Tuesday, June 24, 2014
the oddest thing
when did you say you were
coming back? I sat in a chair
for a long time
my white clothes
were turning blue my eyes were
as tired as old women
holding vigil and melting
candles
the oddest thing happened
to me today
I stopped breathing
and your face appeared
Monday, June 23, 2014
chicken bones
Billy Marshall
had a name
right out of the Wild West
and a devil’s grin fat freckles
and messy hair
fat lips and
black eyes bloomed from his
dirty fists
we dug up a
garbage bag filled with bones
small animal bones a chicken
or a cat why bury an animal
in a garbage bag?
Billy Marshall
had nothing
to do with it but it felt like
his kind of menace
it felt like
a bad secret like the PCP and
greasepaint scene from the
Mod Squad
the fear of high
school
falling from the roof
the one who haunts your dreams
doesn’t know you exist
had a name
right out of the Wild West
and a devil’s grin fat freckles
and messy hair
fat lips and
black eyes bloomed from his
dirty fists
we dug up a
garbage bag filled with bones
small animal bones a chicken
or a cat why bury an animal
in a garbage bag?
Billy Marshall
had nothing
to do with it but it felt like
his kind of menace
it felt like
a bad secret like the PCP and
greasepaint scene from the
Mod Squad
the fear of high
school
falling from the roof
the one who haunts your dreams
doesn’t know you exist
Sunday, June 22, 2014
two poems
spider
tiny red spider
you dance on
skinny legs
like Picasso
crawling all over
a piano
like a surgeon
pulling thread
through a suture
gasp
a break in the clouds a gasp
and blue paint falls just like a
sheet of rain
sea creatures raise their claws
over their heads and grasp the
cable that lifts them out
the surest way to nirvana is to
hang to death just ask jesus
just ask these fish
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