Out here in the desert, Everybody bites, pinches, or stings. When my hound learned rattlesnakes were bad (I was grateful for the fence between them) My neighbor taught me to Pin its head and neck with something heavy Decapitate it with a shovel (don’t…

I do not wish to write a poem about a spider instead of I want to write about a fly that does not want to die a pest but see himself as an aviator, a hero of the World War. Or maybe about a Dean…

Spider   Spider don’t crawl towards me like my lover   Spider don’t entangle me in your web like my lover   Spider don’t spit  venom on me like my lover

When is a kiss not a kiss? a slapping together of lips an infestation of tongues What is a kiss? dance of the eyelashes a covered smile tips of hands meeting, a second When does not a kiss become a kiss? When does love not…

Eternity Now I don’t know what I want but I want it now You never live once failure is the only option turn around and say goodbye to your Euridice seize the death Death to your answers evermore evermore endless summer and blessed night

Cymbals of lightening chant of thunder the dance of rain orchestral thunderstorms symphony of summer

checkered shirt, checkered past heart shaped buttons, heart of gold sunflower print pants, sunny disposition diamond studded skulls, diamonds in her eyes clothing, personality fashion, an inverted telescope of the soul into the world

Would you never   Would you never try to seek everything thou left to me? Would you never tell me thy existence was based on this love?   Form- Golden shovel (Never seek to tell thy love by William Blake)

Nothing as perfect as a steaming up of tea in thin, transparent china, thrown against a wall. Nothing as exquisite as a pretty in pink petit fours on a rose bespeckled platter smashed into a pillow or a vase of white roses ripped apart like…

Different looks and poisons Make your web, unique and mighty  Curiosity draws them near you Fear, or respect, run them away  Simple yet complex Perfect and flawed Irresistible and undesired  Daunting and appealing  Eight legs, one spider Real or fake is a powerful tike jj2017