How
do you go
to the dollar theater
like you planned
to see La La
Land
after you find out she
is in the hospital
for suicidal
thoughts?
You
don't. Instead,
you stay late at work
until you fix something
and then you go home
and cry and pray and
write because they
are the same
tonight.
04 April 2017
La La Land
22 March 2017
spring and other things that spring eternal
The plants I thought I killed
at least three times once by
drowning once by freezing and
once by thawing too early may
have survived my ineptitude as
there are three sprouts shooting
up from the darkness of the soil
in the pot in my garage all winter
like hope springing eternal until
you find out it's three weeds but
you don't care because everything
is finally coming alive once again.
at least three times once by
drowning once by freezing and
once by thawing too early may
have survived my ineptitude as
there are three sprouts shooting
up from the darkness of the soil
in the pot in my garage all winter
like hope springing eternal until
you find out it's three weeds but
you don't care because everything
is finally coming alive once again.
21 March 2017
fruit we deny ourselves
How
did I ever
live for years
without tasting
a single
berry?
What
was I
punishing
myself
for?
did I ever
live for years
without tasting
a single
berry?
What
was I
punishing
myself
for?
05 March 2017
dream books
when I took the medication to sleep,
I think I dreamed of a book series
never written yet outside my dreams,
and I awoke wanting desperately
to re-read it in the waking world
18 February 2017
gutter glaciers retreating
Watched torrents
of meltwater reduce
the gutter glaciers
of winter and sat
in the sun without
my coat while a fly
staggered around
on my sleeve, which
was also unsteady
because I think we
were both a little
blissfully baffled and
drunk on spring
in February.
of meltwater reduce
the gutter glaciers
of winter and sat
in the sun without
my coat while a fly
staggered around
on my sleeve, which
was also unsteady
because I think we
were both a little
blissfully baffled and
drunk on spring
in February.
14 January 2017
11 January 2017
prayers
Until you can see
again, I'll write poems
you can't read that
are really prayers because
even though you don't
believe anymore,
I still do.
06 January 2017
to the wounded one
How are you doing,
wounded Brother Wolf?
Praying you have found
a cave to rest in
curled up surrounded
by warmth and peace of
some sort while you heal.
02 January 2017
03 December 2016
the blessings of blogging
How amazing it is
that when I will be reading
my work in public, even if
I have been in too much pain
to write much for months,
I can come
here
and find
so much wealth
to plunder.
that when I will be reading
my work in public, even if
I have been in too much pain
to write much for months,
I can come
here
and find
so much wealth
to plunder.
19 September 2016
12 September 2016
if you still loved me sometimes
what I
would like
to know
would like
to know
sometimes
is if
you
still loved me
sometimes
even when
you hated
me
is if
you
still loved me
sometimes
even when
you hated
me
all the dragonflies of summer's end
nothing will prevent
the ending of summer
yellow dragonflies
cannot slow it
red dragonflies
cannot stop it
green dragonflies
watch it go
10 September 2016
Only touched by memory
Wasps and yellow jackets starving
in late summer, even their crawling
brings pain be still anyway
in late summer, even their crawling
brings pain be still anyway
Again something settles so lightly
heavy wings brush my leg minutes
before I get the courage to look
heavy wings brush my leg minutes
before I get the courage to look
Golden dragonfly perches, wind
flutters tickling wings until I am
clumsy only touched by memory
flutters tickling wings until I am
clumsy only touched by memory
09 September 2016
07 September 2016
06 September 2016
03 September 2016
Grimly curious
we'll find out
how many things
on the to-do list
can be done from
the couch with
only one knee
properly elevated
and resting
29 August 2016
22 August 2016
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