February 2013
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Cover To Cover
Losing my sight, walking around at night.
Perice’s the dark, a moment of candle light.
Your heart is a drum, it hears, breaths and sees.
Upside down, hanging from branches of trees.
The air that you breathe won’t stop your heart skip a beat.
The center of paintings that stare.
The rising sun when sleepy eyes start to blink.
Standing like a tree, the trunk is holding...
October 2012
1 post
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Bluejay
Dedicated to my mother Lynn Gardner. Happy Birthday!
Check and unchecking
punching in
punching out
laughing and running
and running out
walking and dying
and dying out
calenders and chapters
ended calenders
of windows passed
checked windows
framed with a couch
for each frame
dusted with words
xxxxx’s & ooooo’s
white paint glosses
over like gallery wings open
then opens,...
September 2012
1 post
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A Poem About Nothing
a poem about nothing
it has no words
stationary, still standing
different lines printed
different spaces
like no other colors
found, covers, a whole
hole punched
sewn and glued, open book
bound, empty, but full
nothing written, write right
like caring about nothing
nothing cares
epilog, indexed, interlude
number picked
put down, picked up
it covers nothing
like it’s lines...
August 2012
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Rambling in blue skies
There in was.
In my way, a large gray machine. Tenanted- to beat acquaint it’s chest.With myself.
To spilling it’s gas and clip it wings. Propellers steeped-right in the middle—
of a dutch painting .
There were to many armies of men gathering around to fix tits.
-dept-ed wings. Her it was.. Large overbearing fans sloth like. Giving window that bright oversight-the shiny fur appeal .
Holy...
July 2012
1 post
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The Gods
Here comes Zeus in his zuit suit
Hercules in all his glory
hot and bothered, looks for Venus
history and poetry
standing at the Mayan temple
watch them sacrifice a child
Egyptians prepare a mummy
watch out the gods are on fire
all chant when the sun shines bright
the gods, the moon, the night
looking at the stars and Mars
watching Aztecs playing ball
voices speak to Persephone
George...
June 2012
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Lullabies and Fire Flies
Lullabies and Fire Flies
Slurred words, muttering, still.
Pursuance. A letter’s cornered ear.
A flattened fear still sticking, with Rabbit skin glue.
Ink blurred; open and black. Pages beat… back.
The Ocean’s skin.
Pages still swelling, roughly, straddling; wet
With tears. True rain hears.
Wet with the feeling of real rain raining;
rung with reels of skinned stories, a lathed...
May 2012
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Seahear
seahear
seized the day too
of rings of lovers
content to imatate
by kissing jokes in the arms of war
love harvests an original word
—a dancing decoy/a toe gate. seahear
I don’t know what I can be
should you write lines
down for me
The more briefly I lie
the faster I flie
Design me in your arms
fold me up like an oragamy tragedy.
Then you will see the real me. Love will...
April 2012
5 posts
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The Timer
A crying wolf is howling, alone and never knowing
whispered words help those who are lost
days laid out and answers piled, lullaby’s for a child
spoken amen is spoken soft wars go on with memories, secret notes inside the binder
blinded eyes that start to see, time moves slowly when you watch the timer time is neatly traveling, emotions are unraveling
shot rings out and then it falls...
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Clowns (Spoken Word)
He’s no Dr. Doolittle
part Gene Simmons
a goofy suit
big red shoes
a drunken buffoon
not Krusty the cartoon
a juggling freeloader
mustard stained puppet
a taffy tongue
rubber bible belt
he over hauls his overalls
lipstick kisses
pulling rubber balloons from his pants
bringing laughter to the romper room
an elixir fixer up
brown bomb maker
a salty fish
one...
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Not So Cute
trapping mice,
what to do,
small, alive
irritating
you want to kill them
harshly,
vigorously stomping
make them squeak no more
so they can’t shit,
and shit,
and shit
in your space
7 tags
Elephant Ears Missing
he smell himself, his shelling skin
molting snake, lashed, drying stems
swollen morning, eyes, crusted gems
rose colored cake, half mooned, stars pinned
rolling pins racing,
the icing, butter churned race
where mercury melts, small signature slips
where blood once flowed, and flies bit
his elephant ears missing
bloated and salted, Wednesday sun
an outpost, a harpoon sky
rebuilds a...
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It's Going To Be Alright
She combs my hair
in loose strokes
as the cats warm themselves
by fire, to touch her skin
turns embers gold.
Dad drinks his coffee, black, cold
long stories still untold
the gray root of his hair
growing, unfold
it’s going to be alright
Sunflowers catapult into the night
settle sun seeds in the yard
the pinwheel subsides, the pottery spins
of my mother’s hands...
March 2012
15 posts
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Long Lines
Open window; shining coffee
a paper curled, opening
newspaper dew outside,
the cost of cutting the tree
a shadow moving; edged, sun wet light
dropping fares, long lines
whole grain, leaving leavening bread;
growing, rising flatten silhouette;
spilling wooden vault
the robin touring,
still outside timing
walked away, redirecting,
spilling sight
Drawing fair, long lines
coal-train,...
8 tags
Just In Cased
Thank you; just in cased
dropping you right outside,
the station placed
black and white; curled rimpled
change the day
crimped composure ride
driven away, Schwinn
blue bike-bombed to fly
dived-tired-out, a fallen direction
rekindled, tide, handed secrets,
and shipped lies
weeping late, hard sliver,
silvered sobered insight
watching patrons,
one graves of the hollering,
resound fans,...
