paper planes and aching pains…i bend and alter this piece of paper / contort the corners / break the rules / paper plane in my palm / it soars to your home / scoping the…
We Drove the Hume…In ’76 we drove the Hume / at a hundred miles an hour / The third lane on a two lane road / and we were heading north / Young and invincibl…
One Last Celebration…I sit in the recliner couch. I shut my eyes and count my breathing. A whirring ball of sharp panic is growing in my chest. I scratch and sc…
nothing stolen, everything given…peel bell-like / softly inside me
underneath the magnet of my yesterdays…it reminds me to remember
a long sock of the imaginary…I don’t do anything, anymore / unless Simon says do that / fronting the fire with fire and sulfuric acid / I’m brimming with confidence / A…
The Awkward Man's Morning After…He lies still and rests his palm against her soft skin, puffing his chest out the way a warrior might when posing with a foot on his freshl…
Shrug it off...…Something… something…
my dear.…my love for you is born a thousand, dies a thousand deaths each time you open your sleepy hollow eyes.
Padlocks on Bridges…(I had a saturday morning to myself and went ‘into town’ as we say here. These are just some of things that I noticed and for s…
Onions…You know that smell your hands get if you don’t wash them the very second you cut onions? That really bitter stale smell that just won’t co…
Water Slide…With deliberate steps I enter the park. / Steps conscious enough to mask the fact, / I do not walk well. / With calculated steps I fool the…
like a twig in the beak of a bird who should’ve known better…Let me feed you, the worms of everyone else’s disgust.
Have you Ever ?…Have you Ever?…
The Flat Flat Footsteps…“Oh yes- it’s getting cold- but look at the flower,” she says, and nods towards it, so I know it’s another trick, and when she’s gone I thr…
Drawing a Circle with Cubist Words – 1 …Shadow of a wound / wound, black and blue / blue as an old song
Untitled…I walked tonight; upon streets that haven’t seen the soles of my feet for more than a decade. There’s something about putting …
Sour Fairy Floss …She reminds me of sugar sweet fairy floss. It was like looking in a mirror to what I could have become.