A weird vision for this afternoon… A strange sort of preserve Gelatinous mass in amber and lime A fantasy of suspension in color and time Distortion as vision no resolution no rhyme Sheen without decay desiccated—dry A word in shape but not sound (11 June 2019) Wishes sometimes have consequences is available—order now from your [...]
So much for hope… My legs have gone Jell-O® I can barely stand here in line Is it the thwarted anticipation or the gut punch that’s got me this time? The build-up or the letdown who can say which is worse? I might have an answer to that but this here beer and the peanut [...]
There’s always that last moment of hope… Silence absorbs the wash of colour unconcerned with the voices still chattering on below Colour spreads like a perfume undetectable at first then you notice… something… Skin tightens—hairs stand on end mood stirs eyes close Deluge confronts anticipation the winner takes all Winter ghosts ravel into spring ash-grey [...]
The conflation of a couple of things led to this… The gloss, the veil— whatever you want to call it— has been removed We have reverted to our raw state before the film formed, accumulated before we knew anything before we had memory The world as we know it has not ended but neither will [...]
Wrote this yesterday, but forgot to post it… Take them all wear them proudly: ‘My name is Alfred E. Neuman and I’m running for president’ Snowflakes have no sense of humour you can melt them all with just one smile ‘I’m Crazy Elizabeth Warren and I approve this message’ win them over with just one [...]
However this phrase came to me, I thought I should try to write something for it… The light turns warm and floods the room The blanket keeps the feeling in and the horror out The heat from the drink radiates throughout my body Sleep rewards me with a dream I will always remember The picture [...]
Thinking about the day after watching short documentaries about Yazoo and Erasure on YouTube… I’ve been feeding myself tension all day not quite pretending not quite giving it all away Never mind what I did or didn’t say I would have forgotten as much on any other day What’s going to happen will happen either [...]
Something lighter after my previous entry… You look kind of like that actress who was in that movie that came out oh, last year some time— I didn’t actually see it but I remember the trailer from TV— you’ve got her eyes (or maybe she has yours) Maybe that’s why I kind of feel like [...]
Started the day off with a very strange phone conversation… Yes, you walked me to the door said goodbye asked me to call when I got home I left about four if I get home too late it takes me longer to get to sleep No, it was four in the afternoon you saw me [...]
Written earlier this evening during a poetry reading. Hanging lonely from the duct-taped air conditioner performing a curlicue in the doorway before terminating in a pair of prongs two feet above the threshold (31 May 2019) Wishes sometimes have consequences is available—order now from your favorite local bookstore! IndieBound search: https://www.indiebound.org/search/book?keys=wishes+sometimes+have+consequences If they can’t get [...]
