From the 2024 Collection "Sixteen Odes From a Toad's Repose"
From the 2024 Collection "Sixteen Odes From a Toad's Repose" - Sixteen poems written in a five day period after two years hiatus.
If presented with the choice would the dinosaurs have allowed the asteroid or meteor to hit?
I still know what it is to dance, I won’t discount romance, and if I like how it looks, I’ll eat it or wear it
The moment you flit by my ear, my strings are severed, I droop like a marionette— I remember I know nothing.
Love is a svelte dagger, a gentle rapping, a triple-seven. Love is my law, makes me weep,
Here in the suburb of Royalwood e… looks as it did decades ago, entro… where the deep slumber of human li… age and breed with rapidity and se… We sat out here and explored the…
There is a stream of what could have been which flows on with the same rate and newness of what is.
Every once in a while, when my bunkmates are asleep (or at least I hope they are), and the jingle of the keys fades to the end of the hall,
It’s good here decapitate me here this moment perfect astounding unknowing faith in God not necessary
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.
The choir of the saints is heartle… They’ve parried happiness a lifeti… seeking only the old earth, the marsh of the meek— where earnest suffering
Forget shoplifting, not pushing your cart back to the cart-corral is the true crime. Amazing,
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…
The cicada, once with the humility of a barnac… weeping beneath the fern, now screams its inane mantra, which
Trees poke from the earth like the mummified hands of the martyrs. Buried alive, they strained with last breath
“Didn’t I tell you to love everyo… Love everyone. That’s my only business. No small feat, but I have all of eternity.