100th Monkey Soup

Today I changed something about my behavior and a friend did as well. We gawked at each other in amazement. No more washing potatoes at the stream but now altering our DNA.  Gone sickle cell anemia or Huntington’s disease.  It’s tight, this circuit of lines…

Latest Obsession

  all the best fashion there’s nothing like buying Roberto Cavalli, Gucci, Versace it’s my secret obsession just a few pieces to own worked hard now play hard enjoy the finer things when I can out in the town make a booking order the best…

Confronting

The dragon fears what it cannot see, but I will not allow such things to hold me back. I will see into the future, see how my actions influence others, see how I am a ripple in a larger body of water than I can…

Breakfast: A Cultural Appropriation

8 a.m. Tom Kah Thai Coconut soup A breakfast pleasure I feel guilty over Because I’m a white American I swallow Warmth descends, waking me from the inside Between spoonfuls, I remove chunks of galangal and lemongrass from the hot liquid Remembering the first time…

6. Process

A verse… adverse reverse, re-write…re-do! Addiction to the form. Complete, repeat all right… delete! A vision to reform.   Decisions and revisions, edit, shed it, let it go… reactions and restrictions… dedication to the show off in my brain.   Dedicate, reiterate enunciate in prose……

Sweet Amber Eyes

Little amber eyed gal A man’s best pal Cuts her teeth on his chair While she watches him stare She’s lost her home twice You’d think she would learn to be nice Arms to cuddle and hold you Food to feed and uphold you Little…

Birds of Love

Aching heart and rattled mind, I seek a friend, and few I find With open hearts and willing soul I remember times of old When love was easy, love was kind And we were friends, all lives entwined And we could live our lives half-blind…

An Arthropod’s Frame of Reference (Hour 6)

Taking a chance at knowing the world through a blanketing reassurance. Searching for the moment when I can honestly believe I have succeeded. Sweet insect crawling across the windows pane, Bursting steps upon a transparent world. Too small to recognize your own reflection, Too miniscule…

Graffiti

HOUR SIX An artist- a graffiti for appraisal a solicitous effort to mend a chaos White noise- a concoction of idiosyncrasies and vulnerabilities. How to break this inertia? Graffiti languishing in a loop- not a loop of Henle but maybe a loop of Karma? You…