Deflating night,
lurking in washcloths,
cat’s whiskers -
portents of lonely forays
slow mornings,
tightening connections
creeping through bedspreads
hanged on duvets.
The reaches of bathtubs,
with snips of old ribbons
(glance there for water
and hypnotic reflections)
A puncture forgiven, now
struggle past slats
to blue-tinted glass.
Category Archives: Poems
Her thoughts a-twist;
recursive, remanding…
she sits, grieves, and reaches
for spools, for those thimbles long-rusted.
A point to the cottoned,
she pulls comprehension
through in zig-zag and tacking
that threatens to slip, but…
when the stitches recede,
the frayed tears in her sleeves
creep up toward closed eyes
to gorge on despond
Panicked the expression
confident distress in
finishing your lesson
never look your best in
Onomatopoeia
growl? no! grr? wait! squeak? ahhh!
frustrated your schema
redefine the data
Stop and Pop Ephedrin
and go go go cingulum
Lips-wide-op en-gate-one
bibo gradale malum
Trite Alliteration
Justice Carroll frowns on
somnambulistic fun
far safer with a gun
The Sub-pedestrian bilge-fills
but finished glad, with cold-chills
a peer review’s the best thrill
so flirt and spread the good [...]
Wound about like phone cords,
Calling for a change
“Let’s hang the revolution
that broke the older backs,”
and stifle every thought.
Torn about like plastic bags,
that carried all our coins
They buy their retribution
in masks of vigilance.
“You dare to doubt our goals?”
Bent about like cordons,
secure in their position,
They try malum in se.
“Taboo,” the cry, “such judgments!
(of) hungry violation.”
Spun about like [...]
Indulge me in
my closet of quandry:
hamper dillemna
or quarries of laundry?
Suit pockets loom,
Sportcoat seams greedy,
wide-gaping zippers
like incisors filed down
to daggers.
Their inset tongues slaver-
drip ichor from folds
of silk-linen.
Raving for that cowhide-
lined parcel.