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The Tattoo I Didn’t Get

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trapped  in a  blizzard
of                mink-clad
nymphs
drowsy  with    donor
fatigue
in     the     land     of
edward
scissorhands
where                   the
infomercial    is    king
as   instinctive   as   a
vine
in   the  blue   marble
organism
which  doesn’t  allow
the other—
the sea or the shore?
“this is me,” says
she,
saying ‘good-bye’
and       the       door
becomes murky
and  I’ve  seen  this
murk before
is   anyone    asking
questions
anymore?
while    in
this       détente
you give me a
“pre-emptive strike”
so     how     are     we
supposed to be
a six-legged couple?
right now, I’m going
to go
into  town  and  rape
some
grand pianos
intention     is     one
thing
effect is another
but  nobody’s  name
goes    on
the   small   of   my
back!

The Poultry Put the Pieces of the Abduction Puzzle Together

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Barring the necessity
to castrate the bull,
the fence mender’s
ineptitude,
the cows wooing mooing—
an altogether staid day
begins on the ranch.

The smoking chickens
share a toke and a scratch
wearing clam digger feathers.
A bantam Red
was robbed last night.
Two foxes—unregistered
sex offenders.

Below, the souls of urchins
ruined by time and masters.
Subterranean red riverbed dried
springs amaranthine crops,
spirals and keys—
a dance of foreign semaphore.

Babylonian Bride

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this is no artist
statement
this isn’t about
troop movements,
ship sailings,
or war
equipment

this poem
writes itself
and wants
to be
a sonnet
I have not
said
a word
I am only
the bride

welcome
to the
agency
of my poem
I have been
fired
and I wish
to file
a grievance
that this
is not even
Italian

it is my
life
looking
downward
sterling
cross
kinetic
around
a soft nape
moaning
God bless this chest

how can
the heart
go on
from beyond
the living?
dead heart fools
how do they
attract?

do they come
out from
behind
the cold,
like summer?

I am at
the altar,
betrothed to
the 1st thing
that comes
down
the aisle

I am
an arranged
Babylonian
bride
a Christian
for the
lion

this wants
to be
the volta
what good
is a
volta
going to do
me now?

I washed
myself
like Jackson
Pollock
clean scented,
standing in
black
and grey
shoes—
one of each

I exist
in couplet