And I am remiss to tell you that pain is distal, and from time to time It must flow through our tears and wiggle into our skin, weighing on our bosom.
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A Curse
A stable place…
Read MoreDon't Put Me in One of Your Poems and I Won't Put You in One of My Love Songs.
It was after all, our muses who caused the bruises. Buttoned us up. Now we wear our pretty scarves.
Read MoreSalt & Bone
Lying with The Heart/ Chicken in My shoe
And right now, it feels more real to me than do a lot of things. Unless, this too, is a lie.
Read MoreCircumstantial Evidence of Nothing at all
I See you coming, apparell’d and vaded in stars.
Read MoreCactus and Tree
Today in Time
To enter imagined threads that could have been should have been, might have been:
Read MoreMy Map Draws Me Closer.
I long to take you by the pinky…to walk this landscape…
Read MoreA Time Before Fire (Notes from A Bar)
Bomb blasts.
Read MoreWe Are Men
And we will stop buying pants without
Trying them on before we buy them.
Instead.
If we must
When they do not fit us just right
We will return the mother fuckers
The same way we'd return a goddamn defective chainsaw.
We are men!
You are not god
You are not anything
But you are something.
And to some, you are everything.
And know, sometimes a woman can forget
That our world needs the healing power of men.
Our pride, our sweaty brow, our strength and grace.
So, tell Oprah to go fuck herself.
Or better yet, tell her to come and get some of this!
It's self-serve and we're open twenty-four hours a day!
But not when we are drinking whiskey or smoking cigars.
No!
We're closed then!
When we open
We will mist up and cry!
You heard me.
We will let our tears rain down on earth
Feeding the land of milk and honey our sorrow
And the earth will take our tears
Collect them into streams
And rivers and then we'll damn a canyon
Flooding a desert
Transforming the parched land into a reservoir
And with the water we will grow broccoli to garnish our meat.
So, tee it up for us darlings
And we will finish the job with a single stroke.
We are men!
And we will stop declaring war
On things that do not deserve war: our brothers at arms,
And we will let our women love us.
Make us suffer.
Forever suffering.
Always for them.
Always.
So, work the land, wild in love.
In a swarm of bees. And buckets of milk!
And when it is time to rest.
We will tangle our very hands in the mess we have made,
Tip her head back,
Touch her lips to ours
And remember what it is that makes us men.
All of these poems and more can be found HERE in the anthology “A Cartographer”.
Drink whiskey your woman
Neat
And smoky
Misting in a fog.
Tell her a secret
Michigan
Breaking-up my heart again, Michigan.
Read MoreYour Last Goodbye, Part I
Delighting my every fright.
Read MoreI Am My Own Muse
A ghost, I think.
Read MoreNefarious
Black bra, pantyhose, and Absolut alcohol…
Read MoreBee-in-a-Bonnet
Suddenly, we are holding hands. And I think you are saying something about fate.
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