8 tags
The Tree
dark, cold, lost,
I ran to these things
it’s indescribable
to wish you were a bird
and build a five foot nest
inside a dying tree.
I slept in this nest,
safe and warm,
held, quieted, loved
I ran to this tree,
away from my family,
into the dark,
in snow up to five feet.
woods, alone, confined
the only place
I felt love,
caressed by stars,
the cold wind,
protected,
by my...
8 tags
Death Interrupted
The faithful catfish below,
Clear day,
I can’t hear those faithful eyes.
gathered; swollen skies…grasses
shells warm in the sun, wasted the faithful
catfish.
Plant a paper moon (I heard just now)
writing. Plant a paper moon.
A Poet dies. A turn. Path brok-en.
Beneath the tree. Donate dinner.
A no-wear man is weak.
Falling apples. Green and hard.
Hold on to branches, hold on.
Collect,...
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A Beautiful Design
Waiting to be
I drew pictures
as if there were a reason
falling from the star
breathing like a tree
a felted blanket
leaving below
fallen snow
lying late at night
one inch of window
twenty below
insisting on Ontario light
cobbling, holding
covered by snow
I drew more
the air soaking
the snowflakes baking
I drew then
a side without a saddle
awake, fresh like ice
to catch that...
8 tags
Dandy Lion Head
Madness
my missing bones
scratching burning itching
sand flakes
instead of cornflakes
a metal plate instead
a spoon missing
it’s handle
despondent hands
shoulder screwed down
someone Else’s now
masticated architecture
my bones service spoon use
standing upright
silver cupped head
I see my reflection
and am part of the
Rembrandt painting
seen next to his beard
above...
7 tags
Without A Doubt
he and she
lie still
still lie soft
heads sink here
ripe crumble on cotton silted
thin wink disappearing
before hearts bellies
eyes sting cataracts under take
the morning page
a cradle stymied
awake,fingers leaf over
Tuesday’s time
(without a doubt) soft
as water
waterfall
blood parts,water breaks
it’s a beaded corset
a rosary quite set
each bead,a...
7 tags
Yesterday's Moth
A cloth thread
it was yellow; shinning
bright steel blue
cob webs; recyclability
drips design retractable
and Tuesday received
buckets freely
I see a moth
from yesterday poems on
a blank piece of paper
cloth; thoughtfully pinned
inside made
thoughtfully re-read intimately
exhaust/senescent
tube; in my heart
leering down
it’s sinful weakness
My ears are doing-that...
10 tags
Butterfly Stitch (Spoken Word)
Fire has no reason, it’s a morning loop
like a fine old hand held
needed touch, gently holding
a butterfly stitch
can’t help to be rich
space removed, a window cellar, broken room
a remnants and regrets
cherished
the brown bottle, tipped over, tears staining
cloth belts, a rolling vein, tobacco smelling shirts
held together
by my grandmother’s
butterfly stitch
her...
8 tags
It's Caught On Something
But I lost it
it’s inside the mattress,
unseen
it sneaks out,
and spies
under my body weight
it spies
on the way I carry,
my own lies
the dirty sheet,
it makes it’s nest,
ruined
every time, bed re-made
pillows plumped,
fresh like
smooth shaved legs
it regrows hair, soon
like lies rebloom
in dreams
inside the mattress
dreams lie on the unseen
it’s caught on...
8 tags
Hollering In Your Hand
Rolled-over
on whatever-is there
combed (hair) beach
bleached cover to cover
hovering
hollering in your hand
spreading
the shelf you can always reach back
into a rain storm
stand in the shower
breaking-naked
beautiful
a dull point
hollering in your hand
sponging off
heating flames
hemming in
the red pen stops
spreading
hollering in your hand
fire ends
setting
hollering in...
7 tags
The Naked P.O. Box
worms tracked and sunshine timed
a demure quarrel
a bearded shock
a fickle fetish seemed
rudder-ed mural rendered
banded, boarded, docked, aided, unloaded
A barreled cadmium fish
genteelly gagged
kissed unloaded but racked
quiet Petra dish
aided with blankets
painted by facts & fences
a blow fish corralled
the horizon line
that gave way
knifed in facet-ed time
to be an...
9 tags
Blade
to feel like a weed
just to be torn out
belly-up
a curled seed
(that grew)
under tossed, grass blade
(smooth)
And shimmering green.
wet,
a rototiller-ed, cut.
clean wood gathered
a slice of
Railroad tracks:
buried, iron, breath
ties of trees
speech [Bracketed]
passing so/
slowly/
overhead/
by kites, who’s knots
state height and width-un-til
it’s own wooden ribs...
8 tags
Smelling Salts
Lakes unheard, invisible face
know tabs or taped tapes
sheathed/DE-generating
masked, unmarked; irrigating
floating fish, regenerating
relaxed and laxing
renounced, water writing
medicinal, waste; sponging sponges
already pronounced
ingested, relaced, shoe’s taxing
chemicals read, the Dolly Madison-wrapped sticky fingers go, unharmed
jars of jelly, zingering bees, linted
spinning...
5 tags
Know Notes Aloud
Maybe or not
nothing, keyed
but a breath taken
anchored to create
seatbelts denied
smoked grass, poured gas
rear view backseat driven ride
base guitar, black bass
four strings uncooked and cast
re-keyed, the tiger swam at last
by darned maps, medicine token chips
drumsticks feather fields,
wild deer ticks
running lights and a pedal
steel guitar lick
beautiful chess boards fell...
