Pajama Party
My grandmother always said, “Moderation in everything,” and of course she’s right. I should have heeded her advice tonight. I wonder, if my grandpa had heeded her advice more often, would he have needed the Alka-Seltzer less often?
Tag: Off The Cuff
Off the cuff, off the hook, sometimes off the chain. In the right place at the right time with a pen in hand and enough head space to run. Usually a short riff but a rant or recollection could go off sideways. Hang on tight.
Silverbloods
Artist, please
Claw at it
Mr. Entwistle
Happiness is being
the soft-spoken bass player
and the objectified
token male eye-candy
in an otherwise all-girl band.
Loose Leaf
Some loose-leaf poetry from “Declassified,” a ghost’s story. in the still I must refine pull leaves from wind’s stream so to taste them in a curl on the sides little pieces to consider mid-dream in the still I refine in the still the still I must refine the witches dance …
Rainy Day
I have all the times in all the worlds and I always have time for a rainy day…
Poem is Poet
Focus. Work on finishing that poem. It grows. It shrinks. It breathes. Perhaps overthinks. Because that’s what a poem does. It is as I am. It lives its own life. She rights me as I write her but she won’t wait and I find the poem is poet and I …
The Assassin’s Muse
She lives in these false little timesin her false little skinsso to stitch together a soulfor her ghost collecting them.
Vermin
A groundhogtries to dighis way outfrom undermy thunderbut even he’senlightened.