December 19, 2014

Revival Tent

The Evangelist

coaxes out the devil in

the stained canvas heat.

December 10, 2014

The Giant’s Causeway

Hexagonal stones
Across the Irish channel.
Disappointed bridge.

November 12, 2014

Lunar

A waxing crescent

Garland in the night’s black hair,

Suspended grin bone.

October 28, 2014

Beehive

Dead colonies bring

The moldy smells from the combs,

Beach motels in fall.

September 22, 2014

Pearly

A chain of baby

teeth adorns the leather-necked

Annapolitan.

September 8, 2014

Paradise

We make our heavens

And our hells, hatch vain empires

To rise against us.

May 5, 2014

Grey Matter Fragment

Between shotgun panes--

left ear to right ear--the mind,

half-lit and brilliant.

April 28, 2014

Seaside, NJ: Fall 2012

Like thread through a needle

                                                      W.S. Merwin

The coaster floating,

the flume destroyed, the dipper

dying in the field.