From the 2020 Collection "War Bread"
Don’t bother with worry, this isn’t me crying to you all. I am crying to the scribe in the w… who’ll take this story and mount i… upon a medium, a tape, a film,
Blameless is the working man Who can tell him, ‘put aside your drink!’ And what do I do but lay pavers?
The only thing you can prove is how crazy you are. It’s the best defense. Where was I going with this? I don’t know.
III Too late to call vagrancy a fad, an experiment. I am too old and still at it. But it isn’t like I am separate
I feel newly acquainted with this skin, everything is novel, intensity is wherever my eyes land,
Like a Somali pirate just pull up on the Grim Reaper, surprise him
With a sword karma sets straight what’s veered. By her sword does Justice dispense simply
The bar room is a bed of embers fanning themselves expediently, huddling to outlast the dark. A whoosh of autumn air ruffling their complexion each time
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…
I remember the hosts, the factory of structure, each angelic order sized with even number, cascading fractal
She lives no where, has no coordinates, she took me to the gallows, tempted me in the garden and my voice boomed.
Two onyxes atop another out where… the signal clear, it rang through… so loudly I frightened myself: RESPECT! I remember how often my Grandmoth…
I have this sensation when remembering the poignant noteworthy moments, Lovers, the Dead, crimes—
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
There was on my property an old gnarled stump, it was weathered and hardened, It was aesthetically pleasing as d… but I decided to take it to a spec…