the postcard
“There is something about this picture,” she penned…
“There is something about this picture,” she penned…
No legend came by it ignobly
It was a rickety rack and a rook at risk, all chess to be checkmated, I swear.
Give me the prick of suffering, then.
Your salted instance, a glinting bastion.
It starved me then. So I ate from it twice.
Maybe you’ve never seen a man lose his hope in the smoke…
Let me be…more than that bitter-root wine.
Maybe it doesn’t matter if you do right.
Leave me to live on your ceiling and, between us, well enough alone.
Happiness, I swear…
To what sunset should I sweat-lay the rail?
Jazzy Lou would be a song
the gulls would sing…
It rhymes its rack-and-ruin rise to the hope in my glacé eyes.
Read me with a genuine desire to see me.
Originally posted on WINDSTREWN:
In myriad ways, now and since, I’m less a formidable force than then, When I was…
Hope bore you home and when you came, mystery fell and broke open wide.
The children…called him “Tristeza del Padre.”
The cloth of music is sewn as the spiny drum spins its wonder-thread.
Swing your smile on my heart like children play
But I’ve become a worn welcome to chance, having dreamt near all I’ve done.
I have exactly three cardboard boxes that smell of musty rental storage.
I don’t dare care. Against what they say, I know.
The past is a curious optic.
And wheels within wheels is each cloud rolling across her eyes as they uplift…
It’s a sun-kissed day by this coastal balustrade…
Because two-steppin’ spins are highfalutin…
There’s a numbness in your sadness…
I’ve heard some say, ‘reason reigns.’
Inevitably, Pain and Love are banded…
An ache the late season achieves.
I am poetry.