Looking back,she was leaping off rainbow road.Natural reaction to something he wrote. Looking back,she had been there on Wednesdays a while.“Natural reaction to something..” she smiled. he can callhe can’t leave a messagewhen he hears […]

All four seasons changed that day. Circle this lake, hum a movie theme.Wonder if she gets what they mean.It’s everything. Coasting these days.Memories brood in painand when that feeling leaves,those thoughts? They go away.Blown away […]

Frozen fountain night night.Tacos these days, not cake.I’m making up storiesthat planes are dancing in the desert. Two tap, trio sings soul.Sheep stands and stares, “they’re there.”I’m making up storiesthat plains will dance in the […]

Ladybug there, stands staring at me.I listen to my chest and I hear things so differently.Sitting in the present, waiting on no idea. Evening bird there, ho-humming at me.I listen around this old town, I […]

Leaves were shakingA soul was screamingHe spilled it all that day Left foot walking on the snare, near a sidewalk,he hears of motorcycles while they’re sweepingIt’s a desert Swore he found armor on the groundTold […]

Shit baby a backfireDang lady a breezeAlways getting what you want, never what you need Whoa brother a blowoutDude monster that’s greedAlways doing what you want, never what we need I saidBe careful who you […]

What about a new heart?One that I cannot outsmartWhat about a new brain?This thing drives us all insane What about a new brain?One that blocks all of the rainWhat about a new heart?This thing doesn’t […]

You lick it. Open, get out, and close your door.Walk to the blue box and drop it in the drawer.The heart wasn’t big enough.You hope they pick the middle one.Looking back, you wish you’d put […]

Backyard dreamer dreams up scenesPurple pastry people preenThey say boy you’ve shown your shineWhat happened to all the wonder? Naive know-how wags its tailPlastic postcard people wailThey say boy you’ve cooked your clockWhy don’t you […]

Keep your coffeeKeep your pillsGive me sleep and bring back thrill Keep my memoryKeep my smileGive me me and I will fly These paths we’ve wandered, tracks we’ve leftRails we ride to hasn’t happened yetBring […]

After breakfast checks the boxes,bends at the belt to see if they’ve been checked out.Twelve block walks like clockwork,dreams of slow motion shooting stars.They said words never got nobody too far.He never had the words […]

Graceland whispers through the redwoodsDrifting, driving by the bayWe’re parked in their living roomone of us has to stay Relax!Roll Tyrone and look at dem dogYou brought us to a bookstoreLaughs in front of the […]

Socks onTies shoe’dMorning war, ready Shorts hikedWorn socksThrew the door, ready Cleaning up aislesOrganizing ancient smilesShuffling dust, recycling rustSaving just and important mustswhile folding some old and brand new Why step on old soles to […]

We sat on a couch together years before we met.Hadn’t experienced the things we’d forget.I bet you don’t remember that day. What if when you get to it,you wander way back west.Pick up ahead of […]

Feel my arms, I’m not squawkingWatch the man kick on the throneNo one near, there’s no talkingBut I don’t think I feel alone The bed and the bookshelfCarpet, paws to the rightInterrogated self for ten […]

I’ll never write a catchy songI sit down and it’s all goneFeel in my limbs lives something wrong If it’s driftingLift me, my soulI’ll shine in anonymity We went waysto look at what we’re made […]

Portland for the holidayLost, crawling back to the cityCracked a good heart in a small townNo cares, oh my, what a pityIn a pan, another breakfast Ice cream and a record store.Ananas limb trembled that […]

I’m stableUnstable?Only constantly trip on my cableSomebody plug me in Cord coiled, burning.Tin tanned, learning.Waiting’s not processingFlip, flick it, just turn me on. A doubt-drought brought socks I bought,got thrown to the snow, now tossed […]

Danced on a seesaw and somehow both got tossed Where is your floor?Where is my ceiling?What leads to that?Anger or healing? Quiet leaves so many questions Breathe inDeep for meSo I can see Look inDeep […]

