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I don't want anything
The biggest lie ever told is a woman saying she doesn’t want anything. Of course she does - she wants plenty, but doubts that she deserves it.
Ankle
Does the ankle resent the legs, for taking it to the movies? Is it sitting there, bored while the head, neck, shoulders, even that dumb bouffant of hair, bear witness to the lion that Darth Vad...
Thick
I can’t quite grasp the edge of the pool. This fancy vanishing edge pool full of oatmeal. Did I forget something? No… How many things have I forgotten? So many pairs of expectant eyes. Yes was so...
Surveillance?
Passing through my own life un-noticed un-remarked upon quietly doing what is expected, sneaking my fun beyond the brief. But that’s unnecessary, just as there is no need to lock up my thought...
Ferry
Who are you? Are you a string of coincidences? or are you the Minotaur? I watch you, I lose track. And that’s when you sit close. Do you know that you are close? My fancy flies from one to the n...
Potential kinetic equal and opposite
Raindrops make a smack smack sound on my forehead, as I lean into this storm. Watching the smoke that ain’t fire barreling towards me and all that is my world. I won’t surrender. We won’t surren...
Barnes Dance
The green man appears. The chirping that says, “go now.” A hundred people emerge from their corners and head in twelve directions at once. Some are engrossed in conversation, some stare at their ...
This place is perfect
Sneaking through gates to sit on a moonless night on the edge of a ruined volcano, I reflect on the shabby weedy, overgrown patches of my life that I like best. The spots where the fabric is pil...
Wrack Line
Out here, bobbing around the doll which has fallen off the ship; she cannot see where she goes. Her eyes stare up, seared by a pitiless sun. A swell comes, peaks and troughs, peaks and - Her p...
MAGA
Chasing rainbows like they were not illusory. My perspective reigns. Find out they are naught but a vapor, a raincloud for someone else.
Bits
To think: You have enough gravity in you, to keep your very molecules from scattering downwind like Dad’s ashes. Picture that you don’t. Little bits of you take flight as a northwesterly blows o...
when you consider
When you consider your agitated particles escape your body and the universe must supply calm new ones, daily, why should you be afraid to die?
Takararo
That evening in geologic time when we gobbled you up, blasting away kerbstones, filling the bellies of now forgotten ships must have felt like an eternity, and indeed say the olive trees that ...
Poem about the sea land
What is the magic word that will take me across the sea-land? The world is out there, and as the sun sets I could place foot after foot on the shining path atop these rumbling waves beyond the...
Mock
Coltrane was a Mockingbird skippity doo bop tuning though the night ‘Cause a mockingbird’s a jazz bird, endless beginnings beginningless ends twitterpated cacophonistic calisthenics the primeva...
Summer in the desert
This street. This town. An edge of the desert in one corner of America. This state. This country, on the westernmost edge of this world. I live here. I exist amongst alien hibiscus and lawns. Asp...
Flight from Egypt
We take off at dusk. passing Ventura, Lompoc, finding midnight in Santa Maria. We find our bed behind a dark Mexican cantina who leaves us with a pacific wave. Awakening at the publisher’s castl...
Lovely Nevermore
The void of sunshine punctuates my love for you, sweet has-been. The windy departure of small yellow leaves like the emmigration of so many alien hopes signify my promises with you, dear once-w...
Book Description
Poetry, some of it when I was young and dumb, some of it from when I was old and still dumb.
