DogSpeak #16 Yawn We’re watching tv on the couch, a bad movie but I’m not allowed to touch the remote. You stick with it but I’ve seen enough. I look over at you to telegraph the idea of changing channels. You yawn, I yawn. I…

this den clasps the innocent scribe the sombre meekness of tales by ink pour out the constructs of an alien mind canoe-ing atop the gentle river; keeper of seas, beholder of storms by sweet conscience we slave the virgins by mortal fires to molt them…

they sit together   arms around each other under their favorite old tree looking away in opposite directions (with different futures?)

the first day they learn conveyor belt of children red apple for lunch

that booster fever is kickin in! that hot and cold feeling and clammy skin. arm is more sore than before. Now I gotta try and push though! got an alarm set for every hour to complete this task. I hope I wake up, that’s not…

Hope plays the role contrite, L’art Cullinaire served on despair, ‘You remember your place, my hold ever renewed!’ For what is flavour if loyalty, if yours is insipid impaired   She basks on pleasantries, humouring my air, Callously agreeable, contented and shrewd, Hope plays the…

Life seems purposeless Like a rudderless ship, I am pushed around in this vast ocean of life I feel like a masochist, self-inflicting pain I seem to have been caught In a never-ending cycle of pain and misery When I can end it all in…

How does two soulmates meet? Maybe not a typical meet and greet story. Others tale might be good as mine, Like once upon a time in a wishing well, You just magically appear in front of me, And saying all the good and right thing….

Have you forgotten me yet? The ways it was easy? How I felt like home? How you were never alone? Have you forgotten the ways you wanted to please me the ways that I teased you and then delivered it all? So much time has…

I crave a children’s sized pizza. Guacamole, give me an avocado so ripe the top will fall off in my fingers. Smoosh that green puree onto my toast. Lustful mouth, ready to taste the blossom that is a mandarin off-season. These treacherous feelings will hunger…