now we are just passengers
at best something, a shadow, comes within grasp
the music continues to play
on the rails the wagon proceeds
meditation had been such...
flyaway umbrella
upside down
fills
with rainwater
frogs
move in
mosquitos
for dinner
tadpoles ensue
hop away
pool dries up
umbrella skeleton
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PUN-pcmhd8w
I can't call you Paul. I'm on my sickbed. and when I'm not there I get up and wander the night with my phone...
thankyou and say it is only temporary
balanced or tied with string
though overnight decided to use the glue gun
I listen for context,
willing myself to make out
the space between
that one phrase I caught
and the air
trapped behind it.
I know the words
are all there as...
Daniel J. Flore III
marked himself safe
from himself
was it during an evening walk
in contemplation of the sinking sun
that its illusion whispered sex burn destroy
or during all of winter and spring
did you...
On the day
my father
was buried
it didn’t rain
and
a friend
of my brother’s
used up
all the tears
I couldn’t shed
so I became
an umbrella
for the
downpour
flowing
down his
chubby face
I noticed
how crooked
his teeth
had...
I have a hunch
about this course of angsty little scenarios
some over which I have no control
but could better handle tra-la
Others I relinquished
to my idiot...
I
was
sensitive
but
they
pulled
the
petals
off
one
at
a
time
now
I
am
a
naked
madman
just
standing
there
whether we write a poem
or pull a trigger
we all go on daily
flushing our piss into the earth
like to be quiet, speaking
only
when you asked the question.
not sure why i came.
i think you invited me?
My neighbor Bill wanted me to meet some of his friends.
I was a little apprehensive because I thought they might
be part of a religious...
recycled on a garage floor,
the six months before you almost
had a handle on.
It’s not telling anyone.
Rewashing everything
on the bottom layer
when twice a year without...
how many
times must
the seasons
change before
they get it right?
life in suburbia,
where the dogs sniff the grass
and sniff again
and the men of the households on their riding mowers
shave perfectly straight lines
in the perfectly...
there is a dusty old box
in the back of my mind crumpled and damaged
from all the things piled on top of it
sitting alone in...
Stop the push.
Go and look.
Outside
flapper girls flaunt their street gold.
They know nothing of decay
of hanging on, see J. this tree
it's a jazz festival.
And once...
yet when
she said my friend looked pretty
&
that I smelled nice
I sagged a little.
later that day
i found a message
request
from a soldier in the usa
holding a...
There is no proof that William Carlos Williams time traveled
back to 399 BC to ease Socrates’ painful death from hemlock
but when amateur archaeologists found...
Her 1st thought on arrival was she wouldn’t be staying.
Now on the 4th day of her 3rd month she is comfortable
putting her tongue on...
while out on a longer walk,
met him and he explained to me,
about walking there and back again
I removed my towel
and wiped away the fog
to check the progress of lines
on my newly shaven face,
but things turned metaphysical
and I asked why I...
She is thick-bodied and heavy-boned
a fleshy peach-of-a-gal
whose tugboat frame nudges
and pushes until things move
in a positive direction.
So no big surprise she is tied
to a...
Halloween was a non-event
maybe it was because I closed the blinds
and turned off the porch light
I didn’t have any candy
being afraid of the demon...
duck egg blue
the ironmongers in town
at three seventy-nine
we can walk there and back or there
and bus back you see
Sometimes the cat
is just an avocado branch
scratching against the side wall
in an early evening breeze.
we camped out in a friend’s backyard
surrounded by nothing but cornfields
and neighboring yards that stretched for miles
a bonfire lit the pitch-black sky the night...
Escaping their dictionary prison
the words fall
scattered on the floor
Finding old friends
in the lines of a poem
their new prism
They are cats lying in the sun
Waiting...
You're the poison
I'd rather not
Seek an antidote for
Every pill
That kills the cells
In my veins pains
But I'd rather risk myself
And have you
Than be sick and...
small village, mayhap a hamlet, named,
one forgets the rules with all that has happened.
nice to be out, to see the neighbors’ houses,
to see what...
The hammock is hung
between aspen and oak
which means one day logic
will flutter its pretty fingers
and fall on its head. Our rescue
dog sleeps nose to...
I’m floating on an inner tube
in the middle of Lake Erie
miles away from the shore
where no man should be floating on an inner tube
but...
