what giving creature is this

something like a whispered song

Thursday, July 20, 2017

my baby, she got toes

my baby, she got toes sunk so deep in that morning grass that she says, daddy, i can't walk. and i say no, i can't pick you up, you need to walk honey, it's just from the dew my baby, she got hair blond as the sun, and it shine in july the way the heavens weep down on the forgiven and i say, i love you, and she look at the tree with the horse swing...

Monday, July 17, 2017

shed

there is a spirit of her in the things she wears when she disrobes and disarms after a long day and she leaves a pile of clothes in the bedroom and with them she leaves a pile of echoes in the small heap of pants and blouse, socks and bra and she loosens her life and unlatches her clasp on a certain reality outside these walls; her release of a cold day is the emission...

Thursday, July 13, 2017

the lily, for good

i recognized the face of the girl who passed away recently and to whom friends were writing messages of love and loss across the sterile wires we went to high school together, i'm sure of it, yet we never spoke and today the idea of that leaves me in an echo chamber with my own clanging sorrows i sit and ponder the face of a woman, once fully-fleshed...

Sunday, July 2, 2017

love is curtains toward a view

i'm waiting for my turn on the stage with the seashell footlights shining silhouettes against a cream-colored scrim i'm waiting my spotlight - how can it be so not simple? i sit in a bedroom with white curtains, a fan oscillating on a desk, cooling my fever while behind me is the bed in which we made love last night i can't make my art today for...