December 17, 2015

The Forest for the Trees

The beginning's lost
until the end pulls you close
enough to smell Spring.

December 2, 2015

Mussel Shell

December day fades

to purple to starless black

above a white field.

September 24, 2015

More Alarms at Night

Repeat, "Baltimore"

Until it loses meaning.

It will still exist.

 

 

August 4, 2015

Fight or Flight

Fly, winged scapulae.
There's far too much danger here.
Fly south. Don't look back.

July 10, 2015

Signs and Symbols

Blood of wife and man.

Referential Mania,

That beautiful weed.

June 17, 2015

Shark

The sun casts morning
stars from breakers to buoys.
Bells. Knives. Black arrows.

May 24, 2015

Nostalgia at the Public Hanging

The Governor paused,

standing on the jailhouse porch,

thought of his grandma.

 

 

May 13, 2015

Spartan Mothers to their Sons

Come back with your shield--
or on it. Then grave quiet
rooms. Empty door. Pride.

April 22, 2015

TV Hill

Dead man anchors, cold
eyelets in Clipper Mill yards,
guy wires part the trees.

April 15, 2015

Napoleon versus the Great Sphinx

Its extremities 

that disappear the quickest -

from wind, sand, bullets.

 

 

April 8, 2015

Living Wall

Traffic sighs, skylines

rise and fall. So quietly,

nature takes over.

March 25, 2015

Pedestal

The Himalayan
cedars know. Female cones rule
the highest branches.

March 19, 2015

Route 404

Vultures coast above
the frozen war of branches.
Frightening quiet spans.

March 11, 2015

Duality

Sunday afternoon

TV, beer, then sharp talons

pulling at the skull.

 

 

March 4, 2015

Vanity

 Gloria’s boasting,

smiling at her tri-folding

get-ready station.

February 25, 2015

What Does the Bartender Say?

 A rabbi, a priest,

Four horses, and your mother

Walk into a bar…

February 18, 2015

Slack tide

A trident, sunless

and sundered. The empty hand

of some drowned sea king.

February 11, 2015

Spring Break, Woo!

Strands of colored beads
draped on a rack. Mojito
barf on roven wugs.

February 4, 2015

Death to Clichés

How should they go out?

Knocked unconscious. Pile-hitch knot. 

Tied to the cold rails.

January 28, 2015

Dimples

A defect in the

zygomaticus major

gets some people laid.

January 21, 2015

Like they used to

Sing, Kenny Rogers,

Sing for Burt and Kirk, tough guys,

for perfect brick rows.

January 14, 2015

Antigua and Barbuda

Sun and sea on V-

flap. Blood red envelope marked

Ancient and Bearded.

January 7, 2015

The Lincoln Special

He slept on the train,

Our American Cousin,

never saw Park Lodge.