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 […]
Thoughts 76 (4/2020)
Nothing in the mind tonight. I’m tired. This would be art, but it’s me. Feel alone a lot, not free. Recently. Back to it. I’m the one who falls off track. Now you do it? […]
It Could Be Any Day Right Now (4/2020)
Dreams come true, and people die. Fall in love and lose my mind. Town to school, happy birthday, gone. It walked away, and I wrote a song. Pull myself together, trip and break my body. […]
Out of Touch (3/2020)
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 […]
Inside Child (3/2020)
Why brush my teeth before coffee? Why did I gleek on that guy? They’ll never know it was crying, I’ll just tell them that I’m high. Why stay in here when there’s outside? Why did […]
Back at the Day (3/2020)
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 […]
Getting Bored (3/2020)
If I let my mind go for more than a few moments How will I know what I will think of, and if it will return? It could honestly go anywhere. Through a TV to […]
To The Nest (3/2020)
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. […]
So This Is What That Was (3/2020)
What a wild time. Wrong to go outside. Had to stretch my leg. Get out of my head. What a crazy day. Sunshine hid it’s face. Forced to walk around barefoot carpet ground. Coffee beans […]
Cocoon Blues (3/2020)
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 […]
Six Feet (3/2020)
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 […]
State of the Fair (3/2020)
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 […]
In Search of Dull (3/2020)
It’s cold as hell outside and you’re not near. Walk without my jacket. It’s quiet, stuck inside and you’re not here. Singing to myself again. Give me a dull moment. Slow the world for a […]
Bridge Around the Bend (3/2020)
Some weeks I can’t carry myself. So weak, I don’t know how I’ve made it. I don’t believe I’ve burned these bridges. You know that I don’t like heights? I’m not afraid to go back. […]
Incline Soup (3/2020)
Get me a beach. Get me a fire. Nice goodbyes to empty souls and liars. Give me a pen. Give me your heart. Bloodshot eyes hear money made art. Is this really for me? I […]
Sunshine and Silence (3/2020)
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 […]
Digging Moats (3/2020)
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 […]
Take The Time (3/2020)
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 […]
Let’s Talk About the Cubicle (2/2020)
Lying if he said he wouldn’t do anything to keep it back around right now. Plays board games by himself, skips right past all the candy. Finds boredom in bunches of people. Turns up tunes […]
Imagine Forever (2/2020)
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 […]
Thursday by Jesus (2/2020)
Jesus stands in a pot on a shelf above my right shoulder. Backwards head in a robe, couple scrapes but he’s not getting older. He once rode in a van on a road next to […]
Chaptered Book (2/2020)
Third letter of the alphabet, first letter of a name. Never thought too much of school, became the target grade. You see him in the distance yet? You hear him in your calm? You fall […]
Come On, Bird (2/2020)
Little roadrunner walkin’ down the street. Little roadrunner stopped and talked to me. He said, ‘my friend, I’ve had a long day.’ He said, ‘the end? I’m headed that way.’ Bird where you walkin’? Bird […]
Diamonds and Tails (2/2020)
Windshield wiper wagging tail leaves him laughing without fail. Cheeseball chugging childish girl, pilot’s pausing his whole world. Paints with diamonds before bed. Newspaper tail twitches by crooked eyes. A step out the window for […]
Question Spectrum (2/2020)
What if it’s a movie? What if that’s a fact? What if I walk out to the set, and don’t know how to act? What if it’s a ballad? What if it’s a tune? What […]
April Fools (2/2020)
Sunshine, laughs, and all they’d ever wanted. Bare bones mansion, could’ve sworn it was haunted. It’s living. Wrote a radio, dreamt of distance disappearing. Bare bones mansion, mirrored marvelous demons near me. Our living. Stars […]
Sleep Well, Shuffle (2/2020)
I’m blowin’ up God’s cell for help with sleeping well. Writing angels, asking if they’ll cook me dinner tonight. Laughing while devils try to fuck with my friends. I’m shovin’ loads up my nose just […]
Elizabeth Sword (2/2020)
When will we listen? What would you do? Do you think of me when I think of you? Where is this going? Will it work out? A whisper hits me like light through a cloud. […]
Sun’s Palm (2/2020)
Dripping up the well wall, climbing toward the light, the littlest bug you ever did see, putting up a fight. Staring at the surface, smiling at the ground, the deepest gaze it ever did do, […]
