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I have the flu but took a couple tabs of Nyquill so I may be able to get to sleep. I'm in a good mood because my half-brother, who receives a check...

Fancy's Flight

It was five years ago that, wondering if I really saw The Skull and Crossbones in every valley of the epic black propellor, I boarded and took this...

Something Sacred

After words, where higher lust meets animal calling, when you see the sphinx with his nose, sprouting through ice-shattered concrete, reflected in...

032405

I am still in Baja, Mexico. I went snorkeling con mis padres. On my first trip out, I didn't see a whole lot. But the second time, I went farther out...

Discharged Patient

Pale. A leaf, dried still in the snow. I hug you, half a man now. Shook, lines dug further into your smoky face. You busy the place with packing and...

Le Dejeuner sous L'Herbe

Inspired by painting of same name...

Collages

Metaphysical collage

View Point

What do you see How can I know that we see the same thing What is our truth With our words, dull with the tarnish of use? Where are the razor words

Gum Power

Bubbles of Power

After The Ball

Poem

Folktales

'Tis true, they say, that Magpies know To recognise the seraph glow Of shining souls in midst of all Glistering treasures on which they fall

Strauss

It was on your 30th birthday when watching the Viennese Johann Strauss orchestra that I realised it was over. When you reached for my hand for the...

Fame

Seeking fame

Happy Birthday

To a girl entering her 'teens.

Month's End

Sometimes it comes slowly, a twinge lower left abdomen, then right. Dull pain, then constipation await a run of tears, of liquid coming from...

Neighbour

You can smell his cheap soap In the hallway when he Leaves the building. He is the man next door to me. For two hours before departure To some loud...

Guantanamo

Today I will break you, shake you, take your dignity and forsake your God. Only I have God, the God of the savannah, tearing slaves along a night's...

Envy

(wordlist poem)

Drunken Mother

All night a tantrum in the clouds brewed. In your boozy frenzy, messages flew through the highway. Violent beeps sent me leaping from my warm bed,...

Butter Moon

The car floats along this lonely road. I'm distracted from every task. My eyes follow the low butter moon, dodging through the thickest shroud. Gold-...

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