the acidity of the supper rips her supple lips to pieces but a daub of care, a sweeping tongue there, makes it fine Chagall 2021
Category: Poetry
I am startled by reflections in glass, exciting further reflections once I am once removed I am no longer the shortest distance between two points is today a jagged line I curate my catalog of memories and that of my dreams into a single volume in time for the burning but out of step with the geese I go deep underground to make love with mycorrhizae as sad as I I used to be a fun guy Chagall 2021
The noise is deafening; startled, I run to see There strewn about the hallowed ground, injured and writhing, a host of better angels Chagall 2021
I can't keep track of whom I'm mourning, too many leaving too quickly, a chorus forgotten, faces overlap in my heart, small souvenirs, mementos in cameo, loved ones in bit-parts I waited lifetimes to see and now they're gone disappeared, slipped away, sound bytes on my inner ear without replay deep below my eyes I fall forever inward there is a downpour in the hollow of my body, the distant thunder close now despite the faded rumble the evaporating shimmer, the last vestige of having been heard, head down, shoulders resigned to the weight, the compression of billions of light years atop the spine, energy density, kinetic wherewithal, frenetic withdrawal where is everybody going? better don't take me with you - without me who would remain for you to be missed? on the face of the water the air must remain perfectly still for You to be mist more than a smoke ring, an eternal cloud of whimsy in search of reenactment reanimation rebirth life anew cc: CC 2021 Written for dearest Norman, Lottie, Ginny, Tricia, Arthur, Carol, and Kelly Until we meet again - ci vediamo
Sun shows up our pain, life goes on now when she ends, if only bells tolled cc: CC 2021
nowadays I can practically will it to happen incredulous you imbecile you unstable untenable you impenetrable ...once upon a time you no love nowhere the dark spot hold on commence full glide cc: CC 2021
I told her the popcorn would come in handy and indeed it saved her life cc: CC 2021
sometimes I forget what day it is and whether I am awaiting your return from work or a train or your errand downtown some weekend and who I might be while in waiting I write a song so beautiful I cry so that I cannot sing it cc: CC 2021
oddly this has made us all holy cc: CC 2021
my grandfather's shed was a chicken coop though he never kept any chickens there with gravel floor and bees right over the door which made leaving hard a large rock-hive holed and teeming built in the studded eave outside the coop grandpa smoking L&Ms burning leaves at night when the air is cool cc: CC 2020
