27 November 2021

I think I held it



I think I held it once in my hand for a moment
I think I felt its life
I think I found in it some now lost secret
I think I knew it's self

where is it?


it's there in the grass
in the dirt by the side of the road
there on the shoulder
in the space behind the car

it's here in the gravel
here in the path toward the cliff
here in these seapushed sticks left
in gentle arches on the beach

yes it is


I want it to be what it is not
but it is
only wanting destroys it
only want will ruin
yet it is
I want to destroy it
my want to destroy it

13 November 2021

every street has a name.


there is no place
high on a desert plain.
everything is known.
every street has a name.

05 November 2021

going to a play, even one performed by amatuers


of course there's still a barrier with
them up there and me down here
but their voice and bodies vibrate words
that are not mine not theirs\
but ours

31 October 2021

peek II keep

peek I I keep
seciov gniraeh hearing voices
enohpelet :seert eht ni in the trees: telephone
eh tot peek s”olleh” "hello"s "keep to the
s”!thgir right!"s
dna and
dluoW” "Would
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a esiar raise a
ni dlihc child in
dlrow a a world
erehw where
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“?stsixe exists?"

Nick Cave

blast down the ground round freezer burned burner phone. the underwire bridal shower. the grinderman

say it


say it
don't say it
just say it
don't 

say it just breathe
don't breathe
don't breathe
slowly in and
out like a candle
don't say it don't
breathe

I'm not the mountain, not the salt-eaten road
I'm not the pock marks
I'm not the climb, not the air through my teeth
I'm not the turnout asking why

don't say it
don't breathe

word list

rotten hidden guided frenzy
Asgard verdant crowded fun
mic check murder violent villian
mister madness violet bun

west point millions lis tserve valley
Gandolf villian driveway gun
night time insert bloodlust servant
artist maker mighty done


23 October 2021

Search Terms, Inaccurate Spacing


where was 
warhol's factory rio 
movie length serengeti rapper brandy snaps
swansons deli 
chicago spy kids 
common
sense 
media dim sum  acramento michelin

to me my friend you never can be old

what year did 
cubs win the pennant blizzard of 1999
raw 
flour warning label dennehy 
lyrics windshield 
washer fluid screw change headlight 2011 forester


08 October 2021

reply all


today is a day like tomorrow
so watch your words
pick your scabs
say what you'll say what you'll say

tomorrow is just like today
the steel cover over the hole in the ground
will still clang and echo under footsteps
will still casually announce its acknowledgement of the 
secret world

15 May 2021

Yung hoarse


I am a vulture                  picking flesh from the hole in your chest
I am a deer                       dead on a fire road
I am a wind in the grass blown aside from years
I am a sea                          of waves crashing on headland stone




04 April 2021

space like

like braves do 
 like you have thought that i could 
  like these great gram grey 
   like fires in furnaces 
  like a magical France 
 like a didgeridoo 
like cramped quarters  with
 like years without borders 
  like hoarders in Davis
   like utilitarian mess 
    like other years better 
   like cramps in a sequence
  like braves do
 like trees in a wind
like car parts
 likes feeling the weekend
   like the tribute to queen
     like the yeas boss i see
      like commandeering 
     like the ship that was lost
    like a cinnamon roll
   like a compliment
  like braves do
 like braves do
like

A trip to the doctir

 don't mind the hole in my finger and the pus coming out
the meaning is trite. the point quote useless
i think you'll  be quite offended by the smell regardless
this hole in my finger does not seem to want to heal and, well
the doctor's don't have much to say on it
this hole will just get bigger , they say. and
there's np use trying to hide it. it's a big pus filled finger hole my
doctor said. most people are going to know what it is.
what with its scabbing
and crust
and the recess well.
there not much you can do about it
it will just keep growing 
until everything is it

12 March 2021

New Some



Out of th
               e van in the empty
                                  wooden livingroom of a chapel
                                                                          hill house
sleeping bags strewn
the the only color and up
                                    early after a sleepless night after
a strangers loud snores and a walk around
a strange neighborhood in muffled starlight
we sit on the knee 
                              high radiator flipping through a strangers 
records milk eyed mender and poor aim love songs and we 
sit in the quiet rising listening to joanna and fallable ships and into 
the van soon full of 
      tubes and 
      wires and 
             string
             s and 
             skins 
             singing 
             strange 
             songs to 
             strangers in other 
             states 
             strange 
             songs in book 
             shops and 
      clubs and 
       lofts and 
        bars and we will eat pie for 
 breakfast and we will camp tomorrow
ohmyloveohitwasafunnylittlethingitwasafunnylittlething to be the one to see