i was the blind man in the art museum and you were the stranger who sat down beside me and described in the most beautiful way that which i longed to see and i liked your sweet voice so i moved my hand toward yours and you let them touch and we sat there a […]
from my bed, this morn a cold kiss blown, making its way to the vein in your neck, and to the hot blood flowing there, where your heart reaches up for your brain, on blue strings played, to the couplet beat of love
1 Hands strangle cereal Cold white blood trickles down chin Morning ghost breakfast 2 Atomic bombs kill Dissonant music albums Carbon shadows gripe 3 Bodies are trouble Bad stories, stretched out, waiting Bus stops, no buses 4 Japanese painter Organs hanging on streaked wall Colors turn silent 5 Mind retreats to bed Armies attack in […]
1 It was a cold night I put blankets on the dog She burned in the fire 2 Seven sounds of dreams Listening in the silence No one hears but us 3 She runs in the flames Her coat blue, orange, and red I stroke her hot head 4 Her breath seven words Pain, fear, […]
I was beside myself So I called Missa Him outside for a bath She was trusting in the cold long light And the shafts came low across the yard like heralds with shinning shields Afterward, I sat beneath a tree and cried I cried as Missa Him looked into my face But I was not […]
Jan, Aaron, and Duke Sleepless tunnel in the mind Darkness is time sound *** We breathe together Crushed in my hand it bites The grasshopper and I *** I ignored haikus My heart beats so badly now Time to die alone *** Matilda craps smiles Outside the rain falls sideways My mind is collapsed […]
The weather is the only friend I have. I’d like others, but I’m too ashamed of who I am. It’s hard for me to speak, to control my breathing. I end up in a kind of spotlight that freezes me in place, nailed to the boards. Sometimes I’m like a horse at the starting […]
People have changed They no longer lock themselves in the bathroom after a fight They don’t drink with horses in some field on a cold night No more small dinner parties where the man makes a pass at the neighbor’s wife while she helps with the dishes in the kitchen that’s bathed with convenient half-light […]
I wonder when you knew you were sick Not just the normal stuff that followed you around like rags and bones, dry lumps along the road … those friendly enemies, the ones you contemplated after the fact No, a different sort of bug, not a bullet or bomb, not the gaping, frozen forms in the […]
edict injunction wailing freight, rolling thunder, sizzling rain, squawking jay innovate our way out of trouble hang our cloak on the wind give us a fulcrum to move the world indeed, clearly the urge to save humanity can be a false pretense for other urges simple answers to complex problems are mostly wrong and the […]
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