Category Archives: Poetry

ten thousand embers galaxied
like an evening mass
three forgotten children
mouthing seat-belts
my cup is half-full
at times, until prayer
that vine of yellow blossoms
beautiful, though covering Blind Child
the most thankful farmer
taking soil for granted

wednesday at the park
towne center became
an anthill where
bmw blackcat’s
tore like sawteeth
through a plank
at 23 miles a gallon
back and forth
back and forth

as he approached the streets
empty walls put away
four hundred gates
without ringing sundown
swung back
and went in

the coiled neck of a goose
allowing rest for
not nearly enough to be
a flock
these winged migrants
i am near them
hiding behind the vibrations of cicadas
their loose interpretation of creation
a breeze lasts longer here
taking breath from an audience
drinking it in with a sketchbook glass
six take dry shade as a mistress
search for feed in the weeds, and raise
a white eyelid for rest
one makes himself […]

a stuffed bear with
tinkertoys as arms
danced by an armchair
singing songs of circus
circling the magazines in
a figure-eight swiftly
sitting down silently
then made bubble sounds
through spit and sorrow
as a sparrow-headed
spaniel shouted
“sing another! sing another!”