I sever cement
crack crust
and launch magma
into China.
Stride slices air
sending eddies
like hurricanes
into cities.
I flood my wake
with sweat,
and you will know my presence
by the stink of mortality.
Only giants left breathing,
titans, gods and heroes.
As I run past the unlit horizon
I whisper to the slumbering sun,
and bid him kiss you good morning.
Jul 14, 2011
Jul 14, 2011 at 10:48 AM UTC
I think I am
therefore I am
in love. You say
you only think you're in love,
I say, therefore I am.
Jul 14, 2011
Jul 14, 2011 at 10:48 AM UTC
I'd like to pluck you from the speck of a hot Colorado summer,
sprinkle you with ambrosia until you've grown enormous,
then together we could stomp through the cities
laughing, "Let's make that catawampus."
I'd like to tug at one of your shoelaces in the kitchen,
crawl up your arm and then climb into your ear,
shrink you down with a spell's whisper
and together, just disappear.
I'd like to say goodbye to our titanic ways
then goodbye again to the microscopic,
find our regular size in the fall
once all is well.
Jul 14, 2011
Jul 14, 2011 at 10:46 AM UTC
Your legs on top of mine,
sticky, you recline--
eyes wide on a book,
mine droop low
with the wine in our glasses.
The summer heat
hangs in the drone
of a struggling refrigerator
while accompanied by purr
and the cat’s warm fur,
together a symphony
sounding my lullaby.
Jul 14, 2011
Jul 14, 2011 at 10:39 AM UTC
a funny feeling it’s
all just fantasy
can’t shake the facts before you
until the
pockets empty
to sort through the change
you have to
trust that it’s there
which isn’t hard
really
you hear the jingle
observe the bulge
but
you still can’t believe
a million dollars’ worth of
quarters
could fit into those
size double zero
jeans
Jul 14, 2011
Jul 14, 2011 at 10:28 AM UTC
Eyes open too early
taking in only street light
and midnight travelers
through an open window,
so shoulders dig
back into mattress
trying to bury cheeks
into pillow, and pillow into dream.
As I fall softly through feathers
into a dimly lit reality
I am reading perfect word
after perfect word
rolling gently into sentences
stacked into stanzas
traveled by footprints, set
in the slowly falling snow.
At the end of every poem,
I am sitting before a fireplace,
flame dancing on your face
smile hidden by wineglass,
eyes lost in my voice,
hands—mine—
warming every page I turn.
The moonlit snowmen outside
wave as I begin to sweat,
waking finally to early joggers
beating the heat, through my window.
Jul 14, 2011
Jul 14, 2011 at 10:27 AM UTC
Trees grow mirrors
Trees grow roots
for soil and water,
roots for sun and air.
The grass, a reflecting pool,
the pavement, a man made mirror,
the side of a mountain, a shining jewel.
Do branches worry
about the vacuum of space
like roots do magma?
Is it scarier to watch a cloud
hide the sun, or never know
when water will come?
Are the roots jealous?
Locked beneath the earth,
their twin free
to breathe blue sky.
Do they ever worry
the other would let them die?
But if they ever fought, one choking
their brother, who would wither
first, wouldn’t matter—
wind takes care of one,
worms, the other
Jul 14, 2011
Jul 14, 2011 at 10:23 AM UTC
Dance—deep combustion
slows the sway and glow.
Heat—heavy wick heaves
under breathing.
Melt—drip wax
and set the sculpture.
Jun 26, 2011
Jun 26, 2011 at 6:15 PM UTC
I dawn thoughts of you
like a gossamer robe
when you're gone.
Coffee in one hand, boxers
and a stained white T-shirt
underneath. A scraggly beard.
At least I have the robe.
It protects me
as I venture out
for the newspaper
from the sirocco
of absence, worry
and loneliness.
I hug my robe close.
Black clouds hurl
tiny shards of glass
when you're gone.
Paper tears under armpit,
concerned coffee sloshes,
hair blows and grease escapes
even after I'm back inside.
At least I have my robe.
Jun 26, 2011
Jun 26, 2011 at 6:12 PM UTC
Your
Fire Gobi eyes,
ethereal portals
to lucid dreaming
in the deep ocean,
now lakes of light
through which
I can walk,
never needing to fly
Jun 26, 2011
Jun 26, 2011 at 6:12 PM UTC