Far away from any city There is but cloth and blood Under no pretension But release of such Orgasmic silence In being isolated No rest for the wicked No comfortable place Yet so together The world turns Without us and Time flies like Scavengers Circling their prey A domineering call Over night and day RadioContinue reading “Ravenous”
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Adrift Key
Roses in our old beds Laying unmade Are only wilting While they rest And the ones we tend to Grow mature Sand is only blacker The closer to the coast Tightly packed beach In between your toes Lit by a sunset Closing down the world It’s time to go home It’s time to go homeContinue reading “Adrift Key”
Eid
You were beaming without a care Knew I was taking you out To dinner But you didn’t know where Could have ended up All cuddled up On my couch downstairs With Tim Burton movies But when we arrived All your friends had Already been there To blindside you Was never that good At surprise partiesContinue reading “Eid”
Photographer Nine
Family
Some are tightly lashed And tethered together Like the fate of Astronauts depends on it To spacewalk Or sailors in the Bering Sea need to survive Heavy thrashing and make It out on top Like every situation Is a new culture And every crew a family Dealing with the “Thick and thin” Because blood runsContinue reading “Family”
It Was Sunny Once
Our sun is dead Her legs didn’t work Too well In the end She was put to sleep Put down And let down Outlived many Like Piper and Redd Did so much like Run away Be part of Halloween And was a sled dog For my roller blading Sister But that age Has long passedContinue reading “It Was Sunny Once”
To the Extended Family
To the Extended Family So I’m not a “good Christian boy” So what? Good Christian boys are boring If the only characteristic To put in their title is “Christian” So I don’t pray or kneel To your God or your Christ Or your Bible stories I don’t feel the need To change for anything ForContinue reading “To the Extended Family”
Grandfather
Grandfather Why is he holding a gun? Tool belt is slumping After a long day of Who knows what. Car door opened Hastily it would seem, But upon it He rests with all leisure On it off the road Of some barrio hood. Where in the wilderness Has this hawk Been stopped? What jobs mightContinue reading “Grandfather”
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