what giving creature is this

something like a whispered song

Sunday, June 11, 2017

be present

how do i approach the edge of my everything and leap with the conviction of a man in search of a fickle faith? i am the promises and the comfort of things i offer to a select few, but beyond that i am mostly deferred by the dead and living among me who dog me as spirits chase the frenzied man into corners of vacated houses i want that i should go sightless...

Tuesday, June 6, 2017

the soul is the master of itself

he frets: what passion is this that comes dawning over my horizon like a prowling feline? i am unawares and ill-prepared, my heart now inflated, my mind thrown into flux make it stop! (but stop it slow) make it cease! (but fill me first) i'd say to him: consider every new love is an  exercise in delicate variations of chaos, its violence truth to the core he paces in a stir and says to the muse who brought him here:...

Thursday, June 1, 2017

little. league

i remember matty from little league who'd broken his arm from elbow to wrist while going after a sharp grounder to short, how he wailed in the dust of the infield while we players all looked on i stood absently in left field watching the chaos of running grown ups and seeing the faces go white as the boy was carried off the field by his father, who let a cigarette dangle between his lips, the smoke slipping soundlessly across his son's pinched face a...