Reverb
A thousand ideas bouncing and bounding inside my head, knocking the smoke out of me, drumming up plans for the day after…
Poems
Auntie rarely talks about
The numbing aftershocks as four farm families buried sons in closed caskets, automobile rubble robbing her last chance…
feu.
The smoke doesn’t choke me anymore. I took the hell you made for me and made it home…
An Ode (Apology) to My Lungs
Some catalyst would send my heart racing, my lungs suddenly too large for my rib cage. Mouth glued to a vaporizer…
In Parts
My friends detonate their truth bombs right in my face.
My Secret Body
Not meant for fingers or your branding pain, my skin turned inward that day…
Obituary
He fell from fatherhood, and said the fall was slow, like water through wood. He said he didn’t know. That’s all.
In the Mirror, For My Mother
In the bathwater I see rose petals falling on a little girl in pigtails & sundress reaching for your manicured hand In the mirror I see raindrops
Zenstronomy
Zen of Instruction
You say, “Hey, you know,
that makes a lot of good sense!”
I feel gratified.