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PoetryTic-Toc
I have heard people say they think in shapes and some in colours and one time a guy told me he thinks in hurricanes…
PoetryBanishing Rain
In memory of N. "Rain" Dailey, Salem, Massachusetts, 1998 I light a photograph on fire, toss it to the outgoing winter tide; flames char…
Poetryhaiku’ish
pebbles in this stream once wild & sharp-tongued, now a shining example of obedience, conformity
PoetryAN OCEAN OF GOODBYE
there are dark waves all I have to do is jump in them and I’ll disappear forever I won’t drown I won’t get washed…
Poetrythere is a falling in every direction
letting go of your hand I fell into the night sky high above the streetlight where you stood I did not beg you but…
PoetryFebruary
This is the time that cannot decide, a penumbra of seasons where everything hovers between either and or, string lights and marigolds, and no…
PoetryAll my bent metal
A trailblazer over brown hairs a thin cut from old razor legs smooth out by lotion by rain by running in the rain by…
PoetryNear-omnipotent
Lately, each experience feels uncommon. Living in one room with a pot-bellied stove, a wooden crate for a bookcase, a rug of woven rags,…
PoetryGive me that secret sauce
to a heart attack, that greasy, salty hunk of heaven. Oh, lowly worker, be my savior. Bring me a box, a bag, a promise…
Art, Poetry.harbor.
write of parlay we chatted over manners and harbored edges. these things … moved the line into a place of rural contemplation.
Poetrymystique
blasée, the feminine rolls her hidden eye— he marvels at the width and breadth of the mystery; he is her ripened fruit, fallen into…
PoetryA poet bequeaths a poem
I would give you my fortune if I had one. Until then these rocks in my head are yours. For example, this one.