I sat in our small kitchen, one warm summer morning waiting for the call the rest of the family went out of town for a couple...
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brown wooden letter t-letter

Woe Is Me

I have nothing to complain about but I still do. I’m working on getting better about that but it ain’t easy when raised living is grumbling about how life is always out to getcha
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sea waves under sunset

After the Visit

Go back to that place where just below the view of Holmes Bay, with its seal's back island, its lobster pots and birds, there is a windowsill with aquamarine...
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white padded armchair near glass window

Divine Sequence

I am the one who has been abandoned by God in this bedroom, the window shut.
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red lit candle

That Cemetery Cold

adds an extra jumper, adds early to bed, early to rise so no light lost. Candlemaker winter small heat on raw palms. Careful flame does not wander burn this shelter...
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Ogling at an image of a four foot wide ‘All natural’ megabum while queuing in the supermarket sensational real life can only be featured on the front page of a magazine where an 83-year-old woman can have incredible sex with a...
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“Excuse me,” he said, interrupting his guest to reach into the sky and tap, gently, twice. “That star has been bothering me all night. Now, you were saying?”
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Dear Dan, I miss you. I see you puffing so much at cigarettes you could push a sailboat with your breath. You'll die of cancer...
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stainless steel fork on green labeled can

Headliner

currently I am unavailable to press through the current events of the day the wife of Britain’s ex-prime minister was caught in a dress someone claimed unbecoming of funeral...
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the neighbor next door is crying wailing really I can’t do anything about it but say it’s ok even though she can’t hear me and it’s not
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edges

everything — even love — seems to have an edge to which all gravitate till it's reached — only to curve below, under — to wither never quite alive —...
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pink and yellow flowers in tilt shift lens

perennials

some pains of the heart never dissipate but rather sow themselves within the landscape of the mind as perennials of regret and remorse
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There are things that exist between places but never in places. Where you start and where you arrive will contain none of these.
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She screams at me over the telephone telling me I’ll be responsible for her death somehow it’s become my fault that she keeps her crack in a suitcase under the stairs he screams at me because...
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my Papap is sick and in the hospital he’s 95 I can call to talk to him we’ve never known what to say to each other it might be time...
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writing a good poem about sex is like cheating on my wife without having an affair
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red plant leaf with water droplets on the ground

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autumn rain... I try not to be afraid of eternity
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Distant boys sing from distant hills. Not rice but raisins are thrown and the stones that lead are paved with lemon. I'm not sauer. Daffodils are on my head you carry...
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there’s a pain in my gut just below my chest where the whole world has blown up I am all that’s left which is only rubble
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opened refrigerator filled with bottles

summer heat

even the fridge is struggling pumping & gurgling frantically
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man and woman sitting on bench facing sea

Empty Seat

Soon I will be going to a family reunion without part of my family, which makes “reunion” more like Lewis Carroll’s unbirthday party. A man who looks like my...
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in your dusty faded photograph you finally look like a man who killed himself you have now left us with that you murdered yourself and in your own way us too
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October Wind

I pretend for a moment that I understand something anything at all Then try to explain it to myself following the infinite thoughts that led me to this imagined...
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i dreamt people thought i was dead and naked waitresses served them at my wake when i woke and listened to the news i believed them war         famine                 pestilence the fourth...
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silhouette of three performers on stage

performance

well penned words on a page not unlike well trained actors on a stage
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man wearing black fedora hat and black suit jacket

6:09 a.m.

one day this poem woke up homeless it moved its shadow across the street but nothing else changed birds flew overhead traffic moved along the past on its way to the...
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cloudy sky at daytime

Happy Things

I wish I could write happy things, stuff about daisies, moonlight, a first kiss, or a mid-life lover, the greeting card stanzas that warm us like a puppy or a big furry cat laying in our...
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according to webMD for three weeks every month women prefer men with feminine features as they are more likely to be committed and nurturing for one week...
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He needed nothing for Christmas but fishing was in his blood Just to feel the sea breeze the smell of the water the pull on the line The last...
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photography of Cinema