A lesson, from the baker on the corner, on spaceI was him and you were meSpace meets time eventuallyFuture bright with sunny things Time. Time. Time. Worth it takes time.Put people in timeout to take […]

Hot springPain freeFirst time in this lifeBlood moonAnd youOh what a perfect night Cats and a barbecue, the monks then making music.She’s singin’ how’s it goin’?I’m hummin’ I don’t know.Wright purred out her soul beforea […]

Silent a whileWatchingSo soon I can do anything And I’ve learned how to speak Make me the dumbest guy and we’ll be alright.I will write the lights.Stay up late at night.Watch you make the drive.Mitigate […]

Yesterday I feel I fellToday, I can’t recall too wellCounting, Jimmy, there aloneDodging highways driving home What will happen when you fall?Will you drink it? Burn it all?Standing, sitting, can’t sit down?Take some time for […]

RingRingRingRingRingRingRingRingRingRingRingRing You don’t do a thing. Trying tostretch, progress, be real, and heal.What happened to the plan? That left me hanging, man. BuzzBuzzBuzzBuzzBuzzBuzzBuzzBuzzBuzzBuzzBuzzBuzz You’ll never do enough. That left me hanging, man.

BackwardsIt’s backwardsWe already went that way ForwardYes, forward.What if I go that way? What’s going on? What are you doing?You know that you need this too?Why do that now? Why would you do that?You know […]

Come back, don’t be afraidTomorrow is a brand new day Ups and downs and I reach outpraying for an answer.In the sky and on the ground,she’s my favorite dancer And I shouldn’t put you through […]

Blasting offIt’s eight o’clock and I gotta get this day goingBlasting offGo for a walk down the same street I strolled yesterday Why am I this way? Wrapped around the corner,through the grass and the […]

Sat down and grooved. I moved.Engrained is the first time I saw you.A night that changed my life. Got down, I moved. You grooved.Enshrined is the first time I heard you.A line that changed my […]

I need a nice rug that I don’t care aboutVacuum up this dirtso there’s no more sweeping on saturdays. That only leads to flipping fluttering thoughts. I’ve always seen who is who they seem.I don’t […]

I don’t know why it showed up that day,a creek and a canyon may have altered my way.I don’t know, something changed. Looking back, it really wrecked meTossed my course to lost and aloneAfraid meets […]

Something magic ‘bout walking in the eveningSliding white lights and I can’t hear a thing.I suppose maybe the singing,or maybe that’s just me. Coasting, I pen a letter to me in my mind.A list of […]

I have only a penny, so I’m putting it on the tracks.Departing dead-end sunshine,I’ve heard that way there’s no going back. Train man, I’m leaving my mindto gather smooth stones on the bluffwhile Wisdom, laughing, […]

No flickering,Flipping on fake candles outside these days.It’s cheaper that way.I don’t remember being Classy. You oughta hear the things I tell myself to tell myself.All these unreads that live on that shelf.Where do I […]

Campfire breeze, jackets, a walk.Distant, a heart, like the prey that it stalks. Next to the sea, sundress, a walk.Two calendar years since we last talked. She’s home on the road.She’s an evening’s daydream.I’ve never […]

The circus doesn’t dance these days.The circus hasn’t lost its way,it’s just not the same without you. A tired tightrope tries sleepingwhile clowns close up after sweeping the ground,afternoons pleasing the crowd.One more end of […]

Raindrops, my thoughtsI’ve never known where they come from I was thinking of you when you thought about meWhat happens when I cross your mind? Welcoming warmth when I read ‘truly’A reason for only half […]

Looking for that point of view.Says and sees the same things everydayso he asked you.A mystery’s what happened. He sits outside and writesin a beanie under umbrellas at night.Groundhog Day. Watches air,questioning the saying someday […]

Thirty-plus swirls around the sun,the moon, whatever it is.. heard it’s all one.Whole life looked at by strangers.Somebody knows everything but nobody knows it all.Whisper enigmaFifteen years and ten opinions laterattached are all the stigmas.Engima’d. […]

