Knocking

Will you come in through the door, knocking, asking to be let in? Or are you gonna kick that sucker down?   I was born inside the house, kept inside for my health and wellbeing protected inside. Where am I meant to go now?  …

Six from the prompt.

6. (Wallace Stevens says) we say God   (Wallace Stevens says) we say God and the imagination are one. I’m as curious about what one is – is one ever? – as I am about what God may be. (Besides a woman.) (I tire of…

Inside out, upside down

My heart bleeds, I can feel the blood running down my torso, between my breast like a waterfall of warm liquid. But I pull,  I pull even harder. I can feel my pain, my crushing, self destructive pain But I ignore it And still I…

Poem 5

Dearest Footprint Your presence fills me with delight Dearest Footprint There was a carriage Passed this way An hour ago Headed to the pike It did not have an engine And it did not have a sight Every ticket was bought Out of some complex…

Three Timed Stanzas

I. 60 Seconds The neighbor’s circular saw fills the humid summer afternoon with the incessant sound of buzzing II. 90 Seconds When we were children we would put our swimsuits on under our shorts and t-shirts put a beach towel in a bag ride our…

bugged

The cockroach lying on the sidewalk in front of me is dying on his back, legs flailing he looks like he is doing a workout video ‘exercise yourself to good health’ Kafka wrote of men, cockroaches cockroaches never write they don’t even know from wrong…

Umwanted update

I did not ask For update now In midst writing Stupid cow An hour’s past and here I sit I requested days to better fit But you have now Hijacked my form A poem behind I am forlorn

It’s You

You never seen me when I was around, I never made myself noticable to you until now. Childhood crush faded away when I moved away. Somehow, life placed us right here, right now. Living different worlds young running into different paths in separate ways into adulthood…