“I’ve run out of ways to tell you I love you.”
“That’s silly,” she says, kissing me reassuringly. “You tell me all the time.”
“I don’t want to repeat myself,” I say, wringing my hands. Vocabulary is a tricky business. “I want to be new and refreshing with my words. I want to woo you every moment [...]
All This
Zeitgeist Tanz
Because I am part of it don’t you think I understand the scope?
I wish you knew the extent of your abuse as a result of mine
I wish you knew the extent of your abuse as a result of mine
I wish my abuse would shatter you instead of make you laugh
I wish your abuse would shatter [...]
Three tanka (Watching You As You Walk Down The Street, I Catch Up And Hold Your Hand)
Your hips sometimes move
like a flamenco dancer
and I am afraid
of someone cutting
in to steal our dance alone.
The tiger’s eye ring
wrapped- like my hand around
yours- around your small
marriage finger reminds
me of your gold ring on mine.
The cigarette I
promised not to smoke (since it
takes away the years
I promised to you) is now
crushed underfoot, gone unsmoked.
Lapis and Moonstone, Opal and Amethyst (for S.)
I swear to her I’m hanging on for dear life by the lips of my fingers suckling a love of the curves she’s kept from courage in this cur’s age never a hip to slide beneath her like hers’ do, an admirer made unmade in mire ad infinitum. He’s the what she’s been asking and [...]
Buddhism is a Dead Scene
Ambience resulting in deafness
Life flashing before my infant eyes
my infant life flashing lights and tubes
subtle disappearances followed by
vile reoccurrences
eventually leading
to antipathic discourses
An epoch of moral stagnation,
with its consequent revolution
Vapid charred ruination
resurgence golden, short lived
cyclic consternation
and constant initiation
a phoenix starving
itself to ashes
Shame scratches its name
on the lining of my intestines
and then in [...]
Untitled list poem (I Met A Little Girl One Night at a Party)
This room with its yellow walls
Your face with its callow eyes
This screen with its taunting glare
Tomorrow’s routine, tomorrow’s surprise
A chessboard drunken strewn about
Consequence, our patron cruel and fair
Language, disease in vitro lay
Time dilates, an idle snare
My friends and your friends who don’t get along
My daily phone call to my dad
Your daily abuse and friendly epithet
You [...]
Neoteny, an Ode to Collegeville
The further I walk, it seems these charming streets
lead only to highways and well-maintained trails.
The harder I peddle, it seems my resolve only weakens-
I find some reason to return.
With the intent to run from the inevitable assimilation
With the intent to run from cyclic perpetuation
And now, the stores I patronize have assembled against me,
And now, the [...]
Collecting things for fear of losing my lover
The box I stole for you at the art store to hold
The quartz stones I had blessed by a Wiccan High Priestess for whom I picked
The mugwart that grows near my house where you gave me
The amethyst stone I used to reassure me when
The fight we had made me wish I’d never done
The stupid shit [...]
Womb
I’ve lived nearly twenty years in the womb
Of discontent
Refusing birth, opting only for redeath
Knowing not myself, opting instead to know nothing
Blind even to my own unseeing eyes
I’ve now broken the yoke of a prison borne of my own flesh
Poured forth in bloody exhale, yawning wide the wound
Chapped of constant rebirth
Naked, prostrate, lain bare to the [...]
