Blue flames
beneath my
windowless body
couldn’t bake
the parts
crucial to the dish.
Ouch
During the time
of translucent roses
I lived in constant fear
of a bouquet
reminding me
that my bricks
were hollow.
Vegas
The buildings
hum and buzz
like that flytrap
on the porch
on the hottest summer night
killing all the flies
while the cicadas sung.
Haunted
So many books
and films
and tales
center around
space
where one
or two
were slaughtered
(maybe)
and the ghosts
that linger
(maybe)
yet when we
cross over
space
where
dozens were killed
the sun in their eyes
is as bright
as a rom-com.
Regret
Running fingers
over coated sheets
of
locked in
moments in time
of a time
when presentiment rushed
through the rivers inside
sending flickers of
future moments in time
dismissed as froth
disguised as truth
under a thick coat
of lamination
the hesitation
of the roots of youth.
Instinct
A papercut
can turn
wolf from pup
Pheromones
can turn
pup from wolf
Pumpkin
Sometimes
when the sun
burns my cheeks
or the leaf-burnt air
fills me up
fires me up
like a jackolantern
I am so happy
to be able
to glow.
Trip
Vacationing
with the one
who already vacated.
An empty shell
flown over the Atlantic
to remain dormant
under thicker clouds.
French doors
panes of glass
separate two
separate trips.
Semi-transparent
Single, female and white
a rose without pigmentation
a whole bouquet of her
leaking translucent pedals
falls on my lap.
When I admire
all the colors that could fill
its lack
copper leaks
a finger
as I shed
another pedal of credence.
Pay phone
Start of daily poem thing:
Yesterday I learned through 23andme that Francesco Petrarca, inventor of the Petrarchan sonnet, is a distant relative of mine. So, I decided to write a dumb sonnet, using his template, about a child attacking a sexual predator.
Pay phone
Voice pierces through moviephone
a boy inside a man inside a boy
who can’t see human from toy
inquiring over corded curls to come all alone
for statutory eye to moan
diamond in a ship, a ruby decoy
plume to be taught to destroy
room full of beer cans surrounds his throne
I accept his offer and enter his home
and when he touches my thigh I smile
foaming at the mouth for a while
before cracking a Natty in half
Instead of man entering child, glass enters dome
a different crime, I think and laugh.