lilac trees & bumble bees
What is new?
on Jul. 26 2007
far from bulletproof
05:24 am
like someone crashing
in an airplane
sees the sky
the night is limit
-less, boundless, a burden
which never fulfills its promise
of peace
i soothe to the smooth
roll of the fan
am present in the room
am present in another
and another, flashes
of place and time
i roll to the rhythmic
sensuality of the fans
as the air from one
caresses the other
as the deep blue bed sheets
unbind at the corners
bunch in the center
call to my legs
to stop
which they refuse
as though were they not
treading i'd drown
on Jul. 1 2007
Rhode Island fall
12:24 am
you admire the hills
and blanketed leaves, multi
-colored flags which wave
frantically from the trees.
you don't know she died
in this state. you don't know
or understand my anger
which makes me unable
to even look at it. but none
of that is this. i am
another person in those
memories, sharper.
on June 28 2007
no ifs or ands
07:21 pm
turn around, serenade
07:18 pm
it's hard to imagine
that you'd later press
against me, hip
to hip, tongue
to tongue
in the back alley.
your wedding band
on the hand that gripped
my waist as if, once you let
up, i'd run inside
to laugh at how i'd conquered
the married man, not
understanding it was he
who'd conquered me. the guitar
strings have made your fingers
adept at strumming. even
from just seeing you
in pictures, i
sing.
old city
04:04 pm
in this draw-string pouch
of tooth-ache and heart-sting, men
jumbled around each other, limbs
loose and shiny as wax paper
holler out their claims
on my body: quiet alaskan expanse
more comfortable abandoned
than dug or plowed, planted, reaped
and sowed. in summer
the heat swells them. they bubble
and burst, lithe and heady, press
me against walls outside after midnight
moan when i moan, promise
what is never meant to be trusted.
dishwater
04:04 pm
disastrous dinosaurus
row row row
row row row row row row
row row row
one two three four
one two three four
one two three four
on the count of one
two
three
four:
do you have a ham
for easter dinner ?
do you eat it with
mustard, your wife
by your side? your
babies at the kid t
able?
am i on your mind?
am i am i am i on your mind
am i peanut butter,
am i ?
delinquent thoughts roam
like garden gnomes
in red bonnets.
we've been meeting
in this fantasy
for a month now,
nearly two.
