Steel-Firm (2013)

You’ve got this steel-firm eye-contactflickin’ across the room to me.Bar-room fade ‘n bass, bass-bass guitar.    spotlight dancin’ in the swirlin’ smoke    blues wailin’ microphone    ‘n the soft-focus jiggle of the lead singer’s braided pony tail,    he’s oozing sex.steel-firm.You’ve got that predator eye,like you’re used to the takin’ of things,the leadin’ the lamb to laughter ‘n …

Dakota (2013)

you belong––with tall streched tales told by flickerin’ light,    an aphrodite child walkin’ graveside,    ancestrial bones clawin’ up to reach you.    history filling your footsteps–        –your mother half discordant,        an unsteady diskiltered perpetual chorus–            dark dredged echos scraping long, long, after.        but sunlight ‘n overtone harmonies muffled–            –the …