panning rush
a man made of leatherlooks backwondersthen wanders
I swallow aburning pomegranatecommon rockssloshing in the silt of my weedy water
please come back
sift away my murk...
Spring nights, too, I wandered uptownunsheltered devouringfree-floating particles of other people’s conversationsguzzling the scent of milky treesfrothingshoweringpromises at my feet
I wondered what we would be...
Karl in the Coffee Shop
Somewhere along the way I findcontentment beside thecouple at the café, happily dazed in maritalstupor, contemplating their thousandth crossword,the epic...
silence.
i answer yourtight-lipped disapproval with
eternal
silence
as you parallel yourselves in slow-movingrows these few minutes feel
eternal
and silence
composes my complacency.your thick-skinned composure
eternally
silent
while the assessmentcontinues to
eternity
silently
rests in the...
