Things came to this home to die Built on a shaky-foundation near the 405 Earthquake-prone and landslide-endangered Each summer a construction project A retaining wall, erecting pylon A flat roof posed a threat to the collapsing rainstorm-struck ceiling Each winter came an animal to drink from the pool just to fall and drown Things came […]
apartment near the river
I can’t drive past that old apartment near the river without mourning a past us. The Lincoln leather seats gather my sorrow, replacing memory of prayers begging you to not love me like you did When you lived inside that lithium floor home You loved me differently in December It was cowardly to stay then […]
blame the puppeteer
You’re like every God I’ve prayed to And now I’m hoping you won’t be swayed If there is blame it is on the puppeteer And now I’m asking you won’t disappear Envy doesn’t look much like excellency And now I beg we guard this destiny Even the felony of jealously And where your errors may […]
A Description of Life called the Life of Lady Cavendish
Margaret Cavendish set the world ablaze, provided a description for the new. An empress of society, an English aristocrat. Neither born nor bred, No garden of her own, A posy up, freshly blown at that. Assaulted and pursued, an epistle for heroes. She moved outside the parameters of inquiry to an inland empire. It’s […]
LIFE, and Death, and Giants
Life we wake into, Move about to, then die. So still, so cool. Till a Giant proclaims a color to wheat, Will we see beyond this red heat. Such as these are still. In honor of Emily Dickinson’s birthday.
8-4-7
8-4-7 Or was it 4-7-8 She didn’t remember. Inhale Hold Exhale It didn’t matter. No matter how she did it, It brought her to that place. That place escaped her from unrequited love, A success clock tirelessly ticking, And notions her mind drew up. A wild imagination, That ate her flesh, And threw what was […]
Gin Star Drinking
Today is for you. Wanna go away? I was thinking Bombay, Gin star drinking, they now say Mumbai. London dry, Wear a white tie, Leave me tongue tied. In the blink of an eye, We’re eating Boston cream pies, On the Fourth of July. This isn’t easy to come by, So overbuy Eau de vie, […]
Rockefeller
I put on your sweater and chew on the strings and you call, just like you said you would and I’m happy, I mute the tv, just to hear you clearer and you ask how I am, I could always do better, but I’m rich. In the winter of my life, I found a summer […]
The Gilded Lies of Beauty and Power
Her waves of kindness and fits of rage left her tested like their pageant queens. A pretty yacht docked at the Maramont port, she’s just the tender and wayward age of youth. A pink dress, mascara, and heels, and later downtown in tight leather that cinched the waist. She looked the part but missed all […]
Did he cross the dry Sierras?
Did he cross the dry Sierras to shape a fable Paris? How blue it is, the end of hilltops. The colonists are realtors, with fuel pumps against the sun. With a shade in the eye, no thrones to weight and poems to speak. Darker than Vesuvius, a dearth of Caruso. Yes, there is something […]
