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

Sycophant milquetoast running from your brown nose Everyone superior looked down on in the mirror Apologetic worm

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

perched upon the table made of oak and maple stones carved of cedar and sycamor… is grandpa’s checkerboard when mom and dad play rummy

summer brings slurries wicked sticky sleet drops puddling, pooling, icicles drippin… slush gushes from the frosted roof… winter heat fries the egg

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

Djarum special. Spice of smoke. On my porch, breathing tobacco and clove. 2pm, August 13, 2023.

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

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

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

mechanical horses line up at the g… riders clad in straps of leather contemplating their fate Akira Koike takes up pole positio… favored to win

a porch light leads me home glowing bright like a lighthouse beam warning of the rocky shoals the farmland sky at night

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

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

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