From the 2018 Collection "The Dead Dog Parish"
A Sacred Site has a genealogy, a pedigree of constituents whose good wisdom and charitable insight are markers enough
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.
With a sword karma sets straight what’s veered. By her sword does Justice dispense simply
And there is but One of It So then with no-one to delight The parallax is a radical explosio… of infinite variability with no known meaning or destinati…
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,
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
S, I gotta tell you, this sixty-five cents is worse than a lump of coal. I pray the remover of obstacles
When I see the little holes where the earrings used to be I wonder what they embraced and then renounced to get to now.
The moon lulls me as I wade through poppy fields, dragging limp hands behind me, catching each pod long enough before it snaps upright again
It can get worse, there are hell realms. I’m misquoting someone but, I’ve heard it said:
Sometimes the sky is orange, sometimes it takes a purplish hue— mountains for contrast their dimen… and the light pervades twixt our c… and the light washes down mine fac…
Want nothing from people and receive their myriad blessings… Expect from them and find an empty well. Eat less than a ghost
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…
I know people see him and think, “Gee, that’s crazy.” Which makes it embarrassing to see him
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