Poems
MY Boss “You’re FIRED”
Tuesday, October 27th, 2009Your Late
Yes I was ill
But You’re late
I know
I was Depressed
You’re FIRED sign here
Thank you
I am feeling better already.
Sweaty Axial Greased Men
Wednesday, October 21st, 2009
Mom needed help raising 10 children
You took us on jobs where
Men brought water up from the earth
They laughed and cussed at
Each other in the Texas heat
Lumbering tools bent deep
Sweaty axial grease men
Who shaped pipe, rope,
Wrenches and steel
Into surgeon’s wands
Coaxing the nectar upward
Men who long new
The value of Aqua Dulce
Before it was bottled [...]
Boy’s find things in the dirt.
Saturday, October 3rd, 2009
Summertime, playing marbles with your little brother
Lagging crystals, bowlees, and cat’s-eye’s in the dirt
Hearing the barking of your saxophone
To the beat of square, circle, triangle, and star shaped notes
Vibrating through your window screen
Raked through each tinny opening freely
Squawking bluesy rhythms escaped
Unlike your image hidden in your dark underworld.
Us outside free in the sunlight with your music
Never saw your [...]
The Rakuist Lunch
Thursday, October 1st, 2009
Exhaling into the Earth
Centering her skin
Initiating a opening
Spirit penetrates her fertile core.
Life pulls in all directions
Generating a globular shape
Death beckons the fruit to its funeral pyre.
Smoke, steam, and fumes billow
Dancing oxygen starved onlookers
Timing their alchemic attack.
Clawing into hot coals and ash
Revealing matured sustenance
Results of the sacred dance.
Fiery hot petals pealed [...]
UTURN
Tuesday, September 15th, 2009
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