Violence

Something Angry

Sharp metal scrapes your septum
Blood flows

There
I feel better

A Consequential Claws

Third night of Venus
rivaling the barn’s motion light
across the alley. Unsure
which pulls our cat
from the couch
to the…

Future Perfect Progressive

If only it were so.

Calibrate

I make songs
of wrong notes,
misplaced words,
voice box filled to breaking.

Had I Forgotten…

I thought 
I might have forgotten…
ㅤㅤ ㅤ how a Spring sun
heats the skin
thru the sensation of a cool breeze.
ㅤㅤ ㅤhow a garden…

Yearbook Pictures

A Villanelle with imagery

Dying to Believe

Bad news woke me this morning
on an FM radio show
five children blown up
on their way to school
for the love of God
for the God…

Tongues

I heard my dad spew venom
Like poison frogs
Darting from his mouth.
Her voice was shrilly mocked.