I escaped with tiny, shimmering coins stuffed in my pockets finally running free with you and Mad Desire. I was only one step ahead of Disaster gleefully skipping into midnight madness and twinkling lights in downtown trees. The melodic music vibrating off thin air in the syrupy night shadows. I warned you about the hot … Continue reading
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Sleet
Old man sleet dragging in off the train a weary a ice-laden hobo piercing this morning’s first moments bones bruising swirling frozen drifting fragments the deep breath of cold shooting upon my windows There’s an outbound train coming I just want you to know… Continue reading
The Shadow City
There was a time, a time that came before perpetual darkness descended, before the sun went to starlit mass gathering it’s golden rays for penance. Before the earth shattered. Not many of us live in the only city of Eugna. It rises up in the north in a now deceased land. We exist in this … Continue reading
Fresh Air
Out we go from the stoic, red brick school it’s 1920 doors creaking on brass hinges now yawning open housing scholars for almost a hundred years We breathe high school now freed for thirty minutes more like 27.3 after the packed stairs We head down Avenue Y past the house with the plastic deer and … Continue reading
Wintertide
The snow cascades from Puffy gray clouds Shrouding over The softly spun ice Drifting out ceaselessly These quiet frozen streets Become big and furry Wapping massive snow catching paws Around the four corners of the house Smacking its chops Upon the minutes The deep-set eyes resting On the view of a chilly eve Its muzzle … Continue reading
Chorus Line
When the girls come out In red fishnet stockings A motley drill team Of mismatched legs The curtain call Brings forth their dim-lit days In a room painted black Three high kicks One forced curtsy The stage unfolds Under theater lights Playbill perfection From February frost To searing melted nights Working girls in tights Another … Continue reading
Floozy
You can only be on fleek In your brightly bleached blonde ‘do’ Pearly teeth shining too And the five-star hotel You stay in Has a floating bar Where you slink up to Pretty young dudes And work your love stuff Among the ritzy crowd Your coos falling silent Echoing in the dim space Where shrouded … Continue reading
