Every Night And Every Morning
Poem Every night and every morning I say my prayer and I’m falling more in more in love with you- my sweetest nightmare: Fresh air in a mountain gloom! Biting ice melting in...
Tagged: rebellion
That One Day at IKEA
Poem Walking a lot in flip-flops As everyone shops Blisters forming From the chaos Patience and integrity Slowly untying Decision knots So many options So tired and lost Whatever, flip a coin Let’s...
Labor(less) Day
Poem A carefully planned trip heads south When the supermarket I go to before Hitting the beach is now a Gutted, renovated shell My trusted landmark killed by progress We started late, uncertain...
When I See You
Poem My blood pulses like the flashes of lightning in a midnight sky that wake me and want to take me past some point of no return past the point which I have...
In The Forest
Nature Poetry In the forest I saw a dream the nature was shining the trees were colored in white with leaves on the ground and oranges everywhere the road led in the world...
To Obtain Consent
Poem Drawn curtains Folded linen Tired, laden with pretense I don’t want you Lie, frustrate thrown across open chasms Really only the foyer and bedroom Freedom is only a doorway From time to egress...
Smuggler’s Notch 2012 Travelogue, Part III
Haibun August 22nd Sterling Pond, blue water rippling. Madonna rises behind it, a mother holding a bowl on her lap. All the short breaths and hard sweats on the steps of the Sterling...
Living in Fire
Poem you set up this place where the grass isn’t green where the fence isn’t white the gates look welcoming take away the preview show me that you anticipate give me that devil...
Buying Time
Poem Wandering aimlessly, waiting for a spark from city to city, working from the start. Constantly misfitting, holding on to pictures of the past, A calendar of future, with appointment filled tasks. Is...
Privacy – Comes And Goes
Poem Who can be the judge Against the rallying cry Of lovers at night? Headboards revolt; pause The ardent groans cause changes In tempo – suspense! Jealousy claims me Their lives hold a completion...
Smuggler’s Notch 2012 Travelogue, Part II
Haibun Haiku Cannonball Contest His first jump sends pool water up a geyser’s height. His second jump nearly soaks the MC. His third jump barely ripples the water. He swims to me oblivious...
