Who am I
to deserve such sights,
to witness this splendor?
Thank you for trusting me
with this color, this light.
Thank you for reminding me
what lives behind the dark.
Whoever, wherever,
whatever you are.
Jun 2, 2018
Jun 2, 2018 at 9:21 PM UTC
Some nights
the Moon is ivory
and the sky ebony
like Liberace's
white piano
and some nights
it's blue
as my worn out
work shirt
the sky black
as dirt
I've dug from
the Earth
or maybe
an empty plate
howled at
by a hungry dog
a woman
in a yellow dress
she lifts
wading in the sea
an empty ship
sailing west
its cargo of diamonds
having scattered
far in the wind
but some night soon
it'll be the nightlight
on the wall
across the room
from my dark
shaded window.
Dec 19, 2017
Dec 19, 2017 at 9:46 AM UTC
Somebody bundled
it into a clock
and slung it up high on a wall,
with numbers
like bars between us,
where there had been nothing before;
before,
my days had come open,
open and endless like sky,
but boxed on the wall
there looked no room for all
of the rest of my lifetime and I.
Jan 17, 2017
Jan 17, 2017 at 5:46 PM UTC
You don't know to which you bow to.
And if you keep bowing,
The World will never get off your back.
Dec 26, 2016
Dec 26, 2016 at 9:20 AM UTC