Japanese Death Poems
as I slip from this planeinto the quiet realmbeneath a sea of starsI'll take with me my memoriesand leave you with the laughterthe dog can have my bones * as…
Deconstruction
morning after the journey from Heaven down to Hellwe flew all night past the warning signs unaware of the dice-roll just ahead. contents of our baggage strewn shredded on the hotel floor — cabbage, torn…
Belligerent
i conjure this necessity, razor-sharp, surging blood, with unmortgaged reason, no compromised beliefs or treaties of the heart, just commitment brewed to the maximum proof. to the icons of corruption—of…
Please Deliver This to Heaven
a poem for the ear.so many faces to light upas yours, many times i’ve seen. first,rehearsal. read each verse aloudtinker to-and-fro with the wordsstumble here and there through the syllablestwist…
Circus, Circa 1995
step right up, folks; take a rideon the living, breathing, seething, screamingroller coaster spend your dimesfly highbut don’t be latefor the indoctrination pass the milk, please, Katand have a tin…
Sunshine
Sunshine Hey you! How have you been these long years?Where are you now?Did you find love and embrace it hard?Just wondering, do you ever think of me?For 40 years you…
Baptism by Fire
Spring 2016 — Winter 2017what was it we said to each otherbefore parting waysin that Madison hotel room?me, chained motionless to my shadowthe walls caving in out of the darkness’til,…
H2O
from millilitersto dripsto puddles, streams, and pondslakes, springs, rivers, and seasice and fog and cloud and rainsteam, sweat, and tears i am a set of moleculesconceived only who knows how?a…
A Gentleman’s Game
too philosophical with my bishop, againmy opponent overwhelms me with his rooksin football, the term is “obvious pain”in love, it could be called a “mortal wound”in war, i guess they…
