Author: admin

Why is it you’ve begun to think your life
Is something other, a neighbor you once knew
Muttering at night deep tones of meditation?

(for Debbie) Before the fires the woman across the street whose garden grew from rubble gave us a bouquet of sunflowers the color of flame   A month later ash and smoke rained down waking us to the horrifying fall of colors...

I don’t think of you
when I feel the world
in my pockets;
too often

there is this thing called the american dream a dream of an america in which you work hard hard work and risk taking taking risks sacrificing sacrifice and not by chance chanced nothing in making their mark on the backs of...

this shadow inside my mind-cave
lets out a fleet of demon horses

A plum colored bruise already spreads across one cheek
Eyes, pools of resentment and fire

Just for fun, my nieces pull the wings off Lego airplanes.   “Behave!” I say, reminding them of their mother’s last words before she passed   a box of sparklers around and drove to the mall for a pedicure.   I’m in charge, but...

Regardless of vintage a Two Buck Chuck boogies like a teen at prom. The gustatory cells hula and google like novas and the body waltzes toward evening as ligaments spring to keep up counting “one-two-three   one-two-three.”  Oh...

He rubs his eyes, he is blind –
burdened by insight

In each car’s vestibules Rods with three handles Like egg-beater blades Rise from floor to ceiling   To be quickly utilized; Entering a crowded Métro train, You hold on Or may stumble and fall.   When a person with cheeks...