Where were we?Went for a dive.Where were we?Somewhere, some long drive. Motel key.You lost your mind.Motel key.Somewhere, some long drive. Maybe heading back from the musicto the desert in a new car.Maybe make you lose […]

Hardly on time no matter how hard I try.You gotta understand that.I get held up every morningwhen I wake up. I leave words outthinking they’ll know what I’m talking about. There are places I know […]

Car don’t drive in that pool.Car slow down and be cool.Through the mist are four headlights.I don’t know, it’s Friday night. Why you lookin’ at me?Why do I do this? I freeze.Where do you find […]

Blue hair child of the past lost track of meBrown hair bunny ears looking back at meMoving with the shadowsFrom a candle in the cornerA mystery as eyes roll back from me Black’s constant’s always […]

This distance has become a mountainside.When are we gonna climb? Mandolin sings, a Hammond rings –I take myself to years agoto when I was still runningstill running aroundaround at recess with my friendsand crows were […]

A ride through Guadalupe,two dogs on his tail.He ignores the stop signwith hopes their brakes don’t fail. He’s driven past her city.Whispered to himself,‘I can’t find a ladderand she’s on the top shelf.’ Don’t think […]

In the comfort of a hoodie,a smile through a screen.But my god that was years ago,I don’t know what anything means. Window, looks out at the evening.Black and white, the scene.By now that time was […]

A motel lot near LAX had me questioning reality.A thrown out back, but I’ll call backwith time, if I’m not still busy. See how much has been missed.To not know where we live.We crawled and […]

Thirty-two paws pouring everywhere, flood from holes in the old lot. Walking up while they’re vibing. Catching up on what’s been hiding. Can’t tell what’s under the words. Six years since I left the jungle. […]

The old backyardThey torched the treeSomewhere near love, but not quite free He sent a card‘Cause he is heTen years later near Christmas Eve ‘I gotta blow up the aliens.I’d like to be right by […]

Bag full of candyGarage in the desertIllegal tunesYou almost gave up on you Head full of fuck themConcussion, still the glueContraband thoughtsYou think I’d give up on you? I do it. You do it. We […]

Unwrapping a presentShe stood upAnd spilled, ‘I just can’t take it.I don’t think you will make it.’ Too far out of it to know you’re in it. Unwinding the presentShe looked backAnd cried, ‘what on […]

Got dressed up to sit right here.Man I’ve had three hellish years.Walk around the block againand hope to hear from any friend. With the sun I wake up now.Something’s changing, don’t know how.Think I’m halting […]

I saw when she told mewhat I’ve been telling myself for years.Somehow, I walked inside. I am like Matt Foley,though the basement is myself.Getting up and readyto tear down the top shelf. I saw when […]

No one will love you until you love you.They speak as though it’s truth.That’s not true, they’ll love you – you’ll just never feel it.That’s just how I’m thinking.I’ll never say that I know what […]

A master of misplaced chaostrickling up the streetlike distance chasing closer. A brewer of boastful breakdownstrips across the wireas chapters catch their sentence. Not quite where he wants to be.Tires leave a flat city,seeking somewhere […]

Questions sling to silence,buzzing like rockets at best.Honing in on happy, ignoring all the rest. Reckoning of wonder,humming like sunshine soothes ice.Bringing up the good times when everything was nice. Looking up, are you?Are you […]

I had two rocksI’d talkThey’d listen We’d go for walksWe’d talkAnd listen One taps hi every once in a whileSits on my heart from time to timeThe other has bid it’s final goodbyeWild when rocks […]

Livelihood stripped for a year,alone in the desert.I’ve been through this before.This is how I got here.This time’s gonna be more. I just stay inside.I just walk outside.I just loop the laps.My heart is my […]

It vanishes like magic. Don’t let it run your lives.Teeny tiny tyke toy desk. Impressing my ex-wives. These people hate Christmas. With me or you’re fired.They’ll pay for the helicopter.Nice hospital, I’m wired. I’m making […]

