I swing a bat and I
wonder, will you be back
still the weight
pulls from my toes the earth
transfers to the swing
of a bat and into the wide,
wide air
littered with freeform splotches
they say it is much easier to miss
than to hit
the missing lines a thousand
to one
yet when I consult the back of
my shoulders, the muscles taut against [...]
Archive for July, 2008
Batting Average.
Posted in Poetry on July 28, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
The Nameless
Posted in Fiction on July 25, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Another bit of fiction to whet your appetite:
I walk among trees. These are not the ancient ones that weather the decades with grace and class. Nor they the bamboos of my youth, who regenerate with every new spring, their young chopped, cooked, and served with rice. They are simply the suburban ones. Though they may [...]
Taste of a Summer Weekday
Posted in Poetry on July 16, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
pen cap days
the hiss of aluminum tears
against the pitch black sand
humid air under canvas skirts
palms impressed by hope
like red stitched balls
I dream of keyboards
unsmudged
above is a purplish glaze
of buildings ablaze
lightning bugs and dragon flies
cast iron memories
with a drop of egg
all yellow like
grand
I am swatting clouds
my father only a windshield wipe away
ever still the whining blips
threaten [...]
Ape in Space.
Posted in Poetry on July 13, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Bake me a pie
he speaks in pixelated pitch
not waves
an old masonry face
all red, chipped
my mother bows
like three smooth stones
tossed into the moss tempered
pond
in complicit silence
I am still a child
anger a sand tickling between my fingers
my father’s mass
unequally distributed in his ass
I wished for a trebuchet life
as far removed from his
trajectory
as this sputnik diploma
allows
but am I [...]
Haiku Fortune.
Posted in Poetry, Snippet on July 13, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Rollie pollie legs
Fortune cookie fantasies
Buy the one in red
Waiterrant.
Posted in Uncategorized on July 12, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
There is a blog I have been reading/following since the beginning of 2005. The blogger is an anonymous waiter living in the East Coast who has worked as a waiter for a long time. He dropped out of the seminary when he was young (he was planning on being a priest), and now lives alone [...]
Pace.
Posted in Poetry on July 11, 2008 | 1 Comment »
I don’t got your kind of pace
the lingering kisses
elbows on window panes
how our shadows used to dance
against wavering candles
dinners that became breakfasts
that LP spinning round and round
till our worlds came standing
still
I just don’t got your kind of love
pines letting their white burdens
down and I am buried but
hands melt against my burning cheeks
your slip falls easily [...]
Posted in Poetry on July 8, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Take an inner breath
a journey with me
deep
into my world
a place where nests arrive over doorways
a piece of string among a bunch of sticks
lands where girl meets boy
boy falls in love
girl falls in love
love is made
love is lost
love is found again
kept
treasured flowered married
when you are here you will breathe again
walk among untroubled waters
rest your ankles, the [...]
(Un)Holy Brew.
Posted in Poetry on July 8, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Caffeine
liquor of the heavens
receive
the supplications of your worshippers
morning afternoon evening
the steam rises
like incense to nostrils everywhere
a sigh
swirl toil
I think of argyle socks bunched
stuffed in shoes
scuffed
a tired rub of the shoulders
a loosened tie
Tuesday evening and
I long for a Monday morning brew
a bitter drink for bitter moods
soften this night
O Jesus of Nazareth.
The Grocery Store.
Posted in Poetry on July 3, 2008 | 1 Comment »
sodas tossed
green onions bent
playing hide and seek with
the cashier’s eyes
thank you
silent
damn you –yet the words unspoken
a styrofoam boat of boneless ribs
a bottle of syrah, he must be rolling in his grave
the patron saint of animals
of birds
there’s one right outside my window
picking at the fine metal mesh
wishing he would break through
so I could break through
summer heat
irritation [...]
