Second Breakfast The three bears, they went out before breakfast To wait for their porridge to cool When they came back, a girl had destroyed it Which just seems to me rather cruel Did they chase her away in raw anger? Did they treat her…

Smashed up against others So crowded it scared me Then a flash above me Begat more just like thunder My heart how it pounded And filled me with joy Didn’t know the kid in me Was laughing so loudly Smiles stretch my bright face Shiny…

18     New Old Hair   Hoping for long white braids at eighty I am on my way despite hair thinning I had wanted thick wide lusty braids Those witches wore around a midnight fire   Accept my fate with what now endows my head…

I desire to sue for peace but the war in my head goes on for another hour, or day, or month, or year until my mind has been raised to the ground and devastation is all that is left

SECOND BREAKFAST   the way we wake, lazing against each other’s warmth when your voice breaks across my mind like ocean waves   I drink you up the way my skin drinks the morning light my iris opening to hold all the beauty bestowed upon…

to immerse oneself in nature is to embrace all insects and accept that making your bed amongst them is the surest way to invite them into your bed

There’s a legend about the well in the center of the garden. It is said, that’s where she led them. Bad children and unfaithful men Who’d come to her Begging her, to hide what they did   Told to leave a token As their wish…

Paper, pen, ink I’m ready to write But where are those thoughts I want to preserve on paper Clean white sheet Of paper covered in Doodles as I wait for Perfect words to fill my mind Crumple up doodles Select another clean sheet Think think…

17     Intermission   I might have to take a break I might have to stop And make some maple oatmeal On my bed I will flop   I will keep the light shining To avoid a deep long sleep I have to give my…

Grace escapes my life this burgeoning night. Drugs coax me to door of the dying. I care little of this conclusive plight. Our souls are annexed, mortality crying. Resistance of desire not within our might. A bitten tongue commences shared dining.   Dreamlike wraiths, absorbed…