there's a firefly in my bedroom
it flew in through the window
with its glowing tail abloom

20 stories up
from the backyard down below
200 feet of modern distance
with its lightning tail aglow

(that it's here at all)
flashing in the humid heat
(that it's here at all)
is a miraculous conceit
(that it's here at all)
a spark that still persists
betwixt his wings
the holy god exists

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once if I was gun metal black
and you were rose petal white
I would walk you threw this borrowed age
And over the dunes of stolen time
Until they had an answer for you

When your smile is
pale
and listing to port
thoughts recede
To prayers that have already
Been answered

everybody
is
somebody's
*****

2 eggs over easy
hash browns white toast orange juice and country ham
pop the yolks
and let them run

theres
not
a
that
could
would
or make
you
past
tense



scratch
the
surface
and
you
still
draw
blood

­

parallel words vertical lies
sugar cane thighs flood plain skies
reprieve magnified

somenightsilightacandle4u
and watch it burn

tracing circles within circles
on a blue eyed afternoon
concentric breaths inhaled
on a current laced with bloom

into August morning tides
where the pull is slack
inside memories’ fading weight
receding half past black

how thoughts flicker in a circular motion!
how breezes cut the vernal flow
hyacinths whistle their devotion
of God’s reflected glow

perfect circles of a hometown summer
born of heat and light and haze
perfect circles in the ether
spherical stay the solstice days