I remember being unmoved at more than one funeral at more than one memorial looking about impatiently impervious to the cries of the cry…

I saw him on the side of the road, on the side of the interstate exit… Maybe he was 18, definitely not 21… tired but not yet haggard. The moment I saw him

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.

Incense thick with a scent that is true and a bit soiled and dense so dense I lift

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

(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…

I’ll give you what I got, I can part with it all. I have gifts— A silk tongue,

Forget shoplifting, not pushing your cart back to the cart-corral is the true crime. Amazing,

The Rock made me to see each month as a day. The Rock implored that I be patie… with a patience so radical it slips into renunciation

Hell came through on battered wings, and thought to ask just one last thing. That If I could,

Just leave the fucking flags at ha… Or half-staff. Or whatever it’s called. Just fucking leave them there.

The moment you flit by my ear, my strings are severed, I droop like a marionette— I remember I know nothing.

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

There, upon the loose dirt, I was a stone’s throw from her, Goddess Incarnate. She had snakes for hair, she had green flames for eyes,

Nothing is all I ever wanted, now I’ve got it all! Careful! Lest I become a braggart… From nowhere it’s a hard fall.