Body

A rose arose
flaming
out of this stone

touching my heart
deeply by way of...

Said it looked like a flower
Which’d waited for him to bloom

Said he wanted to see the...

my way or the highway
my way or the heartache
my way or minus the highway
my way or...

BODY CAGE

I don’t have to show everything
I am modest, I am humble
There is value on...

Constipation spoilt rare visit
with eldest daughter
(yesterday - November twenty sixth...

9 months before, we are just an egg,
waiting for the sperm to find its edge,
it sits on the...

For those of you interested my nose knows
Any lies or fabrications it just grows and grows
...

circa June 20th, 2022
prompted me to stutter
self addressed rapid fire gesundheit
...

To me

both time and body
are liminal spaces

for

time to the body is fixed...

i hate my smile
plain and simple

i hate the way my cheeks pull up
rounded out,...

The earliest recollection with
lower gastrointestinal eruptions,
viz psychosomatic induced...

analogous to expending precious Air Supply
embellishing, modifying, revising, et cetera
a...

Purge the dust
from my ears, lungs, and nose
From the bellybutton too,
and away it all...

I revised a poem written
January twenty second
last year – two thousand twenty one
...

Little Pluto; no longer a planet; wears his heart on his sleeve!
A cold witness; Neptune; the ice...

Nose full of snot onto the tissue it comes
Head is pounding sounding like African drums
Eyes...