Long Distance Love
A friend sendsA picture of three chickensStanding in a kind ofFormationOn a road whereThe snow has begunTo retreat
FunnyI tell herI was singing...
BLACKOUT
I know you are cold,motionless under covers holding the warmthso that freeze won't seep into your skin.I know you are cold,on the sofa under...
Imagining
Imagine light unpeelinglike appleskin,or a cloud of crowscircling,from a woodland pondreflectingtrees aboveregarding me with wonder,imagining me.
Awakening
See morning unpeellike an orange,loop the merry-go-round sun andonceagainchurn...
Etched
protectedand unprotectedpartsmake the wholemake the art
pour on the acidthe chemicalsfeel the burnfeel the boiling consumptiondepletiondestruction
or just watch it
from beneath the quiet balmof secrecy and...
Auguryafter Relative by Sam Gilliam
The sky washes over me, enticing,bursting open with orange and teal,
a cleansing becoming more vibrantfrom west to east. Soft, like...
Crimson
What makestonight's tropical wind so coldI wonder how the trees will surviveCome and kill me, engulf mein your wild currentsin you, I have heard,...
The Parabolic Flight of the Hummingbird
I will hypnotize you
With my ecstatic flight,
Back and forth,
Flashing ruby red.
Casting my spell to declare
All of this mine--
The flowers,...
stars melt in your skin
for R.M
quiet nights held inside your hands like water waitingfor the chance to become your ladder.
you first reminisced, as if...
After William Carlos Williams
So much
De
Pends
Uponthe dazed chickens
Fraughtwith meltwater
Besidesthe demonic and menacing
Icecream truck
Thatcirculates the neighborhood
Withan off-key kilter tune:
(Davidsings-“ dee bee dee bee dee bee boop...
