Before I am Famous

literature is something we infer after the story is told

Candlelight Red

Watching the storm roll in
churning desperation
light falters, hydration commences
left with nothing but shadows
with lightning at our backs
even you, a prissy serpent
is pelted with water pebbles.
And this is where our story
parts, I decide to go this way and walk into the
rain fall away from pretensions
through thrashing and lucid lips
I scream into the storm
fuck the world and [...]

Wicked Victory

morning star,
saffron seeps,
fire ants consume,
waiting for prey
to stroll by.
Wicked’s victory.
balls of wax drip,
smiles fade,
quick sand envelopes
loneliness rears on it’s hind legs,
foaming at the mouth,
Victory’s deceit.
yellowed maps fold into flames,
desperation takes a turn
off the pier into the
churning ocean,
Happiness’ catatonic state.
silver moon, teeth baring
forever black,
chasing, laughing, teasing,
to hide only to be found with a sneer.
Truth’s nightmare.
flags snap, [...]

Verbum me Vocat

Verbum me vocat
sliding down the embankment toward
the creek gurgling and rushing over
rocks . Down cast eyes and leaden heart
slip away to the dam.
Pebble worth, feelings intensify to surmounting nothing

Verbum me vocat
turmoil sought and written
pages and pages, happy sunshine and flowers
burned with the garbage in the dog’s days
the only place I have is to turn inward [...]

cold heat

cicadas fill the heat,
searing flesh to the dark,
sandalwood, mountain laurel impose
their scent under the lead sky.
ahead in the valley,
crimson pyramids idle in the
sunshine, eyes open casting
god’s hand to hell.
where there is loss of magnetic
fields, diamonds grow in ashy
existence.
a gift, a promise
betrayal. nothing but green and
black swirl in the hurricane.
solitude and reflection ripple on
the still lake,
carp [...]

When the Lights Go Out

Raindrops march on the road
as the propane is set ablaze in the horizon
hungry growls echo over rain drops
a hope, a wish for the power
to go away, not for a minute but
a couple of hours
to reconnect to the world that is real
not digital and mundane,
to find the dreams hiding in the closet,
scared to come out and [...]

Broken Cacophony

perfect wall, grafitti growing, broken cacophony.
retreat to thumbsucking, wait for alien abduction.
vines encroach on street art, wrapping, twiriling, hiding the past.
Destruction gone awry. peaceable green to faded, detrioating bricks.
macaroni sunsets, dreams riding in comet’s tail.
this is where I find myself, grasping at icy stardust
the world should be better, at least for myself
selfish and needy, aren’t [...]

Garnet Teardrops

Picture used by permission. Thank you NathanKP
Where is the peace on this night,
unfathomable dreams locked with thorns,
shadowy recognizance through decrepit maple,
nuclear power gone awry, batteries drained.
no stars to beheld.
thick, burnt oil inks the sky
punch in, punch out
losing the small part to the big shot
greenbacks and silver
find their way through the cold
never enough
to resurrect freedom
and [...]

Icicles

It began as a snowflake,
gentle, careless, falling.
from the kitten gray sky
more tumbled to the
ground. this little piece
of world decorated in
nature’s lace. when the
snow sun woke the
next morn, distant rays
heated the snowflakes,
melting and changing,
becoming icicles,
small and pointy.
days with sun,
cold nights, the
ice stalagmites
descended, after
many days the
space between
the icicles
grew smaller
and touched.
Melting in
one another,
becoming one.
And forever
so, to continue
to [...]

Elemental

photo provided by The Urban Perspective. Do not use this picture with out permission
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Late afternoon sun folds into a blue prism
willows grace the pond’s edge and the view to the front,
evening sun catches emerald heads of mallards sailing,
mama duck and eight tiny babies meander to a grassy knoll.
Extinguish the sun!
Emblazon the oak!
Introduce the stars!
Invisible bats [...]

Birthday

When does morality appear closer
as birthdays come and go
a special age when extinction enters the horizon
such as the dainty and daunting sun rays
in the east teasing and lapping at the world
below his prey.
Life always seemed never ending
but the sun rises and I saw many
not enough to call it quits
enough to begin to wonder
who will I [...]

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