Not So Endless

Scalped bodies with familiar hairscattered almost everywherehave faded into nothingbut a memory.I can’t trust the pastas its presented as far as I can throwthe person reading outthe version that they have of it.We teach with plastic walls put upfor temporary days in the mostfleeting ways to just distractfrom all the gaps leftin the open for […]

Part Of Things

Friends talking at an outside tablewhere the road is within earshotand the passing cars salute themwith their presence and remindthem where they’re goingafter dinner.I think about it all the timethe corner streets whereI could walk if I was blindand spun around three timesto test if I was joking.She talks about penguinsand the dogs that we […]

Hale

I have heard enough out of youin those small orders barkeddown spiral staircasesechoing off the brickagainst my ears caughtin the gears of this machinery.You look out for youand I do the sameand we pretend that thereare no games in betweenthe way we talk aboutour nightly dreams.I want to stay out of the deserteven though its […]

Break Away

Two mountains without snow,because there low comparedto others that you hear about,have waited in the distancelooking on.I try to bring them back againand cast them against this brick wallI am faced with almost everydaywhen I am not awayand sorry I can’t be there.Lily pads are never quite as perfectas they’re depicted almost everywhereyou see them.In […]

Dust

I like to dance with what’s impossiblebut she moves in ways that make it hardto focus on almost anything but her.I’ve spent way too many summers in the wakeof what I wished was still the winterbut it ends when it ends like alwaysand the whole world just pretendsthere’s nothing happening.It’s all so fragile like a […]

Never Never

I’m too much,like a box full of old memoriesyou cannot movewithout getting someone to help you.I’m the music way too loudout of a speeding car that’s passingthrough for one day and it’s ruinedfor that moment I am there.I am the rain that fallsat the worst times and my minimumhas always been a storm you can’tget […]

Linger

The windows all are broken outof a beat up van abandoned in the desertand the scorpions are already moved in.There’s a spaceship in the living roomand the grandparents don’t knowwhat to do but keep on saving moneyin their pillow cases.That old stallion won a hundred racesstuck on both ends of the oddsand met the gods […]