From the 2020 Collection "War Bread"
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…
This day, there is no ONE to beat your fist… No party, no tyrant, not even a faction—
Brian and I were driving through… which is another name for Indianap… somewhere in South Broad Ripple, a dicey zone and the neighborhoods… we slowed up through a street line…
Praise those who sit and wait for nothing. Who sit still and know they are owed nothing. On the mat each inhalation
Like a Somali pirate just pull up on the Grim Reaper, surprise him
Tears tears do a walk-by unload the clip don’t know why now
I remember the hosts, the factory of structure, each angelic order sized with even number, cascading fractal
Is closed, always was, like Heaven, far too expensive and unrealistic,
Eyes to the ground, cutting through an alley, ruminating about a fight with a si… I notice a stray dog following, when I stop to pet it
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
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,
In Thirty-Four years I can count on two hands how many times I’ve been in my right mind. It is a small percentage.
In your gut is an empire— Spells, tug of war, Holy Days, ascent, decline.
Nirvana is acquittal, wearing sweatpants in an empty cou… drunk, singing songs about the Southland. God has fashioned my heart like a…
Oh, Death! Two beers and I’m on my back! Skipped the shower, skipped the toothbrush. Just a film of sweat,