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If Then Else 6-28-2022
IF cold and damp white mornings together, behind and before a root queen looking for redemption from finding romance in the mundane showering the dime store nation for the motion of your soul like this people are the sum of their biographies THEN how do you press your life onto the page carefully and with […]
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Full Force Fear
I laid bare plaid patterns in full force feathered like a summer snow reaching beyond the ball bearings bringing about a time honored trait sweat and furrowed brow urban blight giving rise to urban flight it registers light and forlorn swigging down whiskey in place of wine brandy is brought to mark the gap between […]
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Edna St. Vincent Millay
I find a memory that the theater burned with all my lips have kissed a savage beauty, larger than life Launching ships to sail on seas of ether drenched strawberries worn and mumbling along the halls of shuddering poets in mourning my tongue is not made of bone, my tongue is not made of air […]
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Flutter Sink
To polish the night In patches of memory hints of a past Fastened like dried fruit A dot of fire swaying around a cinder of string flutter sink sultry sugar crust to polish my skin a rest-bit for temperance passages of power spaceships lines that indicate “lift-off” silver and gold leaf gilding and lilting a […]
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Oscar Wilde I
Paper kites intentionally blank geometry on my fingers a girlhood with three languages “…and you are beautiful in every single way words can’t bring me down‚…” salt and snow in winds of mysteries love comes and goes blessings of a rain that was promised but never came repeating a will to power much softer sounds […]