Every year
everything
I have ever learned
in my lifetime
leads back to this: the fires
and the black river of loss
whose other side
is salvation,
whose meaning
none of us will ever know.
To live in this world
you must be able
to do three things: Continue reading Excerpt: In Blackwater Woods
I’ve reached this land of mud and rain
And all its riches hard to gain,
And once I’ve reached this very spot,
Sometimes I Continue reading Oh Web Foot Land
My pool reopened;
I passed the lesbian in the lobby
Who has gone from openly barring
My entrance Continue reading My Pool Reopened
All the faces think.
Of now, of then, of after.
Fear is a room Continue reading The banalities of life
What if I told you it was happening now?
The dreams where they come to me
On that metal plank, and put things into my stomach;
Begging me, open the door,
Tweaking the Continue reading That didn’t and happened
(Photo by T. Ryder Smith)
Prickly as she is, ignoring
vegetables, say blended, aspirin
by the Continue reading Obsession
(Photo by T. Ryder Smith)
To be enthralled with a small object.
Pick someone up like it’s easy.
Pick someone up once a day.
SO many issues could have been avoided if I’d have picked someone up.
Lift.
Raise Continue reading The Ensemble
The soldiers sat watching the moon
Like it was their job.
Caressing the sharp points
On their jackets;
Eating grapefruits
Warm from weeks of travel.
Have you Continue reading The soldiers
