Category: poems
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I inject myself into the loop Another vertebrate hanging on at the edges On-ramps and exits Terminal escapes Streaming 2020sm
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I watch your little mind tremble With possibility As I teach you the names of the planets I imagine your tiny form firmly footed On some local bodied terra firma Or floating among alien jellyfish In the atmosphere of a gas giant Or weaving through the Ort cloud Destination unknown Spinning a Fibonacci spiral out…
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Half cigarettes pirouetting around the toilet bowl My dreams drip with the slick seepage of time I burrow deeper into the bed 2020sm
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all these thoughts in a rush thinking themselves into existence they condense in to a field permeating the igneous matter of my animal soul, infusing it with power, certainty, rhythm, the triad opens the mind like a portal in the dream i stand outside of space and the collective light of the universe is upon…
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where are we here, adrift with the rhythm racing in the stream like neutrinos destined for elsewhere collisions in some other now the creeks and tributaries meet at the river, becoming one body from many, rolling and rolling over the silt and stones bending and winding on and on fluid and swift then swallowed by…
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Unable to derive an appetite I Stand in the kitchen Drinking wine from the bottle Hoping to summon some meaning From the night It is nebulous, A spiral sliding deeper In to the beyond, Chasing the sun in its recession, The long dark, Falling forever With the rotation of time Consumed by the wave There…
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Humans slip away, As all matter surely does Yet who can say the rocks do not weep for the dirt? Every moment is built upon loss, Energy dissipated back into the universe To lubricate all that is ahead, Keep everything moving, This machine of life hisses and writhes Free, dispatched back to the outer realm…
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A warm hum Permeates the solid core of this home Like a siren from elsewhere Along and beyond the loop and the disc It calls to me from the wet dark unknown Asking how to be How to live But I do not know I too am a stranger here Unwinding In the definition Of…
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I choose to forget All that made you real, The space I leased to you in this brief burning existence I revoke The momentary lapse of judgment leaves a mark, An impression of bad times That will fade, Slowly, Until you are gone with it Spinning in crisis mode, Your default state is chaos, The…
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Your words dissipate and move away with the wind; I carve mine in rock, Burn them into the face of the moon And encode them in the current of my DNA Still; nothing is forever, And these timid atmospheres retract at your reproach In the death rattle of this terrible year October gives way to…