Leaves cartwheel off the trees.We walk and walk and wander through the snow.We talk and talk and ponder what we know.Footprints never looked so deep. We were children.Red hoodie walks in the rain.Not worried about […]

Bet you think you’re a big shotI think that’s what you are not.You are just a small dotin an endless gallant sea. Muster it up.Countdown to make the call,try to piece together a message.Windows rolled, […]

Teenage angst drives streets hoping not to stall.Old soul boys plan out things, rolling bocce balls. Fleabag crowd on hills watchingScent from them wafts to turfI can’t afford to lose this thingIt’s my entire self […]

Gather roundWe’ll break some breadAnd in due time, you’ll all be dead. We’re here nowWe’re gonna stayWe’ll wipe you out, wash you away. Frozen turkeyDirty birdMashed potatoesWhat’s the word? Dark meat all dayCats eat cheeseSpoon, […]

I said her nameA wind chime rangDo you remember talking? I said I’d moveI’d follow youDo you remember talking? The constant swinging of sides of the spectrummost time’s never lined up.We never got to that […]

She slides like lightning through the deep end.She’s raindrops on a shoe,bringing all the walkinga slightly lighter hue. She stays like wisdom on an old page.She’s chapter books of cluesrecognizing greatnessin bolder types of new. […]

Do leaves miss trees a while after they leave?What ever happened between you and me? Do bees miss queens or realize what to be?What ever happened and when will we see? Water tramples water for […]

Figured out our minds.How these old things work inside.Implore them, they’ll tell you we’re crazy.We’ll say they’ve never lied.Not that we’ve ever known of. Walked out of our minds.Left those old things way behind.Explored them, […]

Tiptoes whisper up the stairs.Tail wags, eyes wide, someone cares. Weird days lately lead the way.Mouth drools, shaking, here to stay. Got your back.You sing my song.I chase my tail when you are gone. Black […]

Every night when I’m in bed,a pillow fight inside my head.And I’d awake, but haven’t slept.Fighting demons off instead. Every night, if in my dreams,I make sense of how it all seems.And I awake to […]

Got so mixed up while making changes.Got high, a new job and moved again.Windy City to break the news and celebrate graduationand never got a chance before it broke,I remember my first call, to guitar, […]

HalloweenI was a queenUntil everything got away from meLeft that life behind Dressing room‘God, look at you.Half fit into a dress, too small, too blue.’Left that one behind The smoke will crawl off the balcony.Fake […]

Tell me to writeNot typeSo I don’t lose it Held backspace, I spaced it.Replaced it.Like I didn’t know what I mean.I swear sometimes that’s everything. It’s changed so many times, I don’t know where to […]

She’s more than a warrior,she’s a wizard’s queen.She’s the only one he’s foundwith any idea what he means. Down walking she was beaming.Corners of her smile hit the sky.You could get lost in her evening. […]

Grown from talks, rows of washplaying in the sand.Catching three ancient seasdripping from a hand. Thrown from here, bursts of fearflutter in the night.Hitting four closing doors,never taking flight. Walks with the water to the […]

Music goesWorry showsQuestioning what’s next It could’ve been handled differently.You mocked it and we lost this.Your orange is peeling.Your hair? I don’t have the word. Uncertainty, it’s killing me.This was a dream I dreamt up […]

What happens when the world skids?Why don’t they ever flip their lid?Has this moved on to come back or go on?Did you get that song?Has it been too long? Who’s in charge around here?Why don’t […]

Hey who ordered who?Was it me? Was it you?A table in Texas, I was so confused. Tucson, I left it behind me.Texas? Nowhere near on the way to Flag.Texas? Around five hours til I’m home.It’s […]

I’d skate into a blizzard if it meant slowing down.Drive thru,just a blizzard,cool me off for a while. I’d swim onto a highway if it meant moving time.Shed thoughton the highway,bring me here for a […]

Four feet up a river, seeking out a spring.Gazing at the times that passedand what the future’d bring. Cobain sang, he was driving.Dirt road, beside him, she was trying to make a movie.Rock city rolled […]

