Archive for April 2018

and somewhere in the past there is this tiny person waiting

write something new make it up the day began like any other except I had gotten up early to look out the window at the shadows they were all there gathering getting ready for thanksgiving I will make the turkey if you help *** long after you left your words stayed your breathe found a…

they were sisters having dinner with their father my job was to bring the mac and cheese the steak salad the onion ring appetizer dad had pasta young and bored and awkward and waiting for happiness I wish I could bring them that and maybe I did for the sisters

lucky have heat hot water for tea biscotti honey from the farm on the road with the bees

I needed a cigarette alcohol and drugs just to get thru confession I married a couch with a tv remote a gun looking for a bullet drove down dirt roads finding jesus and carl sagan elvis before he went to vegas hitch hiking near memphis now as in today the sun rise that can only…

you were wet covered in fur it was raining the sky laughing crying begging to learn time stuck to my shoe leaves mud on the floor the memory arrives tomorrow who invented the shovel I sit with squirrels and chipmonks bluebirds and butterflies “get a job” the cats are yelling I do not understand and…

grew up mystified by mother earth maybe I am a poetess searching for words think that is what I will be

virtual not really a poem this place where everybody’s gay I am a lesbian yeah I know virtual like a poem kisses my forehead because it’s the mind and the eye and parts of everything else

maybe everything forgotten is written down on paper so we won’t forget

they said they had god they said on hold while we buy a few more television stations