Ancient Rome became like that alligator
with its mouth open wide, swinging
east and west at a pack of lions
surrounding it near waters.
How long can you...
deciding to get started
I left the destination
arriving
when it all looked familiar
but, this time, recognizing
everything I missed
a dear friend
recently died
unexpectedly
voluntarily
taking with him
some of our pain
and most of
the answers
leaving us with
all the grief
the
night
is
wide
open
legs
a
woman
on
the
bed
with
tarantula
calves
a
wine
bottle
on
the
dresser
with
your
conscience
Oh, the silliness continues, the messages keep coming, and the receiver keeps reading them, and reading stories written long ago
A shop in a neighborhood,...
I wrote and wrote prolifically —
But what’s a girl to do
While sitting in her room all day
When visitors are few.
Because I felt compelled to...
my mom looks at me
like "what do I do?'
I am only 11 years old
my mom-
fun as a bag of Doritos
I give her advice
it exhausts...
"Today 1% of the world is a barely livable hot zone.
By 2070 that portion could go up to 19%.
Billions of people call these lands home....
Old tree is barking at the moon
Squirrel is telling a tail of balance
Fence is fighting off the neighbors
Streetlights are glowering at the dark
Fire is...
I loved you, you know.
Never mind that I was nine
years old and couldn't get
on by myself. Never mind
the velvet hat that flew
off, the long...
At the funeral I do not want to be the one in the coffin.
I will surround myself with flowers,
go to a meadow
& lie down...
if you take the 101 west,
out past canoga park
round the bend
past the sign
Pepperdine
you can literally smell
the $$$
the desperation
of sick people
not the people who are...
Mom asked
if I could bring her
a few things.
I said maybe.
“I just want
some Hostess fruit pies,” she said.
“Apple.
And berry.”
I heard the crackle
of her cigarette
in the...
It’s quite comforting to know that I wake up on 100% of the days that I’m alive
and odds of fighting for yet another day
are...
Monochrome greens recede
like the shorter day
into a longer night
for a pageant of pigments
on a runway sashay
down a fall fashion stage.
The finale
a strip tease cabaret
dropping...
slide down rosewood
creaks behind the song
solo mandolin
the slot allows you to see the next roll for free
sometimes that next roll is a winner
but you gotta sit there like a crackhead
so...
sorting over the bones
that had meaning when
flesh was on them
flesh is long gone now
meaning remains
the back road was
littered, rather blustery.
today
clouds blow in, leaves
crake and groan.
i say again, a darker hue
she is sitting 5 feet away in her wheelchair,
back to me as always
she says often,
“Oh well, it’s not like I’m going anywhere.”
she tells someone,...
rice falls
like confetti
from my fork
lands
on the table
the plate
the floor.
I wander
through rooms
going nowhere
wait for the meds
to kick in.
I’m shaking
confused
repeat the same words
as a prayer
this is...
Praise Sammy Tepper with the fiery red hair—scapegoat for bullies who taunt and tease to hear him squeal. Praise Etsio Goloni, Gas-station Joe, for...
You think you are in control of your reality
But whatever you have done
Is remembered differently
By those who saw it
It’s not what you did
It’s what...
Open Arts Press, LLC is pleased to announce the publication of Daniel F. Flore’s “Homeless Poems,” a self-printable trifold broadside containing a collection of...
damn not again
this improved wax
from killer bees
was not supposed
to liquify as easily
but i can see now
i’d flown
closer to the sun
once again
happy-go-luckiless
my feathery fall
more dramatic
gone...
Human me-ing
lets ego drive.
Human be-ing
lets what-happens drive
with ego
in the passenger seat
gaping out the window.
What’s happening to you, my dearest? Tell me
why your streets are lately full of blood. Yesterday afternoon
rain washed it away from a sidewalk and...
we did not grow up with buttercups and daisies,
delphinium cascading the landscape
of some palatial estate
we had pachysandra
and a burned out tree on the side of...
It’s not so much
that I have changed
as how much I
am rearranged.
I would not have chosen
to fall in love.
She told me her heart
was mine whether...
letters of words
expressed—
pixels of a thought's
photograph
Summer slowly succumbs
to its fate of allotted days;
its strong bond with the sun
waning ever so politely
with some days of warmth
still gifted, as though
they were...
