You are a black rosestill leaning toward the sunlightyour lack of color so sleek and distant but in your nervous eyes, a sparkguiding me to a pathway filling the sky with silver threadsthe moonlike a video of youdancinglike a recording of your voicesayingHello? Hello?I’m here Kindred Spirit.
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Names Changed to Protect the (not so) Innocent
I am continually revisingaltering details, such as namesbecause I want to talk about life with those who are sitting hereright beside me, or just across the room But I know that disguise won’t workno one will be fooled by my tomfooleryI am a clown it seemshe, that person named Adamwhose name is not Adam, keeps…
Seeking Lilith or I Found God but Couldn’t Keep Her
Listening only for a moment to soundsother than the pull of the tide over the sandy rocksemerging from the fiery waters of the sun like Lilith Why have I been cast down from my proper place?Strolling by they may see nothing or possibly the creative force two separate beings admiring themselves in the mirror stretching…
You Are Much More Than a Memory
You are much more than a memoryYou are something profoundthat I lostYou did not slip awaybut were ripped from meYou will say I was disdainfuland you are rightbut I never meant for you to goI was upset – that’s allI wish I could take away the painI’m so sorry that I hurt youThe two men…
Without Constraint
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…
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…
Celebration of Immunity, Exposure and the Tempering of My Love with Fire
The water is still, the breeze cool within the sun’s warmth watching them traipse by displaying physical and energetic form in a loving embrace of her body so circular, smooth like the petal of the flower picked a thousand times in my daughter’s liquid hands appreciation far beyond desire, her nearness to perfection brushes my…
The Layers of Love 