My Best LifeLost in memoryHit the nail on the headSomeone always finds me Doyle’s words hauntingSo, maybe this is my best lifeMaybe this is as good as it gets The world crumbling, sinkingDeep down in the mud, dribblingShiny petrol rainbows, breeding The next hideous thingSprouting orange and red feathers,Suddenly brilliant, wings in glide; so, MaybeContinue reading “March 2023”
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February 2023 Collection: Part II
Everything Bounces, Nothing Sticks Art always looks the sameI just look differentOrbs of light hanging overThe strip of WW and 9th Orbs of light reflected in the glassOrbs of light welcome me onThe skybridge of Boone HospitalNo, wait, wait, I thought in IthacaI am still kingKing of this empty hall withSide struts unseen, undocumented AContinue reading “February 2023 Collection: Part II”
February 2023 Collection: Part I
A Few of the Plants Still Grow (Hop, skip, Little Cricket)I saw the flicking embersSoar like shooting starsLooking in from outside the box (Hop, skip, around my neckHold on tightWe’re going on a ghost huntWe’re not scared) It’s like standing atop aBed of nailsIt’s standing on a thousand nailsTo grow an inch So twisted andContinue reading “February 2023 Collection: Part I”
JAN 2023 Collection
Christmas Creek We walked on water at the tunnelLooking for cranesTrees whispering on the other side Our foot steps tread so carefullyOn the other sideOn Christmas Creek How still the soybean fieldFelt unreal, how the air breathedCold and paved us home On the other side of wide white wingsOn the sheet of ice groaning underContinue reading “JAN 2023 Collection”
Shattering Like China
Paint me babyBlue. SomehowIt always comes back to this Thought from the edge of a cliff:I am so incredibly sad. If I could just get thisVape pen to hit, I couldForget for a moment and Laugh, rattling out from somewhereDeep, maybe reptilian, andBathe in the Sun. Arm shattering likeChina under theWeight of the bowling ball,Continue reading “Shattering Like China”
Big Blue Sky
Looking up at the big blue skyWater water,Big blue sky This is what it’s all aboutAll about,All about Babble back and forthBlah blah bleh blehBla bla blah! August sun turned lazyLittle daisyLittle one Didn’t ask for this, feltThe hum of the pagoda bell butNot the mallet struck Could always try againCould always doAnything at allContinue reading “Big Blue Sky”
Relentless Commitment to Misery
A day like any otherA day filled with alarms and whistlesBlurred lines of reality like sloppy erasures Blurred lines of days, weeks, and monthsBlurred lines realigned withLion’s share tyranny Powerless masses, meet your gods andBe grateful for the marrow you suckle from theBones of their feast If you don’t like it, then you canSettle forContinue reading “Relentless Commitment to Misery”
No More Depression Bagels
No more depression bagelsNo more depression bagels because We’re gonna separate itToast itButter it Not gonna bite straight into theDoughy, soft bagel out of theBag, because it’s strange that Three minutes seems both infinitely long and short, and I am drowning in anticipation, Dreaming up what’s next andNever really here We’re gonna separate itToast itButterContinue reading “No More Depression Bagels”
Umbrella
Asphalt under your galoshes,Shining in the rain all theRainbows of orange and reds and yellows. Through your eyes, child,I live again in the t-ball game;Tagging up in the rain, Patching up the hole.I’ll be patching up that hole that youSomehow ignore, and how the Bile from my liver dissolvedEvery thing in its path until, asContinue reading “Umbrella”
Everything Too Much
Wow, look at thoseHands; I took theLarger half of the pill andMixed and matched andTime drifted past likeDiesel smog Bump on a log Frog on a logCroaking at the nightMy hands don’t feel right But they did on thePick and the neckFalsetto hush whispers “I’ll bring the cheap vodka” My hands don’t feel rightI amContinue reading “Everything Too Much”