leaves paper the sky; spreading hands shielding the blaze of a sultry day from the tinder box crumble threading our journey through the trees as pages turning diary like to once before when youth’s lantern faces gleaming we shone with song more deliciously ardent than the apple buds’ danced imaginings. the circle full, the trunks […]
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It takes a while for pale green dots To turn into some grape varietal It takes only time, soil, rain, sun No need for supervision or religion These sacred green dot embryos Own all the information in code To build asymmetric conical clusters The endless wonders that abound Stakes and trellises optional The post Endless…
Mother Died Today Mother died today. That’s how it began. Or maybe yesterday, I can’t be sure. I gave the book to my mother in the hospital. She read the first sentence. Mother died today. She laughed and said you sure know how to cheer me up. The telegram came. It said, Mother dead Stop…
Mom grab my hand pull me out of the abyss of depression Abyss definition chasm gorge bottomless pit just a few words to describe depression Mom… Mom I miss you you don’t how much I miss the old memories Wanna sit here and look through pictures? Listen to music and talk? Listen to my problems?…
_______________________________________________________ Trespass Father’s paroled during the drought of seventy-eight only to vanish again, this time taking me with him— stealing into Levi’s pasture for cow skeletons, sun-stripped and patiently gleaming between the crushed iris. Above and around…
Even the sappy Xmas music in the supermarket didn’t make me want to break something that was surprising I let my dog pee on an Xmas tree for sale somehow that me feel good am I a bad man or did the dog win? I don’t miss my Xmas rage but it always amused me…
It’s too hot in here, I’m too removed from who I was. How did the settlers do it, pushing past sweat to build walls, and how long did they live, after all? I’m coming up on a special year, probably decades past what they saw, and have a rich sense of living these final days….
