Not really a love poem; I just really like blankets. (2013)

Let’s be honest here,It’s more like crawling back into a warm blanket,Than anything else. It’s not so much that it’s easy,You’re a complicated sort of thing, you are,You’ve got constellations for finger-tips, the breadth of you is vast,You contain multitudes, as conflicted Whitman put it. It’s not so much that it’s comfortable,You’ve got heavy grinding …

Love poems from Millenials. (2013)

If you ever love me,and you write poems–    if you compare me to things I can never be, Bradbury did something with a weathervein,that echoed Shakespeare’s witches,“Something wicked this way comes.” I’ve been far too many failed expectations,and I’d think you’d understand the feeling,what with us all being:fat,lazy,useless,uncaring,selfish,ungrateful,assholes. We’ve been left a shit world here,but …

His Oaken Joints (2013)

As an atheist,If find it mighty funny how often I think of Moses. And I ain’t talkin’ like“Moses supposes his toes are roses”, More like,As this great force of nature,Climbing out of the grain of forests,Rough-hewn from chunks of granite,Leathered over with a hide tanned by labor and vice.Smile lines, deep-dug canyons splintering out from …

Hands (2013)

It’s been years since my hands’ve been this soft,makes the contrast between the skin ‘n the scars easier to read. Don’t have much in the way of knuckle scarrin’,angry as I get, ain’t ever been much of a fighter,not sure where I get ’em,but they coat the outside of my hands,‘n remind me how much …

Dandy(lions) (2013)

The greatest aspiration a tuft of dandelions can crave(Other than the complete and utter destruction of all smog producing industries [and paper companies {and anyone involved in deforestation}])is to be planted conveniently close to a keyboard. Everyone knows dandelions are inherently poetic.Otherwise they wouldn’t be the favorite flower of that six foot tall woman I …

{Conaco presents: Christ being stripped of his garments, and reminds you to follow us on facebook} (2013)

No, no, no, it’s okay man,Times have changed,Now-a-days, you strap that cross to the back of a mini van,‘n the fourteen stations are made up of franchise stops,Plaster over “INRI” with adverts,It ain’t like it was,These days, it’s all paparazzi ‘n tiaras,Those days of thorns and stonings, they’re long over. We’ve gone an removed the …