Amnesty
I’m sure you’d spare my mistakes,
For I cannot help my heart,
If it’s wrong to want you with me,
Then I’m wrong, right from the start.
Category / Poetry
Midnight Call
At midnight
Away from the disruptive influence of mankind
I turn towards God
Thinking…
If only “He” would call to me
From the blueness of His skies
And smile
Assuring me that
My misery is His ecstasy,
Exfoliation
Not like a garter snake discarding
his soiled patterned jacket of
diamonds and stripes,
multiple times a year,
unzipping his skin to
pull himself through,
One Egg, or Two
First, not even my breakfast egg could stay.
Like anything easily shattered by a clumsy hand
it rolled so slowly it seemed motionless
as it toppled off the edge twisting down
down to the slick tiled floor
There’s a Line
There’s a line
between you
and me
that is fluid.
Why try
to unlock
the shore
from the sea?
The Edge of Remembering
Someone once asked me what it was like
to lose my mind; I kid you not, those were
her exact words. She wasn’t unkind, just
curious.
Recovery
This house is not a secure redoubt.
The walls are breached, and I hear the
Scrambling rhythm of my rebuilt heart.
Silence
So many are attuned to sharps and flats,
timbre, time signatures, and dynamics,
arpeggios, thirds, fifths, and sevenths
Once Upon a Summer
Handsome and flawless, young, and strong
The one who knew my tunes by heart—
The one who always played my song—
Your touch would break my life apart
Tide, Be Kind
Please return this beached log
loaded with gooseneck barnacles,
back to the sea. See
their writhing necks and fern-like