I want the sun I want the clouds I want the light sweet breeze blowing through a canyon of tawny hues on jagged cliffs I want the dark dancing just for fun with the sexy ones in a Bywater dive bar at 3 am – even the street is uncertain of its true path? Contradiction…
Away From the Demolished Paradise You Have Gone
Our baby, our furry, sneezing, coughing baby how can you not be here? every time I look at the doorway I expect to see you passing through stopping momentarily to meticulously clean a paw before jumping on the couch to use my legs as your comfiest of beds That one late night, the one that…
Cease Fire
Stars in my eyes have made way for bullets and ill-equipped battalions in the war against the insensitivity of Manhood turning in the circles of my longing and love I have waited for you to come and place blame within my wounded ranks only silence has filled the streets Cease Fire Compassion be my only…
Conjunctio
Wanting to let the stress roll offmy backdrip off my fingertipsbe absorbed by the earthwhere it will be transformedreconfiguredinto growth Wholeness I need to be allowedneed to allow myselfthe unrestricted breathsmoments away from planningfrettingbeing immobolized Flow Reversed What would it feel liketo be withoutthose heavy weightsattached to my anklesmy wristsan iron cuffaround my neck? Constraint…
And I Love How You Wear That Dress
(A Utopian Tale from Belltown) I. Light His name is Rain in the Desert. I am Underneath All. He lived on top of one of the many hills in the city. I lived on the outskirts, trying to make a home. At first all I had was a picture or two; that’s how I first…
Women’s Rooms V2
Women’s Rooms that is a long complicated subject. red room, blue room that room was a sanctuary this room is a prison Each of us have our own room, placed within the vastness of the house. Patterns and behaviors sleepiness, fighting to keep our eyes open, as though we could fall asleep instantaneously of course …
Eyes Closed or Trying
It was always a predawn sky just beginning to give signs of the glow when we climbed out of bed – hauling this, that and the other to the backyard fire pit But the bottles would not burn, so they were stacked in the garage waiting – “Dorothy, you are not in Kansas anymore”, the…
Dentistry or the San Juan Islands as Viewed from Space
I see my uncertainty as a vast mysterious network of intersecting lines, falling away, returning to implant themselves on my memory, without understanding. I take one line and it leads to love, lost or taken, words colliding and falling to ash. Now I sit within the ticking clock, its constant small noise blocking out any…
Shi Shi Beach
He climbs the cliff side clinging toroots and rocks and I tooascend withsolitary faithbeside me, he a few stepsabove, sittingon the ledgewaiting, to build me a mansionof tent sizedproportionsabove us the pinesshine. There is no time beyond this spellas dirt cakes my hands, buriesbeneath my nails,all iswet in this forest of rainclouds drapingeverything blueand green,…
Where did I come from/how did I arrive?
(After Bhanu Kapil) It was along the edge of a shadow or was it that shooting star that traipsed oh so quickly by that left me here marooned on this vibrant green yet inexplicably dark earth As if Bowie were my father my feet reveled in the glimmering glamour of solid ground yet my inner…
The Layers of Love 