Every time I leave my parents’ ho… I am filled with a sweet sorrow. It has taken me half a lifetime to… and now I love them so dearly, so… They nor I are getting younger

It occurs to me now that no one hears my song. Still young, I am discarded. I don’t anticipate being surprised at my aloneness in old age.

Walking lakeside, I try to discern what the frogs a… but their drone is one collective… Diving again and again after the secret,

Torus, it’s shaped like, hang on, the number is as large as the planet.

I saw a man and his crumb snatcher… sprawled on the porch of their hom… it was painted a bright ocher with… small, modest, humble, clean, givi… A joy, in short.

Which came first, the egg or the h… An old friend visits on the anniversary of his death— He finds a voice

Mowing with the sickle I stop abruptly and remember crawling out the window to smoke on the roof

As a child I saw the meaning in n… I beheld the color code. I would dream of my bed whirling, I would feel my bed spinning. To take a birth here is a hard fal…

Blameless is the working man Who can tell him, ‘put aside your drink!’ And what do I do but lay pavers?

A Sacred Site, to my mind, is the last place you’ll ever stan… Such a place reveals hypocrisy without shaming,

Stay until the walls dissolve, problem solved. No Mustangs on this Mesa just a billion stars, a vendetta forgotten, secured.

To be a ghost is to always be aghast— To not know which direction is the future or the past.

I was down for a minute had to get served out can’t take what’s mine All the money in The World

You can get better, or you can get worse, or you can stay the same. But you can’t change. Nope!

Two onyxes atop another out where… the signal clear, it rang through… so loudly I frightened myself: RESPECT! I remember how often my Grandmoth…