Compound Interest
I’m the Moolah of addictionpushing proceeds of afflictiondemand for my brand of self-inflictionat an all-time high the division of humanitya principal conditionof this nuclear religionin a split-hair decisionthe jury fully…
Destinations
damngravel in my shoe againtoe’s sticking through the hole in my socki kneeladjust my worn-out footwearstare at the patterns in the cracked pavementhow many milesto my destinationsomewhere beyond this highway…
Figments of Truth
i look at myselfin the mirror each daystudy this decaying fleshdraped on ancient bonesthe truth of a thousand liesburied behind these tombstone eyesgas on a funeral pyrematch in handi set…
Plausible Pliability
lizard dreamsgot to let my spikes downcatch a little shut-eyetry to rememberthat tune i forgotwalking off the blues the other daymumbling hints of jazz. i must be a rockbecause here…
Starry Night
on the precipice, i standthe canyon belowgathering shadows in its hungry mawmy eyes plunge into the last of dayso near, her raysi can almost touch themone more step and i’ll…
A Brush with Fate
a paintingof a boyplaying on the beach . . .the sea now swollenswallowing the manMonsieur Beaufont, an aristocrat from Paris, is throwing a housewarming party. He’s just migrated to New…
Timestamp
As autumn slowly fades into winter's relentless grasp, I find myself wandering back through the pages of my mind, watching piles of leaves I raked this morning skitter across the…
Flicker
We danced through spring, held hands all summer, embarked on strolls through groves of falling leaves.Beside the fire, this winter's eve, crackles in our ears simmer with the echoes of…
Center of the Universe
wind playsin fields i once roameda billionblades of grass bendingwith the shifting sky What you saw on that empty hillside many decades ago, I’ll never really know because you carried…
Battle Cry
I tilt my head left to right to left, then forward and back to forward. Roll it around. Shrug my shoulders down, then up, down, then up. Fingers squeeze, stretch,…
