Butcher block boobs fall into my mouth and I lick the salt in sweat like an animal left by the houses of history to wolf down whatever comes and doesn’t which is meat shaking and dried because I’m told that I need to be softer so I let go only to experience the hardest thing of … Continue reading
All the streets are warm and the trees alive with dances that cool the sun-steeped and their shadows Love lingers like this for a long while Women wear flowers so they don’t wilt with them and with the soil where no garden grows Love lingers like this for a long while She’s draped in stripes … Continue reading
It is perplexing to imagine death as the end of life because death is all life is in its perplexing end * I can’t hear my poetry over the clicking of these words and of the voice that reads now which blocks me from me by being you * I am terrified alone and wet with … Continue reading
There is always someone more to know always someone worth always like her under the blue light who will always be there in your mind making you want to speak or listen or both until someone else unknown comes along who is more than always * Life is long but he died young younger than … Continue reading
We were kids playing hide and seek and he was it but not for long because he knew where I was for I always slinked underneath the lamp with a canopy of cloth and cookies that may distract others but not him because he was it and I could hear him humming some song about … Continue reading
I am filth I am sadness but I dress up superbly and shake hands firmly and smile on occasions that leave me filthy * Under the metal canopy of rain and dirt you read a Thai author who died when death didn’t have a medical definition and you realize you are older than you are old … Continue reading
Does a man who does not run from rain have nowhere to be or is here where there is no one else that can see that even shadows have tears in the peace and rejuvenation of self? * Sinking city with a car for a lighthouse I rock on the road holding on to the … Continue reading
We are unified by suffering and separated from those we make suffer and widening this gap with status and money and me who looks for status and money and me in things other than status and money is humanity’s progress up to date * I am always in the middle where the endings are nowhere … Continue reading
The room was empty while I sat in it waiting for the future to come with my letters still in my pen and my pen still in me as I busied myself with the dog barks and the domestic savagery of letting it out because it was a wolf anyways and I sat back down saw … Continue reading
Burn those expanding circles and the edges that you’ll never see again where the chance to jump has faded through life Burn for you’ll never amount to anything and most of the time you’ll amount to less Burn hotter than the fires that consume you so that when they overcome they do not … Continue reading