Few miles from last known pavementStars, they tap the skyAsk it where the day wentThe sky asks why not why? This city sleeps while he writes about night.Silence breathes, takes in everything it needs.It said […]

Got up Friday, coffee and some blues.Morning found a way to listen to you. Rolled off the sheets, Beatles, toasted bread.A walk through the park, some outside instead. Took time to read about a guy […]

at timestake timeunwind, restart you knowyou knowyou go, it’s art she’s up early every morninggathering thoughts to fuel her daysin the evening he’s writing storiesflipping back to read them in a different waywondering what was […]

Afternoons spent painting days he wishes to see.Covering up madness, he thinks – We’re in what’s in movies.We get by, a whirl of free.Baits us, bites us, starts to sink. We’re in what’s in movies.She […]

Can’t stand to watch the news.Churns me that we’ve grown used to it.Less than fifty days away. Can’t understand what the problem is,common sense becomes uncommon.This whole place is up in flames. She was fighting […]

Why’d Ido that?Now it’severywhere. Wide eyed,saw that.What ifthey don’t care? I could do this forever.I do believe I was right.At times at least.At least we’re all still standing most of the time.I do believe we’re […]

Show whites, they’re the best.Gotta be warmer than the Midwest.Tell me, is it cold yet? It walked on, it crushed me.Doubt that feeling’s coming back again any time soon.Funny how something so far away can […]

Be nice to your brain,memory says you’ll need it. Prep smiles for your heart,serve it up what feeds it. Take the time to figure you out,this thing’s gotta get spinning again eventually.Will you be standing […]

Today I left to lounge a lake,the road read ‘Closed’, I slammed my brakes.A big ol’ breath and turn aroundand sing a song and flip a frown. Drove myself to find some rain,Prepped morning-start plans […]

I’ll feel the sun on my skinI’ll take a run at the skyand I’ll always stop to questionhow I never ask why. Somebody pushed pause and we’re all growing up.Paper in plastic in oceans, unread,believing […]

Uh oh, there that goeshiding in the wind again. Think so? I don’t know,why not try it all again? Something’s gonna work out sometime,I’ve seen it through my own squinted eyes,flying in the skyleaving no […]

You ever push through?You ever get to the other side of you?You kinda wanna turn around because it’s better? You ever push pause?You ever try to find your way becauseyou’re not sure if, when, or […]

Clumsy cloud, you walked right into that lightning.Catching clowns who balk with all the fighting,what good did it ever do? Bitter bugs, he drove right out of that webbing.Under rugs he goes. Checkmate, check your […]

Strangers speaking solemn things,symptoms seeking to be free.They just wanna stay for now. Backwards, buildings stood so tall.Brushed off, broke down, the old sprawl.Easy to mistake that place. Handle and holes.Step up, no bottom.Just can’t […]

I lapped the lake that day,roamed around my head.It’s been a couple years by now,but I just heard what you said. Now I understand.I was a rubber band.Never snapping, stretched too faror flying from your […]

Minced outside, living in an oven.Scalding, never hear a sound,skip back to Good Lovin’. Fried inside, living like a parrot.Balanced, recycling their words.Would you like a carrot? He skips back, thinking there was truth in […]

Crooked, laughing, summer’s sunburnt smile.I’d like to melt with you againevery once in a while. Monastery on a mountain,where someone is selling the beans,ringing bells and playing videos for you and me.A trip out somewhere […]

‘Always have and always will’she wrote, then she rolled down the hill. They never ever say goodbye,just trust the glimmer in their eyes. She got up to get herself.Moved out there to see what else. […]

Feet walk miles til miles are feet.I don’t understand anybody I meet. Flat tires roll when land’s not flat.Backs can break and make comebacks. A statue tripped today but I bet it deserved it.Tragedy, comical […]

The reason I write.Why I don’t sleep at night.Tiptoes slowly in my headwhile I’m getting ready for bed. Empathy, what a devil right now.Keeps me up at night, til I scramble through the day.People pushing […]

