“we bleed the saddest love song”

by | Mar 3, 2024 | Uncategorized

I dreamt I saw you in the poem of us naked as rain running down our cheeks releasing a breath into the world it goes you ran your mouth across my cheek did you ever notice when our hearts stop we bleed the saddest love song I want to wake with the sunrise all the...

“Fragments of where she was”

by | Jan 6, 2024 | Uncategorized

Based on a painting by Mary L. Macomber, Night and Her Daughter Sleep, 1902, oil on canvas night and her daughter sleep above us sketching poems of release in this moment I enter their light without a door to knock or an eye to taste the endless lean of their voice in...

Fearless of death healing is a miracle

by | Jan 6, 2024 | Uncategorized

white pillars of snow and ice I run through them impaled by light into this place where life grows old I live on as a galloping horse unaware and unashamed to lean into the coarseness of the winter air sticky from forgetfulness I chase my life into the fast wind where...

Nancy Bellamy’s Bedroom: a sonnet

by | Dec 9, 2023 | Uncategorized

Based on a photograph by Diane Arbus American, 1923–1971 “Nancy Bellamy’s Bedroom, New York”, 1961 I walk from one fearless room to the next opening my eyes I am lost in love as I watch you step from the window ledge slipping a rotting note into your...

November Rises As It Must

by | Nov 24, 2023 | Uncategorized

alone in the garden like every year November rises as it must over leaves and wind as ice rain pours like a vertical river away from the world of sun and green I look out of the window deceived flowers sway in time their colors change and die once so beautiful now...