I know I’ve got it wrong as soon as the words exit my mouth… what I’m emphasizing, needling you…
Be an ally of the light.
Walking by the footpath towards the class,a picture suddenly snatched my viewon vivid…
I picked a fight with myself and lost.So while I waited, bloody, on a bench…
Who wants to build the great machine,the machine to end all suffering?Ask the poets, ask their nicotine…
You left me a ringwhere your last drinkturned the table tannish-white,and another one…
Our heads bowed,foreheads resting against each other, seeing through to each of our…
Until we are exploding again and again amongst the stars, riding the winds on ancestral plains…
I’ve been living with a King Cobra.If I live here, my stay is free.It’s comfortable…
It is best to enter blindly. It goes against your default settingof intense vetting:you…
Face against the glass, large picturewindow framed in whitewashed wood…
A Poem
When you get so close to someonethat you’re within their field of flame that flickersas they…
We kissed and we cuddled,exploring teen curvesin wild sensual tango, withpretty little…
Ominous never moved its handfrom around my temples beatwith rhythmic pounding as ifI would…
along the fence lineweeds grow tallsupported by diamonds of twisted wire
We met on this path
There are men who see ocean waves as serrated knivesebbing to slit throats. And there are thosewho see potholes…
If love were ice creamwould you serve it before melting?
Sunset, and the nights are coolerhushed moments, geese flying overhead the sky…
We, from all storiespromised to be infinitealthough we knew you and I never…
I wear my scars beneath my skin.Quietly.Unobtrusively.Muscles flexed only when needed.My…
And one dayif you find us sitting on an ivory porch at twilightstaring vapidly into…
My love — no, no, my trust — is behind a wall. That’s my wall, I know.But…
she still wakes up earlyand the light falls nettedon the bedsheets
I’ve seen bluebirds fly with cardinals,wings tip to tip and heaving feathered belliesscrape treetops in Central Park.