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.
There in the mast of the sailboat one of the many slumbering next to the spit There by the lowered sail
The moment you flit by my ear, my strings are severed, I droop like a marionette— I remember I know nothing.
The choir of the saints is heartle… They’ve parried happiness a lifeti… seeking the old earth, the marsh of the meek— where earnest suffering is woven w…
I know people see him and think, “Gee, that’s crazy.” Which makes it embarrassing to see him
That one more, chasing the dragon, carrot dangling,
Curling black from crematorium sta… tell me again the hoax of the soul… The cowl paces, pretends to be faceless, swinging silver
Is closed, always was, like Heaven, far too expensive and unrealistic,
Empty Avenue, Death on the the installment plan, Righteous lady, insolent man, I, patience expired.
Yes, it’s a famous song— “Unbroken Chain” by the Grateful Dead, a good band name as an aside,
I have this sensation when remembering the poignant noteworthy moments, Lovers, the Dead, crimes—
Mowing with the sickle I stop abruptly and remember crawling out the window to smoke on the roof
Like a distillation column, as I lighten so does my company, but it’s been the perfect quiet. So why cry violence? You can keep such good company
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…
There is a most worthy woman, the upper steward of the manor, Obermeyer of Holy Terra, house cute, smokestack simmering,
I feel newly acquainted with this skin, everything is novel, intensity is wherever my eyes land,