Unimportant Verse 5
"Comrade" would I call you, and "brave," and "fierce" and "true". "Lovely" have I called you, and hope but to live up to the example which you set for me. So, comrade, onward, ever onward. I know I cannot hope to offer much but word on cloying...
Unimportant Verse 4
We fit together in the strangest ways and seem to seek new seams to savor. Such joins are hardly perfect, thread tugging fabric unevenly unless it's reinforced over and over again. We seem to seek new seams to savor, and, weak though they are,...
Unimportant Verse 3
When you arrive, the whole world gets slow. Sluggish, amber-colored air mellows lively conversations. Everyone stops, marvels, turns eagerly toward you; and there are no complaints about warming our faces in the sun.
Unimportant Verse 2
Resuscitating ancient coins in class, we learned, takes a toothbrush and olive oil. Slow, steady strokes across, around... soft bristles dislodging soil one speck at a time. But no one that day was nearly as blessed, seeing a coin shine through...
Unimportant Verse 1
I see your past in cross-processed film, in blown-out colors and over-saturation. You told me all about it, told me grand stories: you were going to go back in time and save the world. I see your past in yellows and browns, in umber and...
Every time I fall
Every time I fall, The ground tells me I'm in love. "'Cause love is All low," it says. "And loves is Places." And I always argue, That love is all people. That love is dogs, And cats. And love is Emotions. But every time I fall, ...
Completed Poems from Missives
Though the flow'r may bloom ere long and night recede unto the dawn, so yet may love's embrace grow fond and still be spoilt upon the wan. Brave are you and wield your smile: A cudgel, tool, a keen-edged blade. You are not wan, love is not...
Stripes
Okay, so in celebration of tiger day, a story about people who face a sudden appearance of stripes, all color is drained of their vision except for black and orange. The narrative alternates between a cynical look at the change and an appreciative look...
[Text]Dr. Eams Aur Weerd[/Text]
Dreams Are Weird For. A place, so va s t We. Keep, it. Small it's like, we dont care. About~ this park, or our house. Which ever we prefer. Don't like. White picket fen-ces Or ro-oms, or doors. We separate, and rearrange its...
Covet
Whispering green. Creaking tree. ... Setting orange. Backdrop sky. Greasy black. Pat on the back. ... Overall blue, Smeared oil Mom tuts about the mess While Dad gets a new shirt Clinking silver Bolting blue I lay down thinking what...
You and Them
Coffee shop, cafe music playing, showing ads, buses passing, showing ads. Browsing website showing ads. Rampant consumption and consumerism culture that touts the belief that there is something wrong with you and the only way to fix it is to buy our...
self indulgent mess
**[Muffled static, room tone, scattered breathing, electronic hum. The room is dark and claustrophobic. A green SCREEN glows a soft light across the muzzle of an anthropomorphic FOX with a gray pelt in their mid twenties.]** **FOX: I'm......