4:48 a.m.

condemned to die but in the meantime we can watch free movies
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glacier mountains during day

what is

looking at the mountain with its stationary stare and seemingly vacant thought it is tempting to assume absolute ignorance a mere feature within a mute landscape but this could be wisdom at its purest this lack of a need to express what is
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shark and two fishes wall graffiti

In Defense

There is a shark in the bath water, a frightening fin making late night calls titled, “Bye-Bye America.”    We listen, but the dialogue is scripted in...
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One day when I was fourteen watching TV in our basement alone my father who could do everything it seemed design buildings rebuild car engines make his own bow arrowheads...
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man walking on desert

eulogy for Dean

Dean wrote his heart out often out of his mind hitchhiking the back roads riding along with any muse who stopped to pick him up safety be damned he was not afraid to bail on an indulgent poem careening across the page or...
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black and silver fountain pen

I need

mounds of paper, pens that never run out of ink to write, write watch squirrels bend low branches, bend not break, my back bends over the desk kink in my shoulder the...
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Dear Jame, you're right in the other room but in this sickness you are very far. the angels are tickling me. i have the Phillies...
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BUTTS

all I can do is go outside with a cigarette when my wife is on the phone talking about hurricanes and how much we’re in debt I sit there nervously puffing away I keep...
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.O.

day of small things, slowly steadily worked as we rest the dust motes, shine as gold.  
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round black and gold-colored Brietling chronograph watch

Moments

I look at my watch, its round deadpan face. The second hand helps move the first. Without it it’s harder to tell time is passing.
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two white and black birds on white sand during daytime

The Beach

fallen leaves cover the ground bird on a branch looking everywhere two birds on the beach searching the sands for something to eat a woman comes to the...
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white textile on white textile

The Last Breath

The last breath are words that share a heavy weight with those few words that are impossible to comprehend meaning both everything and nothing a finality beyond final It seems there...
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I think I’m going to want to kill myself so I can call the suicide hotline and have someone to talk to
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underwater photo

1 Star Rating

The heart has a stone— the weight of its master tied to it going down to the sea depth. We are given a double dare— a dagger, daring...
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closeup photo of USA flag

The Emigrant

America’s fucked I want to go to America I can’t get to America If I get to America they won’t let me back I can’t stay here I’m fucked At...
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ascend the mountain gathering descend the mountain scattering
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I had to light a second cigarette I was too anxious science says smoking makes you more anxious screw science I know what calms me down I pictured our rickety old waitress coming out saying you...
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Words circle an elusive center of meaning as wolves searching for warmth stalk fires on the coldest night of the year and aurora borealis dances in awe of...
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brown wooden blocks on white surface

mycribso

mycribso closetoyo urcoffinIb arelyhadro omtobreathe
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landscape photography of desert

Empty Metaphors

post-menopausal my feet get cold really, very cold so i bought a pair of fleece woven house boots soft rubber memory soles made in Iceland my hair doesn't get greasy anymore my skin is...
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There must be some mistake I can’t be that old Check the ledger again The ledger is correct, sir It is never wrong And while you’re here Here is your...
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. green.

light came, we saw the green ness of it all.                          we live in the country.
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brown wooden parquet floor tiles

Paste Wax

I asked Dad what he’d been doing lately. He said he’d been having nice phone conversations. I asked who he’d been talking to. He said Jason. “Who’s Jason?” I said. Dad’s...
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How Long

I may have been a child once I cannot recall young legs, bright cheeks, smooth skin - mirror reflects truth, aged tired eyes, silver strands of hair no longer...
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green plant on persons hand

We will

Do you remember when we planted the garden I tilled the soil and you followed behind carefully making lines for rows then lovingly placing each seed about a...
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the river flows and flows the castle walls have been breached a dinner table heaves   on the ramparts of our friendships crows, bearing news
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yellow maple leaf near body of water

