Another Home
Having flung wide the doors of my soul, once a vault, now a cathedral— no, a monument to Suns— I am opened like a house, like a humble...
His Woman
Unnerving tranquility, the kind where the leaves hold their breath and the wind relents, a hush prevailing, if only for a moment,...
Do it in the darkness
Do it in the darkness. Do it with the wisdom of despair wrapped around you like a rag drenched in dark blood, old losses, pleasures...
In My Silence
For what is sacred and serene, we bow our heads, we pray to God. But what of savagery? What of the dogs who refuse, like I, to give way...
Captivity
Glaringly, I am old. And the canyon does not visit me anymore. As I am a boy of longer isles, stranger tides, in trusting the music for...
Fresh Eyes
Your fresh eyes now are priceless, open springs of bitter knowledge clarified, made sweeter still, made pure and holy. It has been said...
After the Snow
Oh, the wintry conundrum of poise: do I love you or not? do I place the tea kettle on the stove and make love to your body, or leave...
After II
Still I am not possessed of the clarity I yearn for, the glassy harvests of words I wish to be mine; still, I am not the spire of light...
Circumstantial
Blame no one for the circumstances out of their control, which are, in fact, most everything, if not the total World, with all its pomp...
Somewhere in Their Midst
Flush of the Sky, in rain is sought temporal melodies, the Earth surpass redemption in the dawn. Mellow blue of dusk, its emptied...