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Find Us Dancing
Mind wanders off leash
spout faithful skyward,
to fall as unwitting heaven.
A shared message spreads…
Hat Rabbits
Goldie Hawn stirs a rainbow leafs against sky
animate and dance in mind, providence of spread
legs a journey west, stumble into a mine shaft to…
Trying On Life
Holster ready, all you did was
ask. If you put it another way I
might’ve just let it pass. Your…
Sifting Lizards
Informace, at risk of excluding the
rest, finger raised distinguishing this
from that, a process arrives at Hiroshima…
Emerging Escalator
Patch water what have yous
strength in visions maintained
ponder vault skull fortress etching…
Lingua Franca
Falling over backwards
some truth yet said, mirage lips
covet a single syllable…
Laurels of my Life
Could rest all day on laurels of my life
lounge in the safe of my memory bank
my personal theatre replaying the hits…
No Telling
What would our world be without
eyes to look into, what manners
does this table set demand? Sharp,
smooth, pointy all fit in hand…
Fallen Tree
You waited for our company
the lucky couple you chose to
share your last moments with.
Passing unsuspected you give…
Beyond Grounded
Young as those towers crumbled
into dust, too young to know what
could become of the world, too
many spaces to fill, bewildered…
Dissipating Call
If time knew an answer it would turn and run.
When lighting goes, seldom rung mixture
springs to life, tension release felt throughout…
Ann Darrow
An insurmountable lift
caught in life’s talons
feet kicking for ground
desperate for any burden…
Splicing Dawn
Your tears vibrate my nipples,
on the off chance you’re
watching National Treasure.
A bespoke setting far…
Changing Lessons & In From Eternity
To the river for what it’s worth
for the day’s final song, trees
when our feet touch the earth.
Galactic Jack, no glitter bomb…
A Portrait of Familiarity
Riding a bus
reflections from
a row ahead
the expression
of all that passes…
As You Pass By
Seated in awkward furth, great against the ground
forlorn when overhead, piece twice a maker
cough drama expels pent fascinations that come
to reside in quonset formations ever cooed by…
How Your Eyes Search For Mine
How your eyes search for mine whenever you smile,
sends my heart away then I have to chase it back. Home
in sight after 7 years at sea, treasures spill onto shore.
Puts a loudspeaker to the statue of David’s internal dialogue…
Mighty Socket
If you long to song don’t beat about it,
pick up a stick to believe in limewire.
Mighty socket the ground beneath our
feet, and it gives us stuff to eat. Flick a…
Pastiche a la mode
That smudge on my desk looks like a long neck dinosaur,
always the best thing to happen, if it were up to me I’d live
off your kisses alone, if I look left a rubber ducky sails on,
lost in the magic at hand, Smash Bros boss battle, quotient…
When the Music was Made
All is still before you, it never went away,
funny to see how it all occurs today. For to
know one’s self it helps to have eyes, waiting
for the right pair to point at the beginning of…
Draft Vector
Supreme ruling over mile high state,
with arms crossed and backs firm it’s
made clear all seats are taken here, the
door that turned you away will hit you…
Big Jar Dreamer
The big Jar was a dreamer he said without a doubt,
unmatched in all but thinking he was somewhere else.
Then it got the best of him one day the other week,
those around couldn’t pretend to know what went down…
Mollusk Longings
How wants are a certain want, unexplained
from a heart full of roman candles, that fly
to what it desires most egging you to follow
their light. The same light seen by nuns who run…
Nodding Praise Our Annual Phase
Variable, that patch across the way,
by and large the same day to day,
ever sly trends reflect the mood of a
given day. Coaxing light helps heaps…
Salute-in-Song
Come rare through all that is above,
condense in style from ingredient isles
a selective chance you knew it had to be.
Sprung when the space was right, or was it…
Womb Would’ve Known
Shot from cannon with a cry, hands of anticipation
cradle and rejoice another plummet. Form of impressions
soft to the touch, a bundle of things to come…
Dressed For Holiday
Jettison my darling, find this common wake,
throwback pairs of defining lights, smirking
sky bounds…
Strolling Pie Fields
If you ordered a dream, I know how you’d take it.
Strolling pie fields, punctuated by ponds of boiling ramen.
Well well well what do we have here?
To phrase a feeling, the greatest gift is…
To Be in your Thoughts
Don’t know how I got here, but I’m happy to stay,
make myself comfortable, dance around and play.
Was it something I said that popped me in your head?
Nice of you to have me, you really didn’t have…
Re-minding Reminders
If sunshine be butter then
take me for bread.
Life’s sweetest sentiments
fall conspicuous as ripe
coconuts in Manhattan.
Night Needn’t Be
Every time I see you I leave with more to say,
I’m beginning to feel it could take a lifetime
to explain. I knew before you told me there was
something different about you…
Show Me The World
Expectation, fall into place, a falling
place, ahh you will soon learn things have
a way of going where few things go.
