My mind is blank
yet reeling
like a skipping record
I choke
and turn in place

Hung by their ankles
Coins drip on the floor - pennies
Red as the blood drained

It’s the static
In the airwaves
A frequency suspended
In purgatory

Between smooth jazz
And traffic reports

It tingles on the tips of my fingers
As they grip the steering wheel

I turn the dial
And land on that chaotic hymn

both relentless yet irresolute
like the cars in rush hour’s panicked standstill

I revel in the cacophony
For I am the static
In the airwaves
A frequency suspended
In purgatory

Fraught
Writhing
Speaking in tongues
Words I’ve never known
        “I love you”

I sink my teeth
Into cotton candy clouds
Lick the sweet crystals of sunset
Off my fingertips

Lips dusted with light
I savor this day

I look down at the buildings below
Twinkling with celestial grace
And map the constellations
Of journeys to be

With eyes the embers
Of wildfires
She approaches
Igniting the night
With raw curiosity

Memories
Blank like an unwritten checkbook
Try to recall
Days unspent

See the world through Van Gogh
Soften your focus and
look out your window

You were my North Star -
With your light now gone
How will I find my way home?

Orchids plie in fifth position following the cadence of spring

Though I know I’m just
Pleading with my palms -
I say a prayer anyway

Drunken clouds stumble
Across the sky ******* on
Hope of sun in spring

Seems as though I'm always falling
short,
back,
or behind

I held two flags
Both  red white and blue
You said I could only choose one

Like rice and beans
On U.S soil - mis idiomas
Se mezclan

I scaled the wall of
Your maze - to hell with your cheese
I will churn my own

I don't know if it's
you or the Heineken but
My heart's on fire

Caught from that rich jade
Sea, you slice me thin, bearing
My raw abundance

This stupid, *******
good-for-nothing pen is
always running out of --

Your honeysuckle cheeks
Leave the saccharine taste
Of spring on my lips

Unleash my demons -
Animalistic fiends who
Prey on purity

From the undone dishes
rotting in the sink
a maggot crawls
to me and says
“Get  your life together”

My chiropractor
And therapist agree -
I’m out of alignment

there are countless stories
tucked in the creases of your skin -
read to me

The warmth of fresh clothes
from the dryer hugs me
like you used to, Mama

Hurry up and kiss me -
Our love’s fleeting like snow
On the street we met

Love culminates with
Delicacy between our
Shaking fingertips

I long for that sweet,
Ephemeral moment of ecstasy:
Your kiss

My pen sputters and stalls -
Check engine light flashing
Behind my eyelids

My chest and spirits
Rise in tandem as I breathe
The essence of you