i've defaulted on a few loans
lately and the lenders have now closed
their windows to me
for not meeting their terms
perhaps i'm sorry or
just not taken in by the
rate of interest and how it all felt
like an ambush of serpents
i prefer equal terms scribed
within the bright tails of those luminaries
with whom i've shared some
meteoric passing
an exchange of corresponding
light against a contrasting dark
no unparallels
no imbalances in our intensities
you...
Friday, September 30, 2016
Monday, September 26, 2016
your dry field
i'm a thunder advancing
the edges of your field,
crawling in a scold,
rumbling toward that
squalid acre
where you pitched a
flag to stake a claim
with a tongue that
carries the poison
of asps
yours is a field turned to
scrub, bordered now by bramble;
no more dancing daisies, happy gilia:
all of it burned by
the transgressions of your lips
you summoned this heat
that has dried your
range and drained
the waters underfoot
and now
look at you
pouring...
Tuesday, September 13, 2016
we had our forests
we had our forests,
my father and i,
where i witnessed the
sanctity of his gesture
on walks that trimmed
our margin
a hike taken in a place
with precipitating light
and inscribed
with the words of god
what mastery
of yours
did you bring to
that place for me!
my shepherd
in a cathedral of
spruce and pine,
steeplebush and needle
bowing my youth
and making souvenirs
of...
Wednesday, September 7, 2016
my serenity
i.
i became vexed
by your capture
and the menace of
your leveling domains
foaming torrents
coalesced
beneath your brow and
exuded an eliding patience
i in my swagger
pranced in a boast,
delighting with
the purples of hubris but -
soon weighted and cowed
by the sway of
your scowling lectures
and fisted ragings
you wore me to the
thinness of a sighing
wafer and in my...
