From the 2020 Collection "War Bread"
With certitude was the stove on th… as it always was, warming my feet… next I was on the floor and it flo… and then flashed to a different po… upside down
(1) Under an open window I gaze out until the wonder is gon… Having run out of questions I fal… but perk up when a stray cat appea…
That one more, chasing the dragon, carrot dangling,
The moment you flit by my ear, my strings are severed, I droop like a marionette— I remember I know nothing.
I have this sensation when remembering the poignant noteworthy moments, Lovers, the Dead, crimes—
I wept at the sight of my guru’s picture, Praise God, He is always with me, a Holy thing,
I hear now a raucous party in the… Recognizable party tracks fun and… Laughter, joviality, intoxication… With the advent of unseasonal heat… the moment of festival and mating
A tide of blood, miniature in compare— But an ocean no less, to the virus in there.
Needless of a judge, a contrite heart is a bird suspended on a current, shifting myriad planes without asking or telling.
Mojave Desert crushed cars stacked six, seven, ten tall. From the junkyard juts a billboard:
Hell came through on battered wings, and thought to ask just one last thing. That If I could,
I would lie with my hand on the B… I would lie with my hand on a stac… of Holy Qurans. I would look you dead-in-the-eye, and tell you a lie.
With a sword karma sets straight what’s veered. By her sword does Justice dispense simply
Sometimes the sky is orange, sometimes it takes a purplish hue— mountains for contrast their dimen… and the light pervades twixt our c… and the light washes down mine fac…
Here comes the awakened caste, to save none from their last. Extinction has been decided best, again, Earth will not