Three and a half in a two hour zone. Can’t bring anything, just your jacket if you won’t take it off. Can’t sign it like that you gotta sign it like your license. But it’s just a… Forget it. Initial here, do this now, do this like that. Whacking away at a low resolution computer, [...]
Archive for October, 2008
Breathe.
Posted in Snippet on October 27, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Autumn.
Posted in Poetry on October 24, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Rolling a maple leaf between my fingers
a dusty page of a life well-lived
Ezekiel, these auburn bones,
can they live?
a simple breath tickles through my toes
I spill my glass
and wonder when
she’ll come home tonight
Fallen
Posted in Poetry on October 17, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
A fallen dream
is not a failed one
an impossible one
just because you taste the dirt
the fresh, metallic, wet smell
seeping up your embarrassed nostrils
don’t mean a thing.
momma used to take
the fallen buttons
and even though she used the wrong colored string
my clothes still closed
hung the way they supposed to
you see a moving fist
a trajectory of soft cartilage [...]
Kettle Corn Dreams
Posted in Poetry on October 9, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
silly crunching on pockets of air
stuck in starch explosions
an unraveling hem
of a passing skirt
I shall not let go
inspire
me
Ode to McCain and Palin.
Posted in Poetry on October 3, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
First I was angry
moments when I would shake my fist
and throw balled up receipts at the glass face
of my television set
then I was afraid
needing to put my pen to paper
lift up a needy prayer
to a supposed common Friend
I need not cross Atlantic or Pacific
to meet, to negotiate
diplomate
the enemy is within
our gates
then I was bewildered
trying to [...]
