Carnival

Carnival

born to dance this diurnal dancetwo-stepping through the yearsriding this merry-go-round and aroundtime to embrace centrifugal forceclutch the purple pony’s maneand gallop into the music.

a walk

a walk the moment calls me to that stream from Drucker’s pond to Maquoit bay to home where great blue herons feed the boy up to his knees in icy water and smelt the land lies sideways clouds float inside out

The Last Bullet

the production lines have gone silentthe last soldier has just one bulletall around him, the white flags flysurrenderers surrender to the surrendererscapitulate to the futility of war"something's wrong with Earth,"…

Johanna

why does it seem like yesterday?the world has been turning for years nowevery morning i wake upand you’re gone as gone can besuch is the story of a drifteronce stopped…

Post Mortum

I have reached the end of my rope. Snap! I’m fortunate given two lives to live.In the first one, I had a childhood, traumatizing as it was.Verbal, physical, psychological, and…

Love thy Neighbor

not such a far-fetched conceptwhen you stop and think of the practical applicationsnow, I’m no Bible-toting manbut some things just make sensei write my rhymes with carethen in forceful defianceof…