Building books, or building blocks.Running shoes and walking socks.I am me, I disagree.Stuck inside, and outside’s free. Written word, there’s no return.Moment’s thought, not meant to burn.Smarter? She. Would you agree?Way out there, and not […]

Maybe time was make believe,I’ve heard things I’ll never see.Can’t say where the wind will blow,don’t think I will ever know. What if now is like back then?I’ve done things, but don’t know when.Can’t tell […]

thirty three years a feather flew winding with the wind and the lively with the music never to be noticed thirty-odd years a mountain moved siding with her sins and surviving with the ocean wondered […]

Goodnight, goodnight. I can see it in your eyes, they’re saying things that you have never said. You hide, you hide. Know you know I love your smile. It’s a highway sign singing almost home. […]

Banana. The yogurt. Some berries. Some good greens. A pebble. A blender, thinkin’ how’d I ever get here? Tomatoes. The garlic. Some some of. Some good love. A pebble. A blender, thinkin’ how’d I ever […]

Searched new chapters, wiped the mist. Flips my page, she gets my jist. Pushing things we thought we’d lift. Chain linked tubes, she caught my drift. I’m so far away these days, what about the […]

Pouring drinks for teenagers twice her age. Popping popcorn, whispers they don’t eat it right. Movie reels project lifetimes some will never see in an empty room, seated, slanted floor she wonders what she’ll be. […]

Time measured by song, distance is nothing but a sign. I remember running under that mountain, after that first one took off. Such resilient lives. I wonder what really happened. No more thinking for now. […]

Tragic that it takes a tragedy to teach us the lessons that we need. The state of the planet lately overwhelms me. Bad actors in an essential ring, on top of everything. Nothing trickles down […]

Slowly release this thing, feel what tension brings. Moving, I wind with shade past lakes someone made. The sun went down and my laughs came up. It’d been a while since I smiled. I’d forgotten […]

Who bought all the Claussens? Who destroyed this shelf? Walking out with frozen shrimp cause there is nothing else. Where’s the macaroni? Where’s the goddamn cheese? Left that place with lemonade, and forgot to get […]

Snowflake, mermaid, stranded in the sand. Corncob, cactus, seeking steady land. Board game, phone call, bringing brighter smiles. Outside, rooftop, man I miss that wild. There’s gotta be hope out there somewhere in this world […]

Bashful bubbles bound to pop, show the world just what they’ve got. Dripping droplets dust the ground, soak the earth with light they found. I took a look at the day. Shiny sunsets shed some […]

To the beach, to the party, to the nest after starting. With our feet, with our feathers, with our storms, to calmer weather. Two birds stroll against sand, pecking through trash and scanning the land. […]

Blue caterpillar called me one calm winter night. Tapped its toes and threw a song through the line. Blue caterpillar lives, sings, it gives everything. Found palms, ground and fingers, flew from a fling. Seems […]

The streets are empty. It’s gorgeous outside right now. Days inside fixing puzzles, watering plants for sun to plow. The beats are empty, silently slide the ride right now. Sit alone by a fireplace, left […]

No one in the streets, they’re singing from their balcony. We’re taking more than we need, leaving no chicken for me. Back to this state too late. Panic, off the beat, we’re reading headlines on […]

I’ve been collecting all of my tears from the last few years, gonna grow something beautiful. Sitting in a storm, the sound of flakes falling crushes the sound of smiles not calling, swear it’s been […]

Every sea I meet. Don’t believe in apologies. Crashing every time she speaks. A wave. Comes to leave again, just checking in to dig the beaches in my head. Seagulls prey on leftovers while we […]

Did a little doodle, drew a purple you. Didn’t stop to fill me in, before I was pulled through. Scratched a tiny scribble, wrote an aqua me. Scratching left a heartfelt word that they will […]

Happy got stronger than sad. Worry’s just praying for bad. We got back to being glad, while it began to spark fires. Honest is leaving no doubt. Lying sees peaceful and shouts, We stood under […]