she left me with whatever was left of me like night that needs morning to make it whole rise baby it’s time to get up and get going down town with the day that has had a head start and thousands of years to prepare to make you show it that it wasn’t … Continue reading
her crane legs constructing the city with a meaning that wades through the water of air heavy with tears that have since evaporated into the summer shaved on her skin where she sees me shakes and turns to the sun setting into hesitant horizon * a good poem contains all of it for the poetry … Continue reading
the following are four lines for you forever long you need them, which includes when you forget. * close but not closed you bring me into your open arms where you once relaxed then tightened to let go * to patch a hole first you have to poke the needle * spread my legs like … Continue reading
daffodil brave and yellow in the green grass capturing the sun be sad soon for winter always comes * moving on will seem like not moving for a while longer than the two of you maybe like maybe you could get back and move on together but like the waves sometimes the … Continue reading
it was the year without days and it only took a few seconds where you were on the Chilean sands where she always wanted to go because there’s the mountains and the ocean and the two of you in between the blue and blue and her bluest of all despite being here finally here with … Continue reading
get up why are you sleeping when you only wake with the arresting thought that you are tired of feeling like you are sleeping through a life that is getting you down * summer behind me like a dog on a leash pissing on the tree it sprouts breathing acid from a mouth and a … Continue reading
tears wiping away a face from me with eyes fixed on wherever it is nothingness fits into a room or just between us * the problem with poetry is that it has no solutions and this ambiguity produces more poems * whether you ask how you are answers who you are * maybe possibly … Continue reading
i thought i could fix this but i was crazy the missing nut a part * drunks and the maimed require other limbs to bring them home and healthy * we will collapse soon like a star onto itself white to black hands folding onto hands mouths onto mouths where no light can escape * … Continue reading
if there is anything i learned it is to question answers and to relearn if there is anything * it took a billion years for people to think that the world is only a few thousand years how wonderful to be so rocky still * eating my words with a tongue that slides a … Continue reading
she wants my body but it busts by being somebody else who allows himself to be her anybody i ask who is that nobody * write like no one is reading and know that at least one less is if you don’t * the saddest song requires a listening ear to make it … Continue reading