Drowning spectacle
Spare me from resuscitation. I'm not equipped to take in air that threatens my encumbered view with erudition of a keener point, that stabs me…
Calypso’s altar
He had a dashboard Jesus who he named Calypso, and he doodled lines in ballpoint pen between the pleats of Calypso's robe while he sat…
Trust that I will steal you
Trust that what I steal from you is nothing consequential. Trust I rightly am the perfect person that I claim. Find in me a place…
Words eroding
It's as if I'm always walking on the edge of words eroding, waiting at the precipice where language falls away to push another phrase and…
Her garden
It's not the raven's song that breaks her, but the epitaph its feathers write in shadows on the flowerbeds she grows, the prayer beneath its…
Too much traffic
Too many fissures In the road to Fill today, and One too many Shovel loads Already on my back. - Too much rain Or too…
Apropros of something
I find convictions in the vacant space enclosed by curves of question marks, draw conclusions in the hollow underneath a semicolon where the independent clauses…
Choice of bikes
It was summer, and the heat rose up in glassy waves above the street in front of Tommy's house. The field across from us was…
Someone
Sometimes I can laugh at the imposters. Sometimes I take the gnashing teeth in stride. Sometimes I let the venom in the wound Inebriate me…
Until we fall
Until we all fall down exhausted, until we all collapse a wasted mess of promises forsaken, of beliefs invalidated in and by the span of…
