some days were all traffic
no let up
it was hard to even
get up
so many screens
so little time and who would believe
a moment of silence…
could feel
like
a crime
Category Archives: poetry
stun.gun
you were stunning
they were gunning
to meet you
if only they knew
what they were walking
into
soft fall
the grapefruit ice you stir
upon the delta breeze
while summer lost
the spark
calm down you need not
rush
the leaves to turn and
softly fall upon the crossing
walk
time to sit and talk
all the cell phones gone and what a world
would be. what a world
once
was and how we got along you
fingered my blouse i cried to think so
soon you would be
gone
song
the song of summer has ended
and we nest inside our city
apartments
these dawns thaw out long
after the sunrise. i cut most
my hair off and dive beneath
the complexities
i can smile waking up again. i
can find myself again
in the winter. i
can see my breath
singing
what makes you.you
what made you
you
i thought how our lives would
look without it
i would organize
i would protest
i would risk arrest and a violent
reaction and a drawn out
incarceration
without what made you
you
what makes me me
and us — we
cannot
be
4-5-6-7-8
the sun below ground at 4 o’clock
the sky could feel her
runnin in colors off a
glass
some kids got sent back to aisle 5 at the safeway
tryin to buy single coronas off a
six
i was searchin for my simple honeybee
bear and asked around. we found each other
in lucky no.7
across the street turned up 8 ounces
coffee. hot and fierce. not a bad start
for a day
not a bad start at all
stay present and you can handle
anything
kill it with truth
the ring you gave me years ago when
we were still in love
disappeared
i lost it. i did not know i had
in the lot adjacent to the autoparts store
touch up paint spilled so i scrubbed
my hands with pumice
oh
how we died. i cannot stand the memory the
fallout years ago
we could no more kill
it with kindness only
truth
