A store in a home and a reminder of space affixed to boxes of plastic and malleable mind finds a shore unkempt in a plait of cotton, turned to snakeskin.Suppurating on the taste of frozen leaves I was more child … Continue reading Avocado Tresses
Just moments of ibises walking in fields of light and everything became a cordon of memory She emptied the room before she was ousted a Criminal. And high walled gardens held me as final larches that refuse to settle and … Continue reading Corridor of Beech
You missed a button, I saw a nipple and it’s true, I didn’t look away Could’ve stared at it all day Ice Cream Hands, Nipple What if I’m sitting at the edge of the local swimming pool watching my boys … Continue reading Overdue and Cold Water
Mine own selfish sadness has some price I lost in a depth beyond words. And the scudding trees are an echo of a red falcon, lost in the hearth. Nervous I burnished steel rails, and thought her hair a meadow. … Continue reading Red Falcon
These are my footsteps above seas within hedgerows of glass eroded and peeling like a flashing lightSometimes there’s snow. Continue reading (Non)Verbal
When was the first time you really felt like a grown up (if ever)? Not the way skates tore through my eyes To bring sunscreen tears to light And I knew sadness by the samurai sand Went looking for monsters … Continue reading Unreachable, an Island
Crickets as a verb, playing make believe frogs. And the unending plush scent of lawnmowers at evensong. Walking back in time and an Old Man is alive in a valley field. Tweezers and five shades of green visitations Hoppy, Skippy … Continue reading All of the light…
Your life without a computer: what does it look like? Tore sand and light into a cavern Where the ghosts of lost pleasure Found their way into thought I cannot be wandering these vines As though all this artifice Was … Continue reading A Loss by Oaks
Dropped rhythms and a wasp In my mouth The shape of fetters in the forest And faced with purple wool hair Nothing happened No matter wherever these hands wandered Sterile beats and laughter from Him Handsome and unknown I would … Continue reading Wasp in my Mouth
I read my children poems and purpose as we gather together in the big bed. I rail against the abstruse form of the youthful poet my students are given to study by their well meaning other teachers. I progress my … Continue reading Stars come to Life
These clotted floors sway as the feet that penitential held two forms. The Dauphin of a rule to meet on pain of death, by insane stormsThat penitent’s shell held. To forms of whitecaps sizing up the sky on panes oft’ … Continue reading HundertWasser Pantoum
Share a lesson you wish you had learned earlier in life. How fast we sail, we clouds Untethered in the slipstream Marking a place in many waters We barely marked in a haste Felt too keenly as my pendulum Becomes … Continue reading Slipstream Clouds
What are your favorite types of foods? We lay giddy in the wake Of a trillion lava blessed drupes That tear the mouth into subservient grace Before seeking the metallic odor That hovers in the trees Blessed by sunlight, fed … Continue reading Fruit of the Sky
Render me aghast, at this subtle store Of ragged pinion, tamed the weeping dawn Broke treaties with the bonsai breath of more Guesswork than deserved, I your knighted pawn Will flounder on this lawn, your minion. Told spaces of mistrust … Continue reading Bonsai Breath of More
“If you want to build a ship, don’t drum up the men to gather wood, divide the work, and give orders. Instead, teach them to yearn for the vast and endless sea.” Antoine de Saint-Exupéry 2015, Lower Austria In thirty … Continue reading The Space between Time
Blaze of Obscurity 