Poems

I look up the date to see when they died,
wish I'd been like them but never even tried;
the...

An ant is drowning,
In a raindrop on a leaf,
Of a blue orchid.

On the top tip
of the hook up pyramid
sits my probably unattainable
fantasy angel...

My heart won’t liberate my spirit,
because it is afraid it doesn’t come back,
If I don’t set...

They want to pretend they're Ghetto...

That's between their Communities they grew up in...

...

"Extra! Extra! Read all about it!"

The alarming trend of renegade
souper spoons ladling out...

This damn obsession
weighing me down
to keep adding
more
lines
past...

Let me get this straight...

​​​​​​They think people are going to flip through the Channels......

Bored by the stainless blades slicing down this conversation
Deaths early arrivals pour by off the...

Most people know what it takes to Drive a Big Rig...

You used to have to know how to Read English...

Sorrow did not find me, that day beneath the willow tree.
It did not come to greet me, when I knew...

Spoiled rotten
is the metaphor du jour
where not only
does the stench fit
it...

HUT OF LOVE
She was in a fortitude of hilariousness,
Within a flow of nectar from her beauty...

GO AND BLOSSOM
Go and blossom, lovely lotus,
Tell the sun above to pour light,
So...

Another sedatives kick in, and I go dead.
A vacant mask where thoughts were once bred.
My...

I have this one particular
top drawer
sitting in my living room
I swear, it must be...

okay maybe,
if he had just been forced
to march
on his bone spurs for one
or...