UNHOLY IN THE EGG FIELD I am a machine eating words to become the scum in the socket enriching someone else’s dawn I try to catch my own eye like an “oh” & look for a saunter or a gait wearing a fascinator I am model endings levitating like a gnashing love jammed into a fresh plastic seal ring I am the broken tip of the gem nicking the countdown that dropped out of your head I crawl over the egg field into something like a dread mess resembling a life of fire I am a type of amphibious heavy buzz bringing down romantic dances (a […]

Eulogy #1 Now don’t you go hunting Sweet boy. There’s a goddess Cruel with love for you, Willing to gather your blood Into flowers for her grief Should you become prey To the boar you seek. Eulogy #2 Now was there ever a  Love so sweet. Bend close To the water and croon Into the […]

The doctor who examined you compared the heart to a house with four doors. In your case,one of the doors is stuck, and there are dead plants on the windowsill. My first thought whenyou told me wasn’t for you but myself. I thought of how lost I would be if something were tohappen to you, […]

A Sunrise in the Winter Who rises to watch a sunrise in the winter? As the cold air nips and yawn-induced tears sting, Who bites back? I don’t speak of the farmer who must wake before dawn, Or a weary traveler on her way home from a redeye flight. I’m calling to those who break […]

 One wine soaked twilight scented by woodsmoke and lighter fluid, an ember floated up from the fire and kissed my bare thigh.Ten things that came to mind:  “I need a place to put him” I said,And she returned with a little wooden book, The top perforated into a pattern– Little breathing holes for something dead. An ember floated from the fire, And […]

In dreams in dreams you hugged the dirt,you passed through and you passed on.In dreams you wore the blue coat andin dreams we said goodbye. Altars Harvest the earth to bring to one’s altar,with its peeling stars, wax tears andtraces of the old devil etched into oak.The mundane fades as the liminal space widens and […]

i was able to make a mistake today and still walk back the person i was with all my blessings still accounted for in my back pocket. i was able to peel away an old angry thought that lied to me and turned on a power switch-off from a manual heart surplus fuse. my mechanics […]

she leaned through open car windowsfor cigarettes in her pre-teen low-rise denim cut-offswillowy from ritalin she said yes to the things I was afraid ofbonfire invitations and cans of warm beer and cloudy liquid sucked up through a needle on a cloud of cottonwell that escalated quicklysomething in you knew from a young ageyou could get whatever […]

Sitting in front of a bowl of steaming ramen, I’d never felt more alone. While the workers in the kitchen moved back and forth in an orchestrated symphony, the dining room was empty, except for me. I subconsciously picked the middle seat against the wall. The light from the street punched through the shaded glass, […]

CHILD’S POSE Inhale the distillate of night,  its sock-fuzz, cat dander & dust mites among the carpet fibers  & exhale the walrus, the whale,  the giraffe & the three pterodactyls  exiting  through the door in your back. Inhale the spores newly moldered  during this afternoon’s warmth  now re-icing in the needles  beneath the Eastern White […]