Some Carnival Ride

At twilight’s fall, I see the course my ride has takenMapped back, how the sun rose at dawnFelt the wheel…

Your Enough

Not mine, anchored under sheets lapped over us,wrinkled little but still not broken,yet stiff enough to press the issue. So…

70

The only thing that’s strangeis realizing I’ve arrived alive.Nothing’s changed to more weird make. Water still runs through my fingers,scooped…

Hold On

Love memories, a gravestone’s dust of snowTwirls beneath a mirrored glistening ballThe way you say, “I’m yours for good”Baryshnikov, Rampal,…

Here nor There

I say, “When silence disappears, that’s where nothingness begins,”and she’s skeptical – I can see it in the crinkle between…

Forever September 21

There were a couple songs she danced to more joyfully than others,that spark in her eye when she heard them…

Lay Down

It is so cold here, and we are so needyWho will turn down slim sheetsAll there is to cover us…

Memory and Desire

Is it true the redhead died as sexy for you coming out of childhood?That your bow, once strung taut, began…

Some and None

How was that exhilaration when bombs and bullets tore up flesh and bone?When the blood and brains of fellow soldiers…

Confirmation

So every soul now in this placeSits beneath its bone and fleshThe ancient path of follow him swallowingIn case we…

Let Go

I trip along the road to her house.There’s no sidewalk here, never has been.We used to hold hands along this…

Lying Down

Amazing how the prophesy of time and age fulfills itself.Hard to stand and harder to get around sometimes.Aches rush at…

For the Best

His work just about done, Chad sat down on the avocado-colored La-Z-Boy recliner planted on the beige and brown shag…

Some Game

Sometime back then he began running round the light,dressed in striped fatigues, the prison building himself,dodging a zigzag under the…

Ukraine Picture

The first thing you see are the metal straps,the packing case type glinting in low light,used, in their first lives…

The Clearing Future

This is the way the world ends,our death, I swear, our not to be,fast in the distance, a growing dotthat…

Oh yeah, baby, do it to me,

yeah, oh yeah, oh yeah, oh yeah.  You know that’s the way I like it.  Mmmmm, slow and smooth, baby, baby, baby,…