20180320-1859 (jellyfish)

Jellyfish

the flight from ordinance
makes you long
for the grace of disarray

20190218-02072 (vertical wave)

Vertical Wave

you see pattern
coming at you like a tsunami
you won't escape its ordering

20180131-9064 (story)

Story

these tender buttons
of narrative
wrap you in piano wire

20180320-0971 (eye)

Eye

a wheel pinned to a cloud
braces the world
against the whole cloth of night

20180320-1312 (electric)

Electric

an airliner bee
struck by lightning
weeps jagged honey

20180320-1868 (sunrise)

Sunrise

sunrises are rigid these days
pulled from a spaceflower's ovule
by the bureaucrats of ether

20160228-9909 (spring)

Spring 

spring is cautious
early flowers
dance black and white

20180206-9395 (small book)

Book Wedge

rounded thoughts
perfect for a corner
back against the wall

20180206-9439 (bite)

Organic Bite

jaws rhizomic
threaded
the tongue a curled leaf

20180206-9494 (desire)

Desire

tract of eyes
nests of eggs
desire cradled in nacelles

20180206-9476 (triptych)

Triptych

two subjects and a god
three peas in a pod
reverence is odd

20180205-9363 (politics)

Politics

sedimentary speaking
in public
folded promises

20180131-9208 (lost)

Lost

our broken devices
things we carried
fallen away

20171009-07226 (celebration)

Celebration

given our inertia
our celebrations must be
glitter in turmoil

20171219-07623 (jailed)

Jailed

books in prison
where they belong
safe from us

20171224-07805 (frame)

Frame

without frames
there'd be billowing
we'd all go mad

20171110-07441 (question)

Question

questions have eyes
that stare
from skeins of asking

20171219-07481 (head-dress)

Unidentified Adornment

a flying saucer
lands gently
on a female planet

20171219-07465 (staircase)

Mortality Staircase

rising from darkness
up into
a second darkness

20171025-07277 (Vincent)

Vincent

the sun gone
for the great painter
darkness taps his shoulder

20171103-07389 (pagoda)

Pagoda

a prayer bottle
turned on the lathe of time
still smiles like the Buddha

20171103-07322 (Cohen)

The Weight

Dear Leonard
singing the weight
of the world

20171103-07350 (constellation)

Constellation

Like a football
helmet in space
writhing with perforation

20171025-07262 (ghost)

Slapstick

nothing shakes the spirit
anymore
rubber ghosts giggle in the dark

20171025-07253 (thought)

Horns

a thinking head
beaded with peregrination
cuckolded by light

20171025-07247 (nightscape)

Rough Night

night leaves
the sky in tatters
over a hoarse forest

20170928-06933 (hope)

Careful careful

hope is hoisted
into view
a monstrous invitation

20171007-07148 (ready)

A-Okay

the hollow okay
its see-through promise
who can believe it?

20171007-07128 (hand)

Hand

heavy as a footstep
a hand baking in time
like bread

20171014-07239 (radar)

Radar

the all-seeing weave
plaited by the fingers
of floodgate war

20171007-07142 (mountain)

Facets

shapeless mountains
tumbled and shaved
into gemstones

20171007-06982 (rising)

Rising

morning lifts
night escapes
with a hiss

20171007-07007 (song)

Song

acupuncture in the dark
hot needles
a song of pardon

20171007-07087 (splash)

Great Leap Forward

splash
springs like a tiger
quiet light rips

20171007-07043 (soul)

Sweet Home Sweet

the soul
a sugary bubble
in vulvic space

20170928-06917 (across)

Floaters

cities drown
in the watery eye
of earth

20170815-05959 (reflection)

Eyelashes

the night opens
on eyelashes
their insect antennae

20170920-06808 (crowd)

Flowerbelle

florid planet
of the little prince
a clamoring of blossom

20170227-05500 (you attempt)

Trepidation

crossing a line
of language
the shrieking moon

20170801-05629 (VR headset)

Virtual Bakery

a twist of privacy
a crumb cools
on your napkin

20170911-06642 (dream)

Equus

a capsule of nocturne
dissolves
the streaming horse

20170227-05456 (caterpillar)

Eye to the Ground

caterpillar
crawls on its knees
over graffiti-earth

20170731-05573 (shadow puppet)

Shadowlands

each single bead
of your dancing bliss
lodges in my shyness

20170811-05903 (scream)

Recharged

wait for
the rollercoaster scream
of your prompted heart

20170808-05797 (galaxy)

Space Dust

our prison of plenitude
we walk its sawdust
of winking light

20170829-06340 (a novel)

Novel

in my novel
are many mansions
still unfinished

20170812-05922 (desktop)

The Night Watch

a rubber porter
guards the dark
hotel

20170829-06214 (wood)

Fossil

the old crocus
turned finally
to wood

20170831-06368 (helmet)

Cuspidor

conspiring bucket
cradling the slops
of the soldier

20170827-06076 (myth)

Palimpsest

ancient stories
curl in the fire
where the caves are deep