I’ve sweetened you with Monday’s trepidation pouring out crystal powdery drop drop drops I’ve laced you with Tuesday’s exhaustion slicing up yellow bitter crop crop crops I’ve stirred you with … Continue reading Candied Time
Tag: Poem
Edited Poem: Creeping Silver
creeping silver traces names onto gabbro walls preserving our present presence before the black gash as miraculously precious LEO BERT ABRAMOSKI ROBERT JOHN ACHAS JESSE RODRIQUEZ ACOSTA RAYMOND ALVIN ADAM … Continue reading Edited Poem: Creeping Silver
Editing A Life
Five years or more packed
into cardboard boxes,
shipped across three
states inside an aluminum
truck, carried by friends
into a one bedroom home.
And as I unpack
those years
I let more
& more
go.
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Driving Through A Murder
Head lights illuminate the pot marked street. Laurels arch their branches over the road, casting shadows hands cross my field of vision. A murmuration chased by a murder is revealed … Continue reading Driving Through A Murder
Why Does Blood Taste Like A Penny?
rolling currency between cheeks copper acidic sweet metal fruit flesh one bite for one penny
Cars in the Mist
Rumbling four ton machines pound rain into clouds underneath rubber tires. They ride paths paved by the giants that came before. Migration patterns follow the tide of bulls and bears. … Continue reading Cars in the Mist
Easter Sunday Haiku
Easter Sunday skies
through pale blue grey clouds light pours
on a lonely beach.
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Astronomical Spring
the axis of Earth
increases its tilt
and the length of daylight grows
snow capped mountains
drip down hills
and into streams they flow
astronomers mark
this changing pattern
as the temperature goes
above freezing
with children sneezing
and now everyone knows
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A Command
Chase the tail
of Newport smoke
through tangled
purple haze.
Watch it curl
through humid air.
Witness as the tail gives
way to claws
carving crevices
into our mattresses
bed sheets
pillows.
Follow the residual
black lines
like a scaled
underbelly.
Trace the ashes
back to where
the Dragon’s eye
pulsates crimson
with each
unstable
breathe.
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Sonnet to The Lunar New Year
May the 2016 calendar show
astronomical phenomena days,
where spring solstice and winter new years grow,
and dark moons set the beginning ablaze.
Lichun signifies the beginning of spring
over 7000 miles from me.
Frost clings, gutters sing, and birds take wing;
sweet promises of warmth brought by the sea.
The year of the monkey has just begun.
The age of humanity was announced.
Our link to earthbound time is undone.
We’ve left traces of us in every ounce.
Yet, let us hold on to traditions past
when we looked to the stars to help us last.
The Literary Dragon 