Untitled #58 (2015)

I could have gone to parties,I sta(ye)id home to write poetry to no one.But that’s the a-okay in today,‘cause my stories,my stories are on.                                                            Yeah, for all the all in the all that,                                        spilt milk’s more of a sob than a cry anyhow,                                             and the dead-eye aim my anxieties have,                                                   seems best broken by blatant …

Untitled #575 (2014)

Sitting on my back stairs,highway 74 mounts its Mississippi overpass,watching folks join the highway headed home. I’ve just pushed send on something that could be nothing,and could be everything,and I find myself watching folks headed home.

Untitled #572 (2014)

And Faulkner did like his whiskey,and it ain’t comparison, but I do too.Humid swelt afters.        and more clever roots that seem archaeic now.The warmth and the sweat reminds me of those pleasant afternoons,Eleanor wrapped inside me. Blue-jeans, t-shirts, thrift-shop long-sleeves,don’t have much use for delicates,on me, in me, in anything.             And …