smoke of my cigarette fades into the clouds perspective from my squinted eye through my dusty glasses dusk, August 11th, 2023

strings that bind manipulate each step we take future, past, present-day threads tangling

Lawn clippings left in my mouth Finest cheese weed Couldn’t produce a lick of saliva buzzing from the sativa August 12, 2023

charred scents linger within the astronaut’s mind suits, boots, glove fingers leave scent memories behind reek of burnt toast and sulfur

we are still evolving who have we become our thoughts and doors revolving all problems still need solving as we orbit our dying sun

subdermal dust spots speckled like freckles across the nose of a woman next door on her balcony

breath of sky on her spine creeping, chilly blows flow down to her thighs the slightest summer wind

back aboard the ship Captain Luna sat with Bart pressing him; how’d you manage this little slip? you were once my savvy knight

Been called a jabroni for lighting a stogie. Inhaling the relief, exhaling my grief. Dawn, August 13, 2023.

Flutter of conure wings a young girl sings leaning on the railing of her apartment balcony home from her date

gravity takes ahold of his body an… talons, pinning his shade by the n… on a cold night, dim lit stretch o… underneath a flickering street lig… wings, carrying his body and stret…

a chandelier of rainbows tattooed below her eyebrow blush and bruised, Captain Luna inspected the sloppy crew dressed in their business suits

gasoline on my FOX TV I don’t want your MSNBC make a shrine to remedy burn all these effigies went outside, sun felt hot

golden angel hair strands upon the earth needles of the bull pine scattered on the grass and dirt trap fallen raindrops

lava oozes down the peak the sweat and heat, my body quiver… glowing golden, burning streams blazing, globbing, gobbling flames hungry molten rivers