hope you
went to church today
and
had yourself
a really good
prayer

before movies
what
did people do

before television
weren’t you lonely

before cars
did you walk

before libraries where
did the homeless sleep

before dinosaurs were
there people made
from mud

before wireless did
you really use a cable

before matches
how
did you light a cigarette
or a candle

today will
only
watch the
hummingbirds
fly
within the mystery
and grace

of the course
and things change
means leaving

always locked
magical embrace
fighting

alone with the water
and clouds

the rocks we found
at the lakeshore

the lighthouse
haunted
with the ghosts

walks the pup
in silence
gets answers
from the wind

such as
i love you
every
other
second

must
keep the house
clean
and
i feel like
shitting
on the floor

as
we move in
silence
a eunuch
licking his
lips
dry
with
a different
sense of justice
pollyanna
on a mission

always waiting
right
on the corner

speak the truth
that
is all we will ever
ask

gone
i thought
that is
what we do

all alone now
like
never before

in the next room

you want me to forget
then
make the trees
disappear

not here much longer
arrives then departs
always on time

a kiss to remember
feeling thoughts instead
hands on your hips

keep your eyes on
the highway lights
the etiquette of the
traffic lost and found
pittsburgh

andy left you know
ended up somewhere east

next to you is where
i will always
belong

the cannon went off
everybody said a prayer
to both god and the
wind

would it even hit a target
of course and eventually

a horror story
everyone wore a mask
unless you were eating

launched by saliva and
forceful breath

out of your ears from
one side to the other
until it made you insane
so they said
you saw it different
as in
a new beginning