Math Problem

September 30, 2013

While you lie
on steel grates
in the rain

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Transfigured

November 16, 2012

Transfigured Where is the boy inside? Is he scratching at the crust of a cocoon? Every cell is replaced after fifty years Seven times seven times over Each bit of protoplasm is numbered With lost causes under eyes Drawn tight over leering shades Strutting on Dog’s legs In iridescent feathers And showing the soul on […]

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A Walk in Houston

October 26, 2012

A Walk in Houston Wandering down Washington Boulevard With dreams stolen in Norway That are Pasted on the eyelids Of every passing man. There is a fine coat of sadness Dusted on the huddled figures in the fifth ward. And visions get kicked to the curb Rootless, bootless , shirtless and shoeless. The blending wind […]

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October 3, 2012

Transfigured Where is the boy inside? Is he scratching at the crust of a cocoon? Every cell is replaced after fifty years Seven times seven times over Each bit of protoplasm is numbered With lost causes under eyes Drawn tight over leering shades Strutting on Dog’s legs In iridescent feathers And showing the soul on […]

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Transfigured

October 3, 2012

Transfigured Where is the boy inside? Is he scratching at the crust of a cocoon? Every cell is replaced after fifty years Seven times seven times over Each bit of protoplasm is numbered With lost causes under eyes Drawn tight over leering shades Strutting on Dog’s legs In iridescent feathers And showing the soul on […]

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Tales from Ex-husbandland 28

September 20, 2012

Tales from Ex-husband-land XXVIII (Alex and Camille) Alex had a ribcage full of gargoyles laughing in bone prisons stained by the rain heartbroken from the deep shoveled piles of sand that stood like sphinxes Camille left him after he had gone to work. He came home to the thin air . Empty ,empty bottom falling […]

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This is your Life

February 4, 2012

This is your life You awaken to The buzzer-honking questions About south American dictators Algebraic imbalances in the give and receive account Haunting midnight talks red whining About the loneliness Where were you and what were you doing? The host is a hyper guy in a bow tie Offering curtains and doors On other floors […]

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Deo Forgives Himself

December 16, 2011

Deo Forgives Himself (Day has become night and dusk bumps noses with the Dawn) Deo sips his pain In a whiskey glass Burning his windpipe Reclining like Poseidon At ease under wounded light. Deo is separate A closed circle Fixed in his galaxy His still body vibrating Amongst the spinning spheres Deo Battled Mars to […]

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Can’t Have it

October 6, 2011

Can’t Have it   Blessed sacraments disguised as crushed junior mints Lay on the linoleum floor at the holy K-Mart. Everywhere you look is the smell of shit Everywhere you sniff you smell the dark. May as well…. Sit and soak at home Blowing civil breath across the teeth Kissing a coward culture That crawls […]

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Virgil and the Shrink

July 12, 2011

-Virgil and the Shrink Virgil smokes over his eggs Lighting one stick off another. He mumbles in gallons of gall And lines the yellowed walls Of hell that now Swells with his smoke and his embers. “Hey Virg! What level of hell are we on?” asks  the shrink Virgil opens his terrible mouth And pushes […]

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