Jurassic acknowledgement, life finds…
Eternal Resolve
Pleasure running out my toes
greed blown from thy nose
sung in manor of mountain temple
obscuring boundaries when able…
seeing with infinity
At once at once
follows an order
beckoned to redeem
forgone reason in…
If It’s Time We Must Bear
Untool mind to spare time those steps
never taken. Relishing difference the
song of new eyes, a respectable space
comfortable, not overdone. An orbital…
Stand Up Steve
Paddles up mirroring messiah,
been awhile since we caught up,
as an aging surfer, he’s apprenticing
under a wave guru up north, one of…
Our Own Devices
Dip into nothing
skipping town,
Hawaiian slice
pineapple underground…
Forever Sweet Caroline
Don’t be surprised when the lady on the bench says into her phone,
“What do you mean my jet can’t land?” then tells her assistant next
to her to look up the flight authorization number, “no I’m here see
that’s unacceptable…
Clicking Reel
Letting out line, mind a clicking reel, wonky
film projector tempting realities to
sprout from skull and politely ask the present
for a dance, only to ruin her and take her place…
Kendall McClellan’s Lesson Plan: A Pandemic Miracle
We’d emerged from Baldwin and Hughes to “Let America
Be America Again” she took a brave stance behind the
lectern and said “when I made this lesson plan back in
Christmas break, I never would’ve guessed that the day…
Notes to Generation Fortunate Son
Fuzzy flags carried off planes
no one needs to ask about.
Spare my eyes the sight
society says to itself….
Her Way Never Lost
Her body a sound garden, storm swept sea
a passenger afloat, humming to her vibration…
She’ll Be Right
These mistakes go on to make themselves,
worthwhile experience registers of confirmation.
Hear a buzzing hive, your best has yet beecomb.
Nest away elixirs spices jewels and devices…
The Prophet Jeremiah
The prophet Jeremiah blends in a crowd, mustard brushes his sleeve,
out on divine parole, the stall line at Coachella proved larger than his bladder.
Tomorrow’s chariot of hope was nonchalant while asking for a plumber,
civilization’s trajectory oversight required Narcan resuscitation…
Monster’s Wading Room
No need to follow my path,
don’t know how to live with
instigating death.
A brown torrent five meters across…
Lever Room
Recrossing the boundary
hit by murmurs of stupidity
there’s no getting there without
self assurance, same spirit of…
All things looking of You
All things looking of you,
ripples trail a seaward vessel
spreading curves, a rhythm we
rolled once or twice…
We Stopped Just to Hear the Silence
We stopped just to hear the silence,
see the sky a blue we’re thankful for
a radiant pure blue
essence of blue…
More Than a Moment
More than a moment,
Count Cristo starship manor.
More than a moment,
singing circles of soul sayers
let loose from an environ plane…
Running with Turtles
Those feeling of ever after
a torrent of butterfly kisses.
Lazy grins bask in new moon
shadows, conceiving a heaven…
Sun Dilated
Rushing insides,
external inputs
buffer for an
inverse occasion…
Forced Funnel Cake
Winds will be winds passing pressure, proprietary imbalance
self organized energy spools dotting gust of telegramming gods.
What is that noise? Blinds scratching glass?
Is it the dying whimpers of a man whose mouth was replaced by a harmonica?
Roommates Spring 2014
Out of a driftless area the
lanky midwester calls Dubuque home
what is he doing here?
Standing in the sun for no particular reason…
When We Were Inseparable
When we were inseparable
things lost their reason.
mouths moved but nothing spoke
louder than those color pencil
sketches on my high school schedule…
Mauna Kea
Rising from red shale
golf ball-esque structures the
size of houses, scattered among
a remote volcanic remnant in absolute Pacific isolation…
Checks and Balances
In circles of squares
Often they forgets to look beyond,
To lines that bend for food or
A vote…
To The Enemies
I’ve been too young to understand why those
Towers crumbled, and watch what becomes
Of the world, less look for love, as tho
Spoiled on Jersey Shore or Next, still…
Observer
You looking on
Observer.
For I will be short in relating what it is I wish to say, to do otherwise is unjust to the matter…
Dwelling on Yourself
Well on the day I was born,
God paused for a sneeze.
Half alive, half yet to be known
A recoiled pause, before unleashing…
Time Divides Time
Surely there’s another way, some forgotten track
A stone clasped hand, a wholesome shake.
Surely the water is right, dynamic cycles,
One arc fits all
We are no different…
Á la Dylan Thomas
Our days together, countless consexutive days.
It started with us on the ground,
a moment when something is so funny
your legs can no longer support you.
We rolled in laughter bellies aching, you had to be there…
Nice TA Nice
Saturday Shrimpy gets it, “nice TA nice,”
an easy Lords of Dogtown refrain
warms my heart in playful Pitas waves.
Rex soul arches his carver all the way to the boys,
Little Pieces
There are no words to describe this mystery in mind,
How it all became? What we are destined to?
So sit down and I’ll tell you how it all came true.
The fact of the matter, is hardly the case…
MInd Rant
Nominal phenomenal
we reach for what then is, or is not talk through the earth,
to listen through which we can not see,
for the truth mean no such thing…
Letters of Measure 