Our little brown dog,
in his final years,
whimpers for help
to get onto the couch.
My wife picks him up
with a mother’s compassion,
rubs his tired bones
and flea...
This started as my college project in the late 2021. It was a difficult time for me to learn a whole new technics. This...
Stroke began process;
prostate cancer
finished the job.
Now I recline
home hospital bed,
scattering truffled wisdom—
buried but pungent
for those with the nose.
Dig; uncover bon mot;
share with others.
Learn by...
asked me who will be afraid of our ghosts
ghosts of humans
when we are gone
Strange Things at Very Low Temperatures by Zed-Point
I've said goodbye a thousand times before
we are right in the middle of your sadness
I've said goodbye a thousand times before
we are right in...
She had scoliosis which left her with one hip at 2:15
and one hip at 2:35,
one a summit, one a foothill.
No one talked about her...
Five years after
she walked out,
leaving me behind
with a drunk dad
and no way to reach her,
Mom called,
not to see
how I was doing,
but to see
if I’d...
I have a bird in
my heart too.
I realized it in 2004
when your poem
came across my desk
in the form of an assignment.
I’ve often wondered
how you...
her voice low on the phone,
she tells me
about trying to die.
I squeeze the phone
try to block out
what I hear
she’s sobbing
I let her cry
tell her...
The children flew
and snow-hush fell
upon stone
and of a morning
the soft tattoo
of feet on felt
froze
pitter-patter meaning.
He bends and raises
replicas,
remembrance
of past faces
shovels, brushes,
signatures
December’s
masterpieces.
The dead leaves on wet grass
have no memory of the wind
that blew them there
or anything else they endured
As the broken cow skull
looking down with...
Black tea cools,
bitter cup;
sun sets
soon;
little lemon wedge
drowned at the bottom,
sunken yellow crescent,
solemn, sour moon.
With eyes closed I see snapshots.
Flipped in chronological order
I see myself changing. It’s all
black and white but I wish
it was color, imagine
blue sky and...
you know those people who come around,
give you free drinks,
well one lady's dreadlocks latched onto me,
spiraled around my leg like a snake,
pulled me outta...
Their smiles
are bleached
from the photo
baked brown.
They escaped
from the homelands
that wanted
them gone,
erased, dead,
forgotten.
A soundless escape,
taking only
the disruption
that clung
to their skin.
Their absence
displaced the air,
replaced it with
ocean...
back in the early
days of the plague
I drank Coronas
in protest of the virus
my wife and I
were told we
would have a
quarantine baby
I wore a George
Washington...
he ate pork skins
with hot sauce
on the sagging brown sofa,
drinking beer from a can,
watching NASCAR
in faded blue shorts
and a wife-beater T,
yelling
to cheer on
the young...
My father once threw
a bottle of ketchup
at my mom’s head,
then a fork
that stuck
in tainted wallpaper
until the hot dog
he hurtled next
knocked it off.
I thought all...
i believe in little gods
who gather at doors and windows
looking in
waiting for a gap in
each entrance, a portal
festooned with trinkets and
amulets offering safe
passage or...
white collared loons
question existence
claim enough faith
to tip toe on water.
fog clings to the shore
smothers reeds
remnants of fire
smoldering tinder.
a wooden boat
drifts in a circle
I mumble...
Shattered bottle
on sidewalk;
city birds
ingest diamonds.
this one ended up sounding softer. i think it was the keyboard player i was working with. his chords were kind of rich sounding,...
in the interest of full disclosure
striving for transparent honest
searching for beauty and its
friend with privileges truth
disclosing the process a
dangling sentence fitted with
dangling phrases glued...
I was thinking about Bukowski the other day
while taking a shit. I used a week old Merlot
as mouthwash while waiting.
I stood up with my...
This is the process of my painting. I start my work like this. This is how I gradually move forward.
—RamyaSadasivam
https://ramyasadasivam.com/realistic-face-drawing/
“Truth forever on the scaffold, Wrong forever on the throne...” —James Russel Lowell
We are all mourners now, our clothes
funeral shrouds we tear off our...
do we describe what we see or maybe
tell the tale inside
round the corner on the wall
are the bullet holes
Trees listen to the quaking of all other trees
I know this because my tree told me its secret
it knew I was listening too
It hears...
