From the 2020 Collection "War Bread"
There is a stream of what could have been which flows on with the same rate and newness of what is.
Forget shoplifting, not pushing your cart back to the cart-corral is the true crime. Amazing,
I was down for a minute had to get served out can’t take what’s mine All the money in The World
Empty Avenue, Death on the the installment plan, Righteous lady, insolent man, I, patience expired.
Love is endless. Mercy, too. A great debt unpaid, sitting on my doorstep, first-class.
Incense thick with a scent that is true and a bit soiled and dense so dense I lift
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.
I lost my pendant, a dove with a wafer or solar cross… on the back was written 'Sterling’… I searched for hours. I felt silly and embarrassed to
With a sword karma sets straight what’s veered. By her sword does Justice dispense simply
The ravens were about me and I felt as though I moved with the… Full am I, too, of grace and inst… Knowing the wind can tell a secret… being a vastness of numbers,
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
One of God’s tricks is, similar to Michael Jordan, It sinks a three-pointer with 1.2 seconds left on the clock,
Therein are the spoils of sorrow, the fruit of hardship, where wind snaps and prevails. Death whispers a hollow secret and I still shiver
Mojave Desert crushed cars stacked six, seven, ten tall. From the junkyard juts a billboard:
Is closed, always was, like Heaven, far too expensive and unrealistic,