Now Wed November
Another month, I love you:those herringbone eyes,those winks of lacethat stutter the sky and beguile. I was all in your palms then,held fast and humid,perched on a breath,on your low-hilled…
Month: October 2019
Mara – Rendering a Dream
Tobacco tar walls, Resin ceiling, Dun carpet floor – all receding – creased receding to the elevator door – and the doors – the doors – the endless doors repeating.…
Worse Yet in a Vase
Sheathed in a concrete calyx, a flower, a generation folded in upon itself, waits the horrors of the sun. These petals once unfurled, fell upon by hard rains and scorch…
A Brief Tryst Below Cypress
She was a slim volume really, a short read, an afternoon in shades of cypress, conceived on her own costly parchments. She prefaced a day a warning, that if any…
23.5 Degrees
It is not inconceivable some smeared and blind thing, like hail or perhaps some top spun cue ball, maybe some blunt beaked bird wary of our passage, or a bullying…
Light Provides It Time
Do not blame a shadow’s silence nor the bark of the night side tree, lit by a moon now full but still, standing on the dark side we. Light was…
In the Brisk and Soon Forbidding
Apple tree – drip candy from the highest bough. The last robins shit mulberry down. The woolybear wanders the pavements briefly, then recedes, stretched, compressed into a redemption of leaves.…
A Small Treatise on Poesy
Gimme swill, not one for smooth liquors, I cannot fathom velvet. Jigger me a burlap, stir me a drink in low thread counts, course cottons and twill. My throat itches…
Sweet and Bitter Greens 