Sara’s real father,
while drunk on wine
& ebony thighs,
jumped ship
in the Mediterranean
during the winter of ’54
& started a second family
with an olive toned
Greek girl in...
Released on 09 April 2022. 12 track album. Credits: Co-producer - @Roger Fizzerton. All guitar, bass, keyboards, lyrics and vocals .. myself. I hope you enjoy —Jenn Zed
I have plans...
https://soundcloud.com/skaadee/doctor-rife-16
In class I sat
with a Loreley with goldenes hair.
At five she told K.:
"Our sandbox is full of witches' teeth."
K. talks about that till this...
one had stringy long hair
he drove with bare feet
and once came over to see
Charlie and the Chocolate Factory
he laid on the bed as we...
tip toe tread
bone crunch chime
eggshell dread
all the time
Listen I don't care if you're unreliable and obsessed
the bad has to go somewhere I've dodgy perspective and since I
virtue rescued again this week...
I don’t want to be numb.
Crying, screaming, pleading-
for-their-barely-begun-lives
little kids bleeding out,
shot to death
in supposed safe places
where they go to learn
how to behave
in a fictitious...
Last time you arrived
at the airport
I came drunk to pick you up
fringed jacket
ripped jeans biker boots
some beat
this time please take a cab
I don't drive at...
https://soundcloud.com/tater/just-let-me-bleed
Had to bite my tongue, swallow my pride
Tryin’ to keep you, satisfied
There ain’t no need, to sugar coat
That bitter little pill, you shovin’ down...
* Be an asshole (they're interesting).
* Spill a drink on the page.
* Eat shit for breakfast. Write about it by dinner.
* Waste some words...
he said
no fisting friday
gotta keep that pussy
in top shape—
long weekend ahead
baby
girl
middle of the night
again at dawn
his toes seek my shin
under the covers
making sure i...
He helps me to pronounce Anne Hedge and calls me kid—that old
Casablanca dream.
He has a lot of women who love him: his sisters, his...
All night while the rain fell
you turned the words over in silence
The wet grass did not know
your brother was asleep across the room
You smelled...
his poems
from his phone,
standing there,
hunched over the microphone,
needy,
expectant...
the crowd,
such as it was,
not even listening,
bent over
their own papers and phones,
hoping
against hope
for their own 3 minutes
of...
Pencil, Japanese drawing ink, watercolour paint, coloured acrylic ink, acrylic paint, Hydrus Watercolour Ink, graphic ink pen, on Strathmore 500 Series Illustration Board for...
Hoi An Ancient Town is an exceptionally well-preserved example of a South-East Asian trading port dating from the 15th to the 19th century. The...
Our son gifted us Roku
& his Netflix password.
Now Connie & I binge
every night from 7 until 2 a.m.,
watching murder mysteries
that disturb our dreams.
Two scenes...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yMrTAVl5aXI
How much of my colon
did you cut out, doc?
The distance
between his two index fingers
the last trout I caught
in a northern Arizona lake.
This morning I walked past
your tree and told you after
36 years they are paving the road
in front of your house. In the place
you now...
Oil on canvas
24 x 18 inches
fuck these
text messages
i wanna hear
i wanna hear
the daffodil
in your voice
i wanna hear it
when you cry
you can’t cry
with your
thumbs
ding
these
texts
come in
ding dong dang
the silent
conversation
I can’t hear
a...
said he would need an hour and a half
so I counted time by the 3 minute
easy-listening songs
they play in an attempt
to ease me
between the...
I buy my own groceries,
fix my own meals, wash
my dirty dishes: what more
could a woman want?
She might want a stiff erection,
that's what: something I...
44
and I don’t
want anymore
I will
breathe in
the saltwater air
and know I
don’t have to go anywhere
I’ll have another piece of cake
lay down
and let my birth to...
Everybody writes about you,
even me. I told you about
my hedges: they're
perfect.
How does a privileged white boy
who doesn't even drink
relate to you
as a person?
I don't....
Because the season is over
and surmise settles into
his autumn confinement,
I ask him what he imagines
could improve these last days.
He asks me for
a Phillies ball...
I have a wound in me from you
and I can't tell you about it,
I can't talk about it, I can't
mention it. Only write a...
The first years of their exile,
tell the children about unheated train stations,
the bravery of mothers breathing warmth
on tiny fingers.
Later will be time to describe...
