Monthly Archives: November 2011

Floating sounds
bathed bliss
confidence strumming
cresendo on crescendo
amorous fantasy
forever sounding
spontaneous rhythm
ever changing routine
unending keys of new
no choral cravings
nonlinear you
a speck in the world
to follow to hold
to blow like a daisy seed
hoping
to listen to, to dance to
I want your trance
chance me, write me
trust me, love
you play my mind all day
long            songs still untold
lie in my breasts
the world is [...]

In tenth grade the teacher said
“The paper is due tomorrow
I don’t want to hear about any broken arms
or anything.”
That evening I hurt my shoulder
playing basketball
cry begged my mom
to type what I said
despite her protestations
the absurdity, my hysteria
we needed to go to the doctor
I wouldn’t budge
I was someone who
followed directions
what was wrong with that
gosh darn it?
I [...]

OCCUPY
No one ever thanks the occupiers
we prefer our own sleazy leaders
to paved over explosions
In our need to fix
we disconnect
reality wanes
philosophy guides
nobody wins
Grabbing childhood toys ingrained
Television worship heralded
pedestalled sound bytes
masking as communication
Jumping from planes
backpacks overflow
Campers stake tents
tides reverse
fighting nature an old curse
Hands lose grasp
cities rise
weeds sprayed
grass roots mostly lose
The world once flat
three dimensioned
a mobius strip of [...]