july moon bendingslides between sheetsa sonata compressed
Category: Poetry
2021-06-30
half of what isowed is less thanfreedom’s promise:the debt long over-due, the agency’smen at the door& they are hereto stay; get usedto it—we draggedthem here byour own undoing& now it is timeto pay what wehave avoided,squirmed out of,broken promisesof check in the mail& fair […]
2021-06-29
rain again &all night thefrog chorusisn’t surewhether tosing mezzopiano ormezzo forte& settles onfortissimoso I hopethe heronhas a goodbreakfast
2021-06-28
rain delay:green fields blossomcleat marks
2021-06-27
lawns buzz with suburbanites & theircrisscross plots mixedwith soiled sob stories,the world a reality showrun by ink-mad producershell-bent on canned applause& percentage points & meanwhilenext door Kenny admires a beer canfrom the deck of a Cub Cadetfinally enjoying the privilegedlife of a bastard with […]
2021-06-25
crossing missouri in three hours viainterstate 70 fromthe driver’s seatis a blurred ribbonof steel & asphaltslicing betweenmeth & reality
2021-06-24
one monthof postingthese scribbles& notes inthe ether &all I have toshow for itis a few extrastray electrons
2021-06-23
microwave eggsdon’t taste likepowdered eggswhich is goodI guess becausewhy would youwant to eathot powder?
2021-06-22
summer breeze:skin sweats beneathmosquito hover
2021-06-21
go with the clichéfor father’s day:grill, tie, blood test
2021-06-20
the corpseis alwaysthe life ofthe partyat a funeral
2021-06-19
hello again it’s methat head cold youthought had longsince said goodbyenever to make its wayback to this partof the country againbut surprise! here I amat the doorstep of yournasal cavity begging fora place to crash for a fewdays—mind if I crash onthe couch & […]
2021-06-18
the dronedroppedits payloadhigh abovethe Afghandesert, analgorithmcalculating wholives or diesbeneaththe all-seeingeyes ofsatellitesswapping badjokes in binary,a reddit postgone wilddisruptingthe workof ourrobotoverlords:see whatterror setsin motion,a goldbergmachine ofplanes &towers &fear & anger& platoons& isn’t thatthe way it goesuntil someonefinally says enough& funny howit’s neverwho you expect& of courseall […]
2021-06-17
it’s thursdaywhich ofcourse meanswe made itthrough thefirst partof anothershitty weekso only twomore daysto go untilwe get todo it againbut this timewith feeling