Who could forget the butchers
of Leningrad
as the mighty Wehrmacht
blockaded the city
laying siege for 872 days and nights
No way to know
whether the German OKW imagined
Stalin’s decree,...
I'm standing in a barren garden with Tolstoy, with Chekhov,
and they are frozen in place, like stricken roses of January,
like whipped horses, scarred into...
There are so many ways to say it:
on the verge
on the cusp
on the precipice
on the brink
of catastrophe, apocalypse, war.
Then war breaks out
and we see...
Here is my new (July 2021) album posted on Bandcamp .. the album is free to listen to, download, and keep, as you like...I...
She left me for another man
This one she thought she’d keep
Two beers down to drown her out
One shot of whiskey deep
She smashed the lights...
I woke up this morning in Texas, and all I can think of is driving further, on to the coast of California, to golden...
Growing up in Phoenix
I thought exhaust fans
in other people’s bathrooms
were put there to remove
the smells
& I asked my dad why
we didn’t have exhaust
fans &...
The solitude of widowhood, they think,
is pyre that never bows then dies, a night
of vigils, stretched-out sighs, a lisp to air,
a sudden twitch of...
Sojuz Šrek Párty is my new album.
Sojuz Šrek Párty refers to Ašrotmáš. Ašrotmáš refers to anything, so it also refers to this album. Find...
My father told me if I wanted to catch fish I had to think like a fish except he said it with an r like frish...
It seems inconceivable,
reading on a couch on a Sunday afternoon,
that one day I’ll die
and my decades of warmth will release
back into the sky’s body
and...
the fish dances around the cat’s sternum
shakes ribs with its five-pronged fins
not an animated gill out of place
I turn off the TV
it’s raining outside...
I sit here, nowhere
a place i was born in but
it has changed
and i am a stranger now, somewhere
i try
to recognize but i can't.
reading the...
my testosterone has been chopped
medically castrated by injection last week
in prep for radiation treatments
I couldn't hold my water today and had to scrap today's...
Last night I went down to the lake but the sky was what I really went for, so last night I went down to...
Always, there are voices that come,
unchecked
as the sound of water, lapping
in the stone basin of the night fountain
Some magnanimous, as the sound
of father digging...
Buying this ample ranch house in the country,
I dreamed I could rescue you, my husband,
from the nursing home where I couldn’t visit you
because...
I am a cupbearer, offering my better half her morning
mug of coffee. She asks, Why is your face sad today?
I cannot take all of her...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JCCXspvxP_E
Wherever you are,
in whatever room
of whatever house
of whatever's left
of whatever life
you may possess,
imagine that room,
that house, that life
in the middle of a ship
in the...
dig a hole
crawl in
pretend that
the world is fine
repeat
as needed
Stuart died.
It happened at our book club.
Vinyl Café had been off the air for a few years
but seemed like a fresh memory.
Then someone mentioned...
I prefer to wander,
not stay confined
when science says
it’s OK to venture.
But then I stumble
finding a man, half-dead,
ensconced in a rusted truck,
his fingers curled, necrotic,
his...
A five year old stuck in no-child's land between
The hospital and the duck.
The hospital had my mother,
The duck had me.
Once bitten
It was so hard...
I want a larger territory
than a screen and two fingers allow.
Give me maps
impossible to fold back correctly.
It would not frustrate me
that they never sit...
.
more than ever
i need an enema
or an island of my own
the general public
can no longer determine
squirm from quake
and
i won't go back
to hanging tears
on the...
My first poetry book is now available on Amazon from Dead Man's Press Ink!
I am so excited to share a collection of my poetry...
"Where is the end of the line?"
The concept of the EP is a cut and transcribed part of the original voice recording I recorded...
Holy man,
with a common farmer tan,
I watch your metamorphosis into god.
An exhibitionistic affair
I am your favorite voyeur.
Eyeball plastered
to the Sacristy peep hole.
Disrobe, pose and...
Fragrant grasses that covered me.
Packed earth by fire, tending.
Slow walk with an aging dog,
morning or twilight, it is the same.
Open window, girl practicing violin,
notes...
We used to cut through, hop fences, slide sideways through hedges, making the distance between our houses a two minute steeplechase.
Ours was a 1960s...
I won’t wear the KN95 knock-offs
I ordered from Amazon, the horizontal seam
like a duck’s bill. Imagine the waitress,
straight-faced, asking, “want quackers with that?”
