maybe it’s time for you to go

dinner isn’t ready. it won’t be. the stove is broken, the heating element snapped. there isn’t a clean dish in this house and we’re out of soap anyway. our food has spoiled. each veggie stalk moldy. fruit turned to mush. the bread ready for a penicillin harvest. there’s blood in the freezer, the meat thawed and […]

What They Said

Words To be ignored, reasoned through, dismissed The real betrayal Is in my brain Where the words leak Into my dreams Creating life: beating, kicking, missing Absence The words they said Are just words But they’ve bled Into my waking Walking life And the words they said Kill.

On Making Friends

A gaggle of geese A party of jays A murder of crows A charm of finches An Opportunity of Strangers A chance to be

On Solitude

It’s true. Single file one will travel, But only if they choose. Jade may be and bitterness free, Eyes bore into the globe in front of you. Still – If I’m not mistaken, these aisles run side by side. Rows upon rows with no singular distinction, More tapestry warp than train. Cling hard and fast […]

Busy Being Them

Can there be an explanation for everything? A basic reason why that is Our trumpeting truth with which Knocks away the dusty deniers Ridiculous liars And the ugly clowns that come with them? Can there be just coincidence? A meeting of minds that contains The combination of elements creating what is Our awareness, but not our […]

Walking

Will you walk through And forget What you’ve done? Will you walk by And forget Who you lost? Will you walk in And forget where you’ve been? Or Will you walk on without us?

Monsters Drive By

Sunny day or perhaps with clouds Rain and maybe wind Calm travel Stop at a light Turn left or Turn right When I glimpse it Terrible Teeth Mouth stretched wide Silent screaming Eyes peeled back Terror strikes I shriek Monsters Least suspected Just so briefly Mouths still closing Back to normal I’m still shaking Fright […]

Intentional Forgetting

It’s easy to forget if you’re busy. When constant interruption Keeps you from focusing On what’s wrong. It’s easy to get lost In constant entertainment Overlooking your world Just to be gone. It’s easy to grow complacent With constant distraction Erasing your questions Of what ought to belong. It’s easy to ignore what you’re neglecting If you’ve given up What […]

We’re Inexplicably Drawn

I find tunnels more frightening than woods and Neighbors more than strangers and Crowds more than isolation and Calm more than panic Each one Unpredictable, rash, volatile Familiarity is more dangerous than the obscure and Walking away more than toward and Comfort more than anguish and Love more than hate Each one with your back turned Attacks

Lost To Us

A window A screen A light on inside You sitting at the table You reading a book A door A knocker A light on inside You tiptoeing You crouching A sliding glass door A screen A light on inside You on the couch back with your book A forehead resting on the wall A sob […]