Close Your Eyes, Open Your Mouth!
Producing the possible, from which the impossible reside. Choosing what's just, our minds can't decide. Assuming illusion, procuring...
I've Got Time
With infinite decimals between zero and one. The movement of life like a beat of a drum. An order of spacing in which we perceive. As...
Streetlight Sestina
Oh tell me darling what it was you heard When you heard my voice calling out In the glow of a streetlight in the rain He beckoned to...
Dry
My bones been achin’ Too many pills. Pillows all salt. Won't run dry still. Wait stay. Forget yesterday. I know the leaves won't stick...
The Wendigo and the Incubus
I only wanted to know the taste of your lips Now bits of you are stuck in my teeth –in my bones— In my chest and I can’t get out From the...
Fresh
There’s a rush that swells your chest and suddenly you discover lust in slow motion. My heart is ripe. It’s ruddy I look at you and I...
What it's like to be Human in a Non- Human Form
soul I went to bed muttering something about God, or not a God, or a woman an uncertain self-separation, a soul in the arms of a sea —...
Madre Patria
Madre, that Spanish man was no good. His hands touched what shouldn’t have been touched His tongue forced down your throat. He said you...
Dark Burgundy
Your room was the darkest shade of burgundy Built upon the remnants of an old nursing home The walls were laden with old photographs...
For all the Vagabonds Lost at Sea
I spent the summer on my back, staring at the sea Lying in the sand, grieving with all the other vagabonds I could see Bermuda, I could...