Soaked as I am

Luck is that way rain falls over picnic dropped vase, water dribbles ankles, floor slippery, rivulets run driveway cracks, car has a new dent flaked with red paint crimson tears on gray I...
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Someday someone I love will find everything I have left hidden in boxes filed in cabinets hung on walls or even buried in rubble. It may simply be thrown away and...
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silhouette photography of man driving bus

One Night

There was a bus driver who had driven the very same route for fourteen years and never been able to get through the last five lights on...
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white and brown bus

Sherwood

I found a room through the classifieds, down the street in a clapboard house not far from my job. I met Dale the landlord on my lunch hour. He led me...
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I wonder what the opposite & equal reaction was to my loving you I know it doesn’t mean that you loved me as much in return the heavenly motion of our...
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yellow and black train on railways

22 Sept 22

He wasn’t a poet who woke early and wrote of distant trains drumming under a late blooming moon. He was much fresher than that. But reading his new...
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brown wooden puzzle blocks on white surface

9/23/22

Doctor told me today that I am cancer free. Then Albert Pujols hit home runs 699 & 700 in my honor. My very special, good news day!
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He

didn’t see poetry as anything special. it was just a part of him. a part of what he did... every day. he’d get up in the morning, have his coffee... walk out with the dog and write a...
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Inktober post 5

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grayscale photography of cemetery

St. Christopher

I wandered around after Tim shot himself in the basement, the place where we made out and watched monster movies after high school dances. “I like you,” he had said. “But I...
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f I could only fly he sings, serving up his marrow like the hors d'oeuvres no one takes, graciously enough to ache in front of strangers, to miss somebody openly while...
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you are taking everything from me overcoming me with you I’m like stars running out of light succumbing to the sunrise I’m on the street shielding my eyes from you till there’s nothing left...
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red clouds in the sky

Querulous

Lean out of this convention of age with your coffee, your blue humor and your explanation. I might even back up and laugh. I got here, too, you...
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high angle photography of waves on gray stone

Tides

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...
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assorted-color umbrella lot

time lapse poem

flyaway umbrella upside down fills with rainwater frogs move in mosquitos for dinner tadpoles ensue hop away pool dries up umbrella skeleton
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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...
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.new work.

thankyou and say it is only temporary balanced or tied with string though overnight decided to use the glue gun
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woman in black long sleeve shirt holding black ceramic mug

Aphasia

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...
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Daniel J. Flore III marked himself safe from himself
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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...
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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...
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heart bokeh light

A Hunch

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...
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I​ was​ sensitive​ but​ they​ pulled​ the​ petals​ off​ one​ at​ a​ time​ now​ I​ am​ a​ naked​ madman​ just​ standing​ there​
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black and silver revolver on red textile

7:40

whether we write a poem or pull a trigger we all go on daily flushing our piss into the earth
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like to be quiet, speaking only when you asked the question. not sure why i came. i think you invited me?
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man standing on road infront of high-rise buildi

Signs

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...
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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...
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brown maple leaves in tilt shift lens

a fair crop

how many times must the seasons change before they get it right?
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aerial photography houses

The Cleaver days

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...
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To Fight for the Right

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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...
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brown and orange trees

Autumn

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...
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.rose.

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...
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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...
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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...
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.idea.

while out on a longer walk, met him and he explained to me, about walking there and back again
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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...
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cargo ships in front of piled intermodal containers

River Angel

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...
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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...
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.hue.

duck egg blue the ironmongers in town at three seventy-nine we can walk there and back or there and bus back you see
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black and white cat lying on brown bamboo chair inside room

Auditory

Sometimes the cat is just an avocado branch scratching against the side wall in an early evening breeze.
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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...
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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...
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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...
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inktober post 4

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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...
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photo of hammock outdoor

Instinct

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...
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blue plastic round lid on water

Calm enough

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...
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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...
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brown and gray spiral ladder

Walking The Circle

deciding to get started I left the destination arriving when it all looked familiar but, this time, recognizing everything I missed
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unceremoniously

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
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man and woman standing beside white wall

