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 […]
Storms Stumblin’ (12/2019)
The sky cries when it needs to. Wonder how long they’ve been falling. Making their way way back up there, just to fall again when it all gets too heavy. Storms stumble out to self […]
Wandering Dreams (12/2019)
The stars in her eyes hit me like constellations falling from the sky. Sat and wondered how it’s already December. That same dream, she showed up to a show. She smiled and I awoke. Smiled […]
Hadta Runta (12/2019)
Wonder how you’re doing. wonder how you are. Apologies for the time I got pulled over in your car. Wonder where it’s headed, wonder what’s in store. Apologies for the time I flew into the […]
Finish Lines (11/2019)
I love your reckless, I dig your smile. I like the way you follow yourself, even if it takes a while. I love your kitchen, I dig your eyes. I like the way you whisper […]
Punchbowl Thoughts (11/2019)
He is in a dead town waiting on a train, like sitting in the desert waiting on the rain. Little storm to stir it all up. He is in a lobby waiting on some joe, […]
Think I Was Dreaming (11/2019)
I saw death and lost my shit. Maybe it’s heaven and I’m afraid to commit. I found love and it disappeared. Maybe it’s out there, but it’s sure as hell not here. I’ve had friends […]
Lessons For This (11/2019)
Why read a book? Someone’s ideas. Somebody made up everything, may as well make up my own. I guess I’ve gotten used to this, I gotta get on the road. Three more days and I’ll […]
Candlelit Moonlight (11/2019)
Stuck inside a dress that doesn’t fit, little too big on the hips. Out back broke a slipper. Smashed it on a sidewalk. On a stoop, in the evening, under a street light thinking cigarettes […]
Monk’s Roast (11/2019)
I was driving, headin’ east. She sat shotgun, sleepin’ right next to me. I was talkin’, whispering, She dreamed as I breathed ‘I’m pretty sure I’m in love.’ New Mexico, dirt road, we were flying. […]
Imitated Tricks (10/2019)
Stumbling down Houdini’s hatch, a poor man says, ‘That’s the last time I’ll do that. I gotta start escaping. 1899, new century’s dancing right there in the distance. Put me in a straitjacket. I gotta […]
Hear It In The Writing (10/2019)
Wherever you are tonight, I hope you’re happy. Hope you’re filled. If you’re not, just come my way. I’ve got so much, I spill. Overflowing with love. Overflowing with things I never could get enough […]
Rooftop Manifesto (10/2019)
Car shows in bed, she paints with diamonds, her blue. He looks to a rooftop he once knew, ‘I’ve already proved I’ll change the manifest for you.’ Said I didn’t get those. Made him all […]
How You’re Doing (10/2019)
Battery’s dead, but they’re dreaming. Talking about pumps and drugs with a best friend, It had been too long since I talked to him. Warranty’s good and I’m gleaming. Lobbies and passing by people, on […]
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