Ad infinitum.

Beginning with a garden I first experienced Eden. My deepest regret is abandoning those things I wanted Like the blue suede boots, caked with earth in her backseat. "You can throw them away", I lied As if a little mud had ever done me wrong. You're all rib anyway. As any good deed does, life …

The Cave With Two Snow Holes

Flowing down a blustery freeway Larger vehicles pass with care To skate by the small white rocket carving through lanes. She emits a delighted squeal as traction lights blink And the engine revs in all its steamy ambition. Drivers glance at the smoke trail crawling then jumping from a space in the window. The cigarette …

Repressed

I imagine conversations that need to be had that I may Brush arm skin with Sanity. Thus is my state of mind rushing into work, arms laden with gear Grabbed stomping my way towards the front door Clutching tightly my thermos of day old coffee. I feel the cold air, but much less than human. …

Care Instructions for Mona Lisa

When She is watching you, be in your Best manner. Betty Mosher loved a CLown. The real problem with Men, she thought aloud, Just the way they manage Thyme. She laughed at her own Power While I stood ashore across Watching desperately what was to come.

Leftovers

The hour hand slowly approaches a number three Squared by thin, intersecting lines. While most sleep, I fester in yesterday's mess. When many arise, I am far involved with tomorrow. It is good to be alone, I think. I thrive without supervision. The heartbeat of the nocturnal laboratory sounds in muted motors humming steady broken …

Choke

She said she loved me As her claws sank deeper into my collarbones, And she leaned into my eyes To watch me squirm while she let go. "The way of mothers," she coos to a ghost. I mostly avoid corners if I can track a rounded turn Yielding to physics and friction and traffic rules. …

Metronome

The first time I heard her singing Her voice vibrated in my eyes Until my entire body was numb with resonation. Sometimes when I am alone I play that song until I can feel it underneath my ribcage With a pulse so giving I would almost swear She wrote that about us - If only …

Alt.

Sometimes queens change places in the dark Patriotic fluidity under watch of the moon Called always by crisis. Throne to globe, to crust, to core, she extends Projections sometimes recognized To fault the reality of stars. Omniscient cave troll, once beneath a hill -- Take your turn for the worse. Melt me, too, when I …

Turbulence

Violent air rattles the window in a small room. I hear the sky scream your name. Why won't you answer me? I cannot seem to remember how it ended Only the perfect storm that brought us near. There are few pains as heavy as unrequited love. Thick rain plows into the rooftop I wish brought …

Alone is

The space between words I would not fill if I knew it would hurt Where we find cold resolution Not to continue Like a path abandoned for the fallen debris Like a book returned unread for its depth Like a name called but unrecognized Like the last time you looked my way And decided it …