Building A Story (1/2020)
If you’re always awake, you’re never gonna wake up. Go to sleep. Get some dreams. Wake up, don’t chase aimlessly. Coffee on the bedside. I can’t seem to sleep right. I’m so calm, I never […]
Check The Mirrors (1/2020)
Lily pads listen to the wind’s drowning whisper, wondering why not slow to a stop? Only observing, won’t say a thing. Miles away, I’m walking down the side streets, past half pipes and tongue tossed […]
Grado Dreams (1/2020)
Morning walk around man made water. Reflecting on words she’d spoken. Glimmering light of a smile. Gotta be ten feet quacking, flapping, floating in time. Feathers weather the weather, hanging, catch dreams together. They ride […]
Sing The Moving (1/2020)
Days dreaming of places you’ll go get you nowhere, you know. We can do anything. Somebody rent this movie reel, pull it from the shelf. Swear sometimes it just starts playing when I am by […]
Two-Putt Hole In One (1/2020)
Purple stops just before it rolls into a house, summer days in winter. She caught fire just that side of the gate then fluttered, more people than last year. ‘These trees, they don’t belong here,’ […]
Seasons Swing (1/2020)
Balcony under me. Live and see, go listening. Out of reach on the beach. Wondering if waves are free. Mountains left craters, didn’t know where to turn. Oceans ran to rivers, only to watch them […]
Conductor in the Caboose (1/2020)
Two leaves danced off a tree to get down, see what’s out there. Tangoing, different speeds, to build crowns, get some fresh air. Two drops left on a train to move on, felt all they’d […]
Prairie Tale (1/2020)
The morning in the attic, where life pours it’s porridge into static, sparking a flame. The shadows in the lightning, where warmth wins in winter when its biting, firing up home. Give a sign, hidden […]
Crooked Attic (1/2020)
Tuesday’s filled organizing the pantry in my mind. Walked to things I’d left behind. Sorted, sort of, thoughts bubbling like soda in a pale paper bag. All of the things that I once had. I’ve […]
Tiptoe Dreams (1/2020)
Gently float around a little ball in space, trying to have an impact. Inspire a little taste. Up there, watching the planets. Down here, right about where I am. I’ve never done some things that […]
Coffee Stained Sunset (1/2020)
She’s the blinds which I turn day and night, altering it all. She’s the kite that I fly wind will bite, but never break this line. I understand it all, I really do. Time’s a […]
Shoes Off, Please (1/2020)
Just a waste of space. This thing has no use. That thing could be anyone, just a couple of shoes. Such a lazy thing. Cannot find it’s groove. Anyone could tie that lace. What happens […]
Wonder Out a Window (1/2020)
Grinning, spinning on a tube. Smile and say ‘what is it with you?’ Gotta bring me with me when I move. Slipping, tripping on the moon. Lean in, laugh, and roll off the roof. Something […]
San Francisco Ceilings (1/2020)
Maybe I’m just rollin’. Maybe I’m just fine. Maybe I’m just gettin’ older, like this shamrock bottle of wine. They said he was crazy. They said he was done. They said he was takin’ his […]
Walking To Sleep (12/2019)
In deep water, clam. Bubbling liquid will be the beginning of us, we thought we had what we’re after. It seeps, calmer, slam. Sizzling bubble bursts on the air it doesn’t trust, we thought we […]
Funny Things Just Happen (12/2019)
I got lost in fix me pills. Pour your artwork over me. I’ll find love in listening hills. Pour your body over me. Live inside. Speak to only you. Loud outside. Hearing only truth. Let […]
Know Telling (12/2019)
I’d like to speak my heart. I’d like to make my art. I’d like to find myself so I could start to start. Needed, arrived, and pushed to the side. Really left my love behind. […]
Wagging Tail (12/2019)
Lifted him when things weren’t right, by his side, slept through the night. She smiled at the break of day, and woke him up to fade away. Walked behind her windshield’s mist, out to her […]
Whistle Humming (12/2019)
Sat on a suitcase, writing, resembling different, winter weather biting. Rode on a snowflake, painting, assembling pigments, summer sunshine fainting. The day, it leaves to find itself, the night’s just looking for answers. Owls spin […]
Raindrop Thoughts (12/2019)
We’re just a bunch of flies. Flies caught in a vessel flyin’ down a highway. Maybe they’ll roll the windows down. Space floods in and we’ll zoom out to wonder where we are, how we […]
Lived Lives (12/2019)
This morning I got up and I lost my head, I drove to the doctor to check on my leg. Discussed if I could leave them all blind, then felt an old feeling that I’d […]
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