you gave rest and recompense against the wayward wind, and whistled through the dripping rain a call to arms of friends who came who came who called back through the other side of the storm, not I, not I, they yelled back to the thunderclapping form from here the clouds that hover nigh, you thought […]
Category: Poems
From poetry to short prose, a list of current creative projects
Whirlybirds
the whirlybirds don’t sing, but they must hear music the way they dance during their dash to the ground, so eager to die, and it’s a curious thing god did giving wings to the maple seeds to fly where the wind would take them, and like samsara, the samara’s birth pangs gave a reason to forgo […]
Disjointed
too many years I tried to feel with my head, to think with my heart, to love with only skin, as though all the parts of me were parts only and not the whole machine, churning gears, turning toward something grand I couldn’t see here, this finger like a leaf is, too, the root, the […]
Shiloh
that Sunken Road still sinks, as a thousand bloody feet were trudging, sloshing to the Pond for something there to drink, a thirst for death to thee abscond and all along the cedar fence, the field before them, smoky fog, a thousand more gave recompense howling loud for ‘Mom’ or ‘God,’ and yet the only […]
Schism
this is the harrowing of hell, the parsing process of self-analysis where the wheat and the chaff weren’t as simple as what was for dinner but why this meal was not that meal, and, “Did you finish your green beans, because starving children were starving” whether we were grateful or ungrateful in the cold, careful […]
Dark Friday
dark Friday, I always loved a little more than Sunday, always understood the nails a little more than the hands that wore the holes, but I guess, maybe, I was born in guilt and determined to shame not just me but you, too with a holy stigmata to wear around like some truth to shout […]
Nashville X
Gotham’s Greek goddess of war between those poured concrete columns, gold-gilded and shielded for battle with eyes fixed forward on some plan, she might be Parvati Parthenos with her gift of darshana in nearly any other forsaken land, but we pay homage, in deference to the cold concrete goddess indifferent to silence, and hoping she’ll […]
Debutante
she danced with Death, a debutante who closed her eyes and saw the cotillion under a dimly lit chandelier with no grand decor and otherwise empty save the hardwood floor that heard the click-clack of bones fill a ballroom in utter calamity, but I think she likes it, there on the crevasse believing that death […]
The Forest and Trees
those who never saw the forest for the trees, I never understood, and maybe it was the log in my eye that kept me focused on the wood, but I’m coming back down now, descending on the copse from the clouds, past every leaf and every twig and even to the heartwood – exposed and […]
Juniper
the juniper’s hedge always hid the highway from sight, while the trucks wooshing by were still trucks on their way to something better, something worse, and we just sat in the old hanging swing and let the juniper be enough, all while some would say we let the world pass us by, but believed the […]