VACANCY

the night is wide open legs a woman on the bed with tarantula calves a wine bottle on the dresser with your conscience
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Cleo Americanus

 
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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,...
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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...
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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...
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Blood Rain

"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....
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Inktober post 6

 
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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...
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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...
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low-angle photography of green leaf trees at daytime

Meditation

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...
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100 U.S. dollar banknote lot

Amgen

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...
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Hostess

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...
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La Rochelle

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RED SHAMAN Series

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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...
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flat lay photography of purple and red leaves

Abscission

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...
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open tuning

slide down rosewood creaks behind the song solo mandolin
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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...
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gray stines

4:43 a.m.

sorting over the bones that had meaning when flesh was on them flesh is long gone now meaning remains
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the back road was littered, rather blustery. today clouds blow in, leaves crake and groan. i say again, a darker hue
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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,...
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Portrait Series

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white wooden door

Parkinson’s

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...
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RED Series

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10 North Fulton

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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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Human me-ing lets ego drive. Human be-ing lets what-happens drive with ego in the passenger seat gaping out the window.
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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...
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An ode to Billy C.

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...
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man holding luggage photo

Rearrangements

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...
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purple and yellow abstract painting

pixelated

letters of words  expressed— pixels of a thought's  photograph
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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...
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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...
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  This started as my college project in the late 2021. It was a difficult time for me to learn a whole new technics. This...
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man's portrait photography

97.8% Impotent

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...
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..humans..

asked me who will be afraid of our ghosts ghosts of humans when we are gone
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Strange Things at Very Low Temperatures by Zed-Point
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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...
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woman with blonde hair holding her face

A Pretty Face

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...
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tilt shift lens photography of gray and black turntable

Billy Joel

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...
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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...
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woman's face

4 a.m.

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...
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snowman with red and white hat

Snowmen

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.
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Colors of Hoi An II

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Frightened

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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...
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Finally 1 and 2

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white flowers on black ceramic vase

Sour Moon

Black tea cools, bitter cup; sun sets soon; little lemon wedge drowned at the bottom, sunken yellow crescent, solemn, sour moon.
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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...
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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...
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Path to happiness

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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...
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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...
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closeup photo of cannabis plant

three exes

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...
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Ketchup

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...
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red strawberry fruit on green leaves

Strawberry Panic

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...
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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...
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High Life

Shattered bottle on sidewalk; city birds ingest diamonds.
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man beside the road with cars

Worry

this one ended up sounding softer. i think it was the keyboard player i was working with. his chords were kind of rich sounding,...
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white duck with yellow beak

Duck

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...
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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...
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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/  
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man in black suit holding bouquet of flowers

Mourners

“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...
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Hanoi Lilies

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.news.

do we describe what we see or maybe tell the tale inside round the corner on the wall are the bullet holes
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etchings

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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...
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Aegir

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woman sitting on rock near the beach

Sara

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...
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What Ever

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...
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Doctor Rife

https://soundcloud.com/skaadee/doctor-rife-16
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Cycle

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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...
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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...
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tip toe tread bone crunch chime eggshell dread all the time
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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* Be an asshole (they're interesting). * Spill a drink on the page. * Eat shit for breakfast. Write about it by dinner. * Waste some words...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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he read

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...
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Lady Macbeth

Pencil, Japanese drawing ink, watercolour paint, coloured acrylic ink, acrylic paint, Hydrus Watercolour Ink, graphic ink pen, on Strathmore 500 Series Illustration Board for...
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Colors Of Hoi An

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...
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man and woman in bathtub

NETFLIX

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...
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yMrTAVl5aXI
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blue, yellow, and brown wall decor

Poetry Happens

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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.
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Three Paintings

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how it is

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dry leaves on black concrete pavement

Small Talk

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...
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Reflection

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NARROWNESS

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Oil on canvas 24 x 18 inches
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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...
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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...
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selective focus photography of person riding teal car

Liberated Me

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...
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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...
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brown and black typewriter

HEY BUK

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....
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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...
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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...
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CATCH UP

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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,...
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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...
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