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 […]

Tables and graphs

You measure life By your successes But You create no charts, legends, or keys There is no presentation documenting the good Just burning images of all the bad Your loss Your hurt Your wasted time But each failure is actually a success Yes, you learned a valuable lesson Which ought to be followed with “Today I” […]

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 […]

On Making Plans

Go ahead. It doesn’t matter. I’ll do what I want and you can fuck off.

A Move to the Woods

I’d like to go for a walk in the woods A forest A grove A riverbank A valley A wet grassland A secluded marsh Along a fallen log I would find a tree and climb it And sit for awhile See the plants The birds The insects The amphibians The mollusks The mammals The reptiles I’d […]

Parades and Chimneys

Once rejected and death threatened Sixteen years pass Theavery and Tearing Snatching of Bread and Brisket Chasing Pouncing Fighting and Spitting Claiming the pile of catnip Roll in the grass and Sun on the concrete Thunderous purr when you see me Sleep in your spot Thank you for staying Know that I love you and you […]