Thursday, March 24, 2016



In a heap or a drift
in an eye gone to sleep
in a castle near flooded
when the tide turns to creep
and you’re swimming in sand
married into
the short and the sweet
when wedded to the
grains of the wrong man
the time comes to leave him
the times comes to flee
in a heap or a drift
you run to the sea
and she gives you, the sea
an abundance of ardor
she gives you the free
she fastens the leftover
layers of you
in a heap or a drift
you run for the sake
of your murdered past
that unruly unwashed
essence of you
and you fly when you meet him
and then sink like a sin
you lie in the lonely
when you are sure of him
and bask in the possible
scowl at the laughable
in a heap or a drift
in an eye gone to sleep
in a castle near flooded
when the tide turns to creep
and you’re swimming in sand
when you are married into
the short and the sweet
when wedded to the
strains of the right man
you still fill your glass
with deniable fright
you still fill your glass
while he sleeps through the night
and you say
my love, my sandstorm
my form
my son of god
I am yours in the norm
with a handshake
I mourn
with a drunken nod
life without music
this language you gave me
In a heap or a drift
in an eye gone to sleep
in a castle near flooded
when the tide turns to creep
and you’re swimming in sand
when you are married into
the tugboat that saves you
on a wave of the likes
of jaco pastorius
on a wave that includes
only the two of us
in a heap or a drift
in an eye gone to sleep
I curl like a slug
on a newly born leaf

Sunday, March 20, 2016




















I miss certain beings
transient, invisible dreamworthy sorts
they flit in my uppermost afterword thoughts
some I have hated
or have hated me
others refrained from the
loud limb of the tree that
I crawled out on in drunken reverie
I went to a protest
and questioned the act
familiar yes
but still after the fact
marching and chanting
for all that is worth
eyes askance at the  formidable earth
it’s digging I say
that make things grow
not the repeatedly
unerring courtroom of know
I miss certain things
loudly visibly angered retorts
on busses to places that dropped us
in parking lots  full of the faceless
in innocent cases
I miss certain things that removed my braces
the chalky teeth underneath
is just about aging
No matter, I speak
No matter, I write
No matter, I vote or I don’t vote tonight
 the message like a sheet
over the drunkards reborn
is hanged out to dry
in the sun of our norm
I miss certain things I may well have to lose
this is mine
this was yours
in a cliff dwellers remove
you may laugh you may scorn
those urban trifles
all there is to prove
are existentialist rifles
One shot
one win
totally zen

I miss certain things again and again.

Wednesday, March 16, 2016


soap opera eyes
rise in octave hearts
bewildered in chance and
reminded at starts
that the light above is
the big light
that the light above is
the first light
you see in childy romance
the light that you see
forever in mid-chance
the big light is yours
and mine in our histories
we have no refined mystery
we cling to the murder,
the pain and the laughter
soap opera eyes
in the pleasant hereafter
sleep uneasily
open eyes heedlessly
once and again in
past gruesome romance
there’s that train whistle
as I clutch my truth pants
soap opera eyes
have the stuff I revere
uppity, negroid, astonished and queer
I’m old now
heedlessly charting my
life with you
we’re okay now
finally out of the blue
we’re okay now
and I am heedlessly loving you
we’re okay now and
flailing anew

Thursday, March 3, 2016


On the phone
like we always are
like we always were
sometimes with great distances
between the connections
on the phone
older than we always have been
like we never should have been
on the phone
she’s doom and gloom
and I half heartedly agree
because when we were young
I was the foolish and the free
she bailed me out
of painless ecstasy
on the phone
we begin to get older
memory serves like a wounded soldier
you are what? I shout
into the phone
voting for HIM
are you mad?
what’s the harm she says
he speaks the truth
what’s the harm I yell
what has happened to you
and those little ghosts
that have always been there
reappear in words often
unuttered
like the silt of an argument
sluicing the gutter
life lived with another
falls away like a gas
disperses the times we
walked shoulder to shoulder
disappears in the now
that we are much older
voting for HIM
has divided
has built us a border
can I pass
will I fix
this friendship disorder
take the time to
bury what I can’t understand
resurrect
on the phone
like we always can
nearer and often we are undecided
vote for him and
we are forever divided