Tuesday, September 17, 2024

Too Soon to Take Down the Decorations

Sterilization competes with wrong-painted windows That grandmoths gather for ugly pearls Fostering the insight that gave all dynamic direction Of simple tested comradery Like a wastebasket in the muck Washed with torrid swelling lost journals Competing with stolen arguments Intentional arguments, meant to harm, to defeat, to imprison There was a simple, gathering, mule of […]

The Dawn of April Houseflies

I went to the moon to ask a question I posed as an agent in red I prospered for all winter meetings Always resting my legs in bed I went to the doorway to avoid the noise Of the indifference, the commotion, and the silent retreat Then when I heard you, you were no longer […]

Sossusvlei Convergence

Clay marble statues Omnipresent in lost sands Dare-devils in the weeds of turmoiled distracted grass There are no penitentiaries in the womb of science That does not meet exacting standards of obedience And regret from the neglect of partial resonances And informed disciplines that meet solitary confinement Under weights of lost journeys in missing journals […]

Sea of Clouds

Translated as an overthrow Truth is a delicate ticker-tape parade What will you see in the sea of clouds It is spreading, and growing, unto all involved Every so-called progressive step In which they demonstrate Through policy That they accept you for you Is another step In which you are being coerced Into loving and […]

Elders and Fruit Flies

Eager to dismiss The journey of paper journals Written in dry sand towels With the gratitude of sold-out entry(ways) And telegraphed byways For the fruit of yesterday’s orchards Whether they bleed, or peel, and lay languished in wet sand They are lost journals, telling lies your mother holds Those which are not sound Do not […]