Melodrama

Rocket fuel ignited,
Descending to that place,

We had just spent the last 9 months
...

In the echoes of silence, our love's refrain, I feel the distance, the ache, the pain. Words left unspoken...

SOME DAYS
They tell me life's a journey
That will take me many years
Some days
...

April 21—Salient Image (poem based on one concrete thing you remember at day’s end)

Image of My...

To miss, is to not forget
With a hint of regret
Combined with heartache
But not for...

We sail and happily venture away,
Seeking our Island of Lost Dreams.
We'll discover it one...

A little breath of scandal,
And a pair of intent ears.
Suddenly a public tale is told,...

no more jupiters. fresh out of those things that go bump in the night
because they all work...

sold on the gray market… for a nickel without shame
sewer pipes thud and groan in a moonless irony...

while taking a pickax to a polaroid, i stumbled upon a labyrinth selling gordian knots
to...

April 6—Beverage, libation, liquid…

in the morning
I drink a cup
of snarling hot...

March 31 warm Up

Easter Bunny Warning

the Easter Bunny
had a warning
he was...

there’s nothing trivial about iron balloons.
the way they occur on the tip of your tongue
...

done and done, the merging bowl
with all it’s whirlpools and undertows
pitching to...

the windmills squeak now. but the wind keeps a silence
as long winded. a rogue wave pitching...

Jupiter on my doorstep
Fumbling moons into a basket I left on the stoop
With a cinderblock...

ghosts singsong nursery rhymes
into the eardrum thumping inner thoughts
chipping ice with an...