A MOMENT

I watched you walk 

With your sister

Blond beside brownette

Ponytail in bounce

Hating your sister

At a glimpse

Wondering 

If it is because 

Hating her is simply easier

Than hating you

On The Tide

 We watched the ocean wash

The shore

Ongoing, on flowing

Forever seeming

Rolling, reclaiming what it lost

Deeper than the mind can fathom

Black hole alive with teeth

Mountain waves

Valley troughs

Forests of kelps

Reefs bleeding coral death while

No one cares at all

The stream of grayish black

Riding out, floating in

And many single flowers drifting out

Away from memory

From where she used to be

                                                                    TIMELESS


I held her hand
Under a midnight sun
But I can't recall her name

He was my college roommate
Who I'll never see again

She had the firmest
Sweetest lips
But I forget her face

We danced and
I know the song's every word
I still smell the cigarettes
I still taste the drinks

But for the life of me
I still can't see her eyes

                                                                             CALL



Underneath the TV shows
The Kardashianism
The Foodie flays
The Sitcom rot
The deadly drama
Drifting over the waves
Like Tinkerbell dusting
Unknowing children
The animal screams
The traffic jams and jellies
The rusted parts of work
Kids crying over unspilt diapers
Neighbors lost in mower fumes

Underneath the thunder

A whisper calls

her


I call her name
Against a sullen wind
Freezing in a sunburnt day
Aspirating seawater
Beneath the sand
Aching sore
From doing nothing
Ripped and ripened
Shrunken as horses quarter me
Nickled and dimed to death
Making no sense of non-cents
Folding like a dollar bill
Enfolded in a trifold wallet
Wrapped in the leather
Of her soul
And wondering, wonderous
How she accosted me

U & i

                                                   U & i


How did this begin
With twist and spin and nights
Counted and countless
Pounced
And pounceless
Blemished
Like boyhood cheeks
Fathomless
Like girlhood eyes
Scented with rosewater
Stinking of over-scent
Reaching for dreams
Wrapped in plastic
Achieving things
Wispy as lake mist
In mid-spring dawns
Melting like salted snow
Refreezing in new forms
Unrecognizable
Roused from daydreaming
Blistered by fantasy
Touching a cold pillow
Wedged in a double-bed frame

Gone
Gone
Where have I gone

                                                                   I DON'T BELIEVE


You can't meet my every need
You don't see tomorrow in a glass
You can't call off demons
Or purify the days that pass

You can't read my mind
Or nurture all my love
You can't create perfection
An insect or a dove

I don't believe in you
I fact I never did
I can only believe in us
The us that never hid

I believe we can live forever
We can change our hearts for good
I believe the way you smiled at me
And how you understood

I don't believe in you
In fact I never did
I can only believe in us
I can only believe in us

I will always believe in us