9/15/20


 

(5-7-5)


grey drizzle morning
clouds dulling the rising sun
still, i wake and breathe




out there



out there somewhere
  is the
Love, She, You
of all my poems

the subject of verse
  of tripped up words
  of microblatherings
  of rambling prose

if only i knew
i would jump there in a second

exigent love would bloom
from a release of desperation

for now
i etch my words into these
feathered formats

should she see them
  love
  you
know i am longing to somehow
be there





the birth of change

 


, i am



concrete of a city floor, i am
steel bones of a high rise, i am
soils of a vacant field, i am
the trunk of a mighty oak

sewer streams in gutters, i am
flickering neon lights, i am
viscous trails of slugs, i am
feathered flights of hawks

moonrise on the ocean, i am
silvered blue and grey, i am
midday desert sunlight, i am
crimson burn and char

the gardens are all around me, i am
planted here and thrive, i am
just as grown as anything, i am
yet to be revealed




9/13/20

soft collisions



there’s a silence
when the sun breaks
when the breath you stole
from the night escapes
when the ocean calms
itself of waves
and soft collisions of
dream remain

there love lies
as silent as a spy
unfettered, unassigned
as breaking sun arrives


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9/12/20

 
O poem, O poem
in fragments or flows
in rhyme or free verse
as thief or provider

O poem, O poem
there’s a poet in the gloaming
a seeker on the path
of a maze undeciphered



9/11/20

dream in a mixing bowl



over the edge of this
flat earth
falling in a descending
scream of perfect
chromatic scale
intervals

dream of a splash
but there is none as
gravity be damned,
but something is
pulling me

stir of a soul in
the lost swirl of
nothingness,
mixed in extremes of
zero kelvins and
inferno

the beauty here is
elusive,
divested of gender;
  if you believe in
  anything
  it will only
  block your path

9/10/20

(5-7-5)

morning aria
kiss me here, my love, my girl
while music still plays




good company



most of my favorite singers
are dead

their heavy lives now
weightless,
jaded anarchy now in step
to the binding laws of afterlife
  whatever they may be

their lives taken too early
by self or circumstance
now wailing in a room of echoes
  the questions that haunt
  without answers

yes death, you win again
take the singers, the poets
the voices of strangers
i’ve come to know
  you always win

i am still soothed by the
company i’ve gathered

9/9/20

(5-7-5)



missing you, i take
refuge in your distant voice
  love is an island




cradled



i love you

not the way love makes you
run and
jump and
sing
and say that you can do
anything

no

i love you in a silence
that cradles the heart

engulfs the soul



it


 

9/7/20

somebody’s fucking



somebody’s fucking
i can almost feel it
legs spreading
secrets revealing

somebody’s fucking
i can almost taste it
lips encouraging
tongues entangled

somebody’s screaming
~ Oh fucking god ~
as moon continues
the overflowing

somebody’s fucking
i can almost see it
the lights are dim now
the shadows receding




below Isabel



with memories of my own lost love
i sit below sweet Isabel
and swat the flies below an Oak
and loathe the passers-by

for them i weep, i pour myself
into a lonesome sigh
for those who pass with just a glance
have nothing in their eyes

  and nothing left for you my love?
  or nothing but some placid thought
  that breaks your beauty down to half
  now naked in this garden

  i beg of you, dear Isabel
  think now good thoughts and pleasures
  and dream a day when god unites
  all sorrows with their treasures







 

9/6/20

crushed

vacillating lips
paused - reluctant
broken apart
suspended consent

palpable breath
heavy anticipations
moist hesitations
breathe out
breathe in

crowded inhibitions
an exit
an entrance
complicated arousals
allowable temptations

vacillating lips
pause - connect
apprehensions demolished
our intentions
crash in