, I see warm red through my eyelids And if I stretch my hand out blind like this I can imagine caressing your face, Turning your chin up to taste your full lips And the salt tang of the sea That has faerie dusted them. Hanging out in trees [...]

Bite Your Lip

When you smile, And when you bite your lip and sigh, Your eyes searching for mine Looking for some sign That all the while I have had you in my heart. That’s when time Rushes in like waves of the same moment, Like I was on one of my old trips; I press my finger [...]

Stays the Same

You don’t know what you’ve done Wrecked the car by going too fast And I along for the ride Get the lash of blame Because I pumped the gas. Your shirt has come undone These windows are steamed from the inside Oh? What? This stupid game That can’t survive the morning sun; Now just memories [...]

Her Own Time

Sleep is coming in her own time. Soon, but not right now. I hear her footsteps in the courtyard And smell her in the still air. Sometimes my words fail me; I can’t think, and my poetry sucks. But keep trying, trying, trying From my blanket-swaddled lair. Preceded by gifts of yawns Tearing up my [...]

Side Trip of Hyperspace

I am small again: Smell of closets, scuttle of spider; Withdrawing as the fat withers from my mind. Rediscovering someone vaguely familiar Only from the corners of my eyes In old photographs Or in passionately scribbled lines. In this transition, Is it supposed to endure Or is it supposed to break? Phoenix, do you hurt [...]

Soshial Obligashuns

Damned to be a husband I rebel As all others before me, more or less: Within the strict limits Of my integrity and commitment. Get the fuck out of my poetry journal! Consistency and constantly aware Of this yoke of woman, A noose of responsibility to sosh thrills And pinky-finger parties. Obligations that are a [...]

For Dawn Again

Forever I wanted to please you, Hold you and keep your eyes and halo bright. I am shy of you now; Unimaginably wretched when in your sight. I shall never love another like you. There is nothing to turn my heart away. And so this hurts the most; That I was not able to keep [...]

Thee Angelkitten

A purring song of liquid honey Angelkitten, Burnished golden metallic wings, Diamond-bright dinky halo and Those kitten-soft feet to mommy-paw Your eyes shut at sleepytime, Hunting your hair, As the wind from the waves of her home, Corner-of-your-eye cat-quick paranoid spirit Of Cleopatra Mykelti kittenator flatulator, Calling-cards framing those other cats, Wrestling with an orange [...]

Mute

I wish that I was mute So that I could learn to listen. Then my eyes could fill With the tears of untold secrets, And my pen could carve These feminine curves of poetry Into Goddesses like you.

Realized

Three nights I have lain awake Storming through half-sleep dreams And possibilities, thoughts, Mental magical carpets, Half real, half realized; Doors half opened and swinging Smooth computers peripherally Analyzing and verifying Believing yet incredulous Of the panoramic impossibility. The stark lightning of imagination Energized and rampantly naked; Leaping obstacles with merry, nimble feet Barely touching [...]

Hang On to the Rope

I wish I could string and sell These beads of sweat; They keep dripping in my eyes And leaping From the tip of my nose. I can’t stop pulling on this rope – The mine car can’t slip any further Down those tracks. I don’t know why I took this job But it’s a challenge [...]

Horse

There seems to be a certain point where a great deal of intelligence becomes a stallion too strong, or wild to train, to ride. Madmen have become so smart that their brains have snapped: the reins have cracked, and they cannot let go, or get off. Simple people are said to be happy – their [...]

Introducing the Muse

I wonder, as the Poet, if you care what I say here; these words may only be patterns or statistics to you. The appreciation is when organs move – some passing of spirit through your flesh, a Magick spell which, uttered, or even read, evokes a thump on the heart-drum or a tangle of the [...]

THIS BRIGHT LIGHT

Ah, this bright light – I was a closet Vampyre, dancing on cardboard tombstones with flexible skeletons who beat chopsticks on overturned Folger’s coffee cans – it shrivels the flesh and weakens the bones. I’ve heard of the process of aging before, from people older than I (that was all that mattered back then), but [...]

And How

And how does the world bludgeon me daily. Sanctuary with my door locked and my heater blaring. The smell of burnt dust clings to my jackets on the coat rack. I hear my exteriority shatter with the tumble of the deadbolt. Ignoring the intrusion of phone bill, electric bill, auto insurance bill, CD club bill [...]

For Your Majesty

I I can imagine a perfect spot to have a picnic with you today; the sky is a wee bit grey at the edges – I caught as many clouds as I could with my butterfly net (I came in wet early this morning from the rain-dew on the unmown grass stems). II I’ve found [...]

Treaty

I’ve hated myself for so long for other people other opinions, other lives: here goes my hair – look in the mirror, watch your steely blue eyes wink: lighthouses to steer ships by. Bring them home. Home is the sailor, home from the sea, and the hunter, home from the hill. home to your heart. [...]

Something I Haven’t Quite Finished Yet

To the hip-hop rhythm of my break-beat bounce I sing sun stars surf stoopid something amounts To a funky fresh freestyle flowing fast and far from the breakers to the speakers in the trunk of your car. I get a little sparkle like the wind in my eye When the sun is shining steady from [...]

Sunflowers

as the heart withers like a cut rose, days old, the adult in me grows stronger, builds the muscles I wear like a bear hide, wears the callouses on my dirty-nailed hands. so stands the brown and broken-necked sunflowers, seeds pecked out like eyes by the crows of these grey skies, so stand I, roots [...]

The Flavor of My Fault

Again on the wings of happiness, Again from the one I love. How much forcing, to and fro Does it take to let it go? And you’ll read this, And you’ll roll your eyes, Sigh and express your disgust At my behavior. Flavor it with examples; Our life is rife with my fault. Sometimes I [...]

For Dawn

I know I could live without you here, but it wouldn’t be something I’d choose. My bed is empty; I’m tired and lonely, my blankets worn like the soles of shoes. I miss you madly, your cotton kisses, your blushing smile, and sea-blue eyes. Only when you return to love me will I enjoy these [...]