6.26.2013

6.21.2013

an understanding

give me a record deal
(i dare you)




lightning on the sidewalk create me in your image
there’s a reason everything disappeared last night
i want you feeling certain you understand why i came to your house
why i showed up in the middle of a bad personal fight
well

lover make me anxious
at least have the decency to put your purse outside
lover make me angry
when the rain comes it will ruin everything in sight

do you feel certain you understand why i came to your house
why i showed up in the middle of a bad personal fight
lightning on the sidewalk cremates me in your image
everything disappears at night…and…

lover make me anxious
at least have the decency to put your purse outside
lover make me angry
when the rain comes it will ruin everything in sight

do you know why i knocked twice
well i knocked twice 
do you know why i came to your house last
 

6.19.2013

if it feels good do it




 































"if it feels good do it" it was this advice which finally enabled me to accomplish--without sacrificing the least degree of personal comfort at any time--every great work deed and act of faith god had ever commissioned of me

6.14.2013

circle

it should go without saying (and maybe it does) that any poem posted on this blog may not be in its final form.

remember, a poet is two things: 1) never wrong, and 2) always revising







Circle

bump bump sway

nineteenth maybe eighteenth century
carriage bumps over a path of stones
left by no one
exposed rather than laid
a body dead at the reins directs
mortal horses beautiful flanks manes history
bump bump sway

inside
the southern belle sweats
not so striking as she once was
before all the sinning
she is soft flat asymmetrical
bony in some places
she asks the corpse perched on the driver’s bench
when they will be arriving
bump bump sway

it must be a million degrees
the trees are more like magma than anything
coals have long since replaced the grass
beneath the sun three maybe four moons also burn
she tells the dead she believes
they may have passed this particular flame before
bump bump sway

not watching the path
he turns to speak through a wooden grate
he says,
“I want your body.”