Heart to heart best friendson a quiltin a graveyardtaking out their heartshanding them overbeautifully bleeding the flush of expositiondreams secrets fearsbundled in laughter souls of the deadperched on tree brancheslistening to love DATE CHANGE* - Method Writing - Poetry on Demand Please note the DATE CHANGE for my upcoming event with Marshall James Kavanaugh -… Continue reading Poem 142 – Heart to Heart & Date Change
Category: On Writing
Poem 141 – In it & more
In it in the smell of Spring’s breezy exhalation:my anxious youth track meets where I hid under the bleachers and criedclassrooms wet with stifled heat and math I didn’t understandteachers who understood my passion for wordsthe wobbly possibility of a lunch-hour romancethe first time I shaved my legs brown hairs curling down the tub drain… Continue reading Poem 141 – In it & more
Poem 140 – Startling Truths
Startling Truths you can thinkwhat do I do with all this truth?as your hands instinctively openpalms up – like it’s holdable the truth can be startlingan undoing, evenwhen you discover itsstaggering volume you can fall to your kneestear out grass orpinch your thigh &cry-whisper: is this truly so? the truth answers in morning dew’s cheekon sparrow’s… Continue reading Poem 140 – Startling Truths
