Tag: poetry
The Mother List
Your mother is soft tissue like rabbit ready for stew. Your mother is murder, she just doesn’t know it yet. Your mother is long rambling speech patterns. Your mother is perfect oval shapes. Your mother is god-like and fickle. Your mother is suffering. Your mother is seven miles uphill. Your Read more
THE MONSOON
Today we celebrate the monsoon. Will we then come to hate the monsoon? All night, I danced with him in the rain. What could it not create, the monsoon. She thought of love as flood. Was she wrong? By then it was too late. The monsoon. Clouds wear black masks Read more
Mature Vision
He looks my way as we sit in the chain salon awaiting our haircuts, and I wonder if “my way” is at me, since he repeats the twists of neck—but my eyes cannot certify since I keep them down on my phone and remember a friend of adolescence who would Read more
THE EPSTEIN FILES
Isn’t it always and hasn’t it always been a voice answering a voice? The voice outside with its multiple morning voices of bluebird and robin and finch, the evening canticles of owls, the polyrhythms of crickets, the drone of the tanpura wind in the tops of distant trees like a Read more
Dream in Ink
She comes to me in dreams fluid, morphing, alive, made real. Here, swimming in lost consciousness, I can caress her face tell her I love her without falter – no stumbling blocks exist, only accessible inked rivers, free-flowing, boundless… This inky swirled land is our playground and her calligraphy a Read more
Self Sabotage
We fight ourselves off every day The temptations for self hatred Gather ‘round for sentencing at the Crown Court We go into battle eyes to God, hand to Chest Young boys drum For the new citizenry Stopped in tracks by musket balls Worse bayonets Worse hand to hand combat with Read more