Archive for September, 2015


Small Inch, Big Foot

Consider: not some but all Yeti sightings
are actually hairy large men
who on a drunken dare
are streaking through the wetlands.

Chagall 2015

Narcotic

I delude myself to believe
that you actually read what I write.

Chagall 2015

And when she passed away
rather than fighting with the rest
over money and land and bangles,
I was adamant, insistent that I
would get her recipes, her Guardian Service,
that picture of her with Pop at the Copa,
the perennials from her garden.

Chagall 2015

I wish I was a ventriloquist
At least I’d have someone to talk with

Chagall & Mortimer 2015

(Carlos, okay to go back in the box now?)

Grip you
pull yo . . .
oh boy, I can see
I’ve already lost you

No?

. . . u in.

Chagall 2015

just Wondering Shotgun

Does anybody
any longer
yet dot their j?

Chagall 2015

She asked if I thought I could fix it
I said sure, your Hotspot is off
A simple hand gesture to toggle that button
Should make all your blues go away

Olé!

Chagall 2015

I see trails, no light incites them
across weary eyes’ dull cones
the aftermath of her once, seen now gone
a fragrant sight, a dulcet taste
a sonorous breath, avalanches of undisturbed
moments froze tick steadily, the incessant sound
of no breathing, pulses of heartache
always forever on never an offbeat
splendor in the sere grass, shoes kicked off
dust kicked up, hopes kicked in dashed Kewpie’s knocked down
on ancient boardwalks calliopes beckon the lights
incite the trails that streak my vision
comet extinction, another time around

Chagall 2015

This morning it took me more than a beat
to discern what was volatile

Right is left – right?
This is so unlike me

Right upfront, back down
Go on now – rise! – be counted

There’s nothing, no fray just a fringe
Of lunatics on the mend (’round the bend)
Intimate circles inside the outskirts
Give thanks now return to your sanctum

Chagall 2015

I am a mob of one on the flash
A pulmonary conviction
The membrane of your choice

I am the Matador, Sinewy Eros
Entangling horns as they come
Nearer to thee than the moon
Dear Gaia

I am millions of deities rolled into One
A lozenge, a salve, a breath mint

As a harpsichord I traipse the body luscious
The perennial you plant
Every year hoping

Ground-breaking rip-roaring shattered
Glass

Jagged shards, Green clovers, Pink moons
Lucky charms and amulets
Around your ankles and thighs
Tigers and bears

Oh my!

Chagall 2015