it’s been so long without a touch lips pressed deeply against mine fingers brushing through my beard… i have reclaimed my virginity bumbling and nervous in the presen…

avoiding cocoons pride is the caterpillar that shuns butterflies

stopped by a red light engine sputters memories he goes with what’s gone

the darker the room the more I needed her she was scented with tobacco and cedar

if ever he drowns a swimmer will miss water life regrets no death

dying of cancer saying her prayers they came to bathe her she asked if would hold her Rosary… “of course”

so close to travels rocks along the railroad tracks never board the train

she always turns a light on when she thinks of me checks under the bed to see if i left behind a kiss

put a million miles between me and… shoes worn away from the journey i will arrive with toes calloused feet stained in earth and legs swollen

i had most of the adults fooled the family was easiest they were none too bright what little smarts i had i must have got from my father

i walk like an appetizer onto the moonlight tongue the wine is in my blood

when the rest of the world seemed… and the invisibility of god was to… i turned to a puppet a stuffed brown dog i had named Gr… i confided in him earnestly

droopy dark circles around the eye… brown eyes sad eyes sometimes he pees on the floor they rub his nose in it

it was never my intention to clip… i was only trying to take a feathe… so that i would have something to… after you flew away