The Cabbage Mutt
One tender age not many years ago in tendless garden by the soil damned the cabbage mutt took root and learned to grow. I cupped the...
When the Sun Rises
1 When the Sun rises, Dark lights come to life at last. Starved feelings strengthen. 2 Failure is missed chance. Anxiety starts outside....
Thoughts On Monogamy
They say love is cut-and-dried But I beg to disagree. Who’s to say I can’t be in love With the soft orange glow of a neon sign Or the...
Eulogy for the Lesser
There is a kingdom underneath the earth Where winter worms go frolicking about And wait again for spring: the world’s rebirth And hearing...
Memory
Your life is lightning in a bottle When purple seeps onto your skin You may lick yourself there where it abides in mockery and godly...
Ode to Campus Squirrels
O squirrels that haunt this campus fair with eyes so bright and shining, Ye who attend so closely to the pattern of our dining, I can no...
Synaptic Pruning
Dendrites go to the axon. The axon goes down to the axon terminal. Myelin sheaths, white matter, full of fat they speed neurons up;...
Ticonderoga #2
She mustn’t muster a guess to the feelings he so feels. He says “hey” so weakly even a butterfly could push him down. When she looks at...
Phantom Bears
Far to the north (I don’t know where) There is a brittle wood Beneath a sky as grey and dull As flesh without its blood The air is always...
Beautiful Lies
Who are you? Who am I? I want to know you I want to know myself Show me your world My world is black Bright colors dance in...