Or you...
Space Hydrogel
Nurse inserts lifts
to hold up my calves.
Stirrups, I think to myself:
this must be
what it's like.
Oncologist appears
between my legs; I crack a joke.
Doctor looks...
When the Doc gave me the results from the biopsy and the "options" available I told him I needed a couple of days to...
From the band's latest album. Follow them on any major streaming service.
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When she
spreads butter
across toast
she’ll find herself
thinking of jumping
out of a window
paranoid thoughts
fears certain foods
her Nan’s boyfriend
molested her
until she was 9
when he had
the common sense
to...
How did you answer, when your friends asked,
Who was she?
"Someone who meant a lot to me once.
But that was a long time ago,
and I...
The woman who walked out of the woods had been in hiding for four hours. Her name was Lexie. She was hitchhiking home to...
we walk your district quietly.
wait in the shelter.
I will
quite like a wild rumpus here some time.
I rather would.
It'd be stern,
but tender;
no broken bones
nor bruises,
only a disciplined hand
swift with love;
I rather would
it leave a sting that's
fast and fathering.
Moon sunken and cloth
His head resting on the crested pillow, a cacophony of arms
Belly, soft and strumming
It's dal for me tonight, doll
Before me, the...
It's all too much, the floor strewn with gifts
we couldn't possibly deserve. But our son
is happy, going from toy to toy, and so
are we,...
I've been hand drawing a card since getting married 40 years ago. We became grandparents this year and my wife thinks the baby is...
A dried booger fell
from my left nostril
as I asked the cashier for 2 lottery tickets
I saw it
she saw it
I saw that she saw it
she...
and they often do here
over the mountain's edge
like some dark sky bull
the best thing to do is strip
off all your clothes
and lie flat in...
I once sang operas and burned candles
in a place made holy by nothing but myself
and whatever there was — Charles Bukowski.
And for a while I...
green
brave
naïve
book-smart
rose-colored
beautiful
innocent
everyone’s friend
jumping in the puddles
sloshing through the rain
rolling in the grass
climbing down the trees
squinting at the sun
holding carefully the bugs
planting the lambs ear
sniffing the...
Decades ago I learned my 1982 poetry chapbook, "The Wisdom of Southern California," had been added to Special Collections at Shields Library on the...
https://soundcloud.com/tater/inhale-blessings
Inhale blessings,
exhale gratitude
if you got, a bad one,
change your attitude
A good lesson in life is to learn
Which bridge to cross or burn
When you burn...
I woke up this morning with a knot of words and got up right away hoping to unfurl them into a sort of typed-out...
Prompt: 5 minutes to write about something being born.
Five minutes? To give birth?
It doesn’t take that long.
A crown appears,
a head bubbles forward and out.
There...
everything hinges on death
their own black heart locks
the armed chickens within
their copper jacketed cage of
bitter fruit wood ankle deep
in the litter of mass killers
my name is man reading newspaper
and the street corner where he stands
my name is his hat
my name is his shoes
my name is the money...
Timmy taps
the walls at night
he’s an
excitable chap
his fingertips
sucking out
Helen’s life force
she tells
the doctors
of the gleeful
sleazy noises
that he makes
Helen knows
that winter
will be difficult
she might not
make...
my dog
is part howler monkey
the monkey part
are his vocal cords
he’s all dog, otherwise
he doesn’t wrap his tail
around tree branches
or climb trees
nor does he have...
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I took an online writing course which I tried to cancel but it was too late. Our first assignment was to tell one truth...
I talk out loud to ghosts
and never mind how it sounds.
Stella, I tell her, I'm sorry I did not keep up
your garden. The bougainvillea...
depression white waves
no caramel corn
Sara says something in the wind
I don't know what it is
slow walk down the boardwalk
some of my friends
buy trinkets from...
The big
deal of my
day may be
a bowl of
popcorn
and tv.
O I hear my
father’s dead
slippers
on the cold
linoleum
floor.
Hands at ten & two,
late Miles on Bluetooth,
I’m driving north
where once it rained,
where I rode my old gelding
around the reservation,
visiting the hogans
of my friends. We’d
drink...
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New Year’s Day
Streets seem tired,
city, at rest.
We move through balloons,
confetti, Moët,
leftover eggrolls,
last night's jest.
