The eye sees what it wants to One headlight A creaky door opens The coyotes posed atop of the hill Wishes coat the iris The truth is hazy The screams pierce the veins The chains rattle One headlight It follows It steers The street dogs howl in unison […]
Seeking freedom Circle upon circle there’s no exit Running through the hoops No way to bend the mind The circles strangle For they are perfectly round Round and round With no way out The road ends at the beginning Concentric circles sound so pretty Prettyily we talk Mightily […]
A blue mouse isn’t individualism: Run The bins stand still. She has watched too many action movies lat eat night. She kept turning back to look at the bins expecting an escaped prisoner to jump out and run across the room. She stared at her pretty blue mouse. […]
You can’t change a vindictive heart Cold, cold heart Angry, bitter heart A vindictive heart can’t be changed Steely eyes Determined to bring your ruin No words of wisdom soften their blow Cold, cold heart Angry, bitter heart A vindictive heart can’t be changed False tongue […]
Broken mirrors you feared Supposed seven years of bad luck Born with shards for a life path No escaping the mirrored fate Despite the shards, you lived Despite the shards, you gave Broken mirrors, fractured self Saw a monster watching in the dark didn’t run but didn’t stare […]
He closed his eyes and sighed Powerless to change the course I clicked my heels but didn’t disappear He went off instead into the netherworld I cried Stripped my pride There was no stride He was gentle and small The fuzziest cheese curd Nothing but love Why […]
My playground heartbreak It had to happen. It just did because things are what they are. My son is an extremely happy child. Everyone notes that about him from random strangers in Japan, to his doctor, to his school principal. He is after all “the mayor.” We sit […]
The age of my discontent or Mid-life opportunities? There are some individuals out there that were born in the midst of a mid-life crisis. You know those people. I suppose one can say they were born with a Woody Allen soul. I am not one of those people […]
I Happily Unplugged My Bedroom Clock I cannot sleep with a light on unless I am dog-boned tired and exhausted. I love laying down and seeing darkness. Pitch black darkness. Somehow that is soothing to me. Of course, as a kid, I didn’t like that very much. In […]
Twenty years ago I began a longstanding love affair. I heard a song by Primitive Radio Gods that noted “her plane takes off from Baltimore and touches down on Bourbon Street.” I then followed suit on a now defunct TWA airline. I was overly-dressed and suffering from a […]
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