• Sonnet

Leave me? Fuck it.
It's okay. I have
Love's dirt path
Etched inside my bucket.

And even death
The fat umpire
Drunk with fire
And meadow's breath,

Its gymnastic swizzle,
Heedlessly rutting,
Is finally shutting
His fucking phizzle

For once.
Like you wanted.

 
• Bad Physics Grade

Something blonde
And dangerous
Got into my chest
Like a second heart.

And spun in place
Like a diamond cutting
Catastrophe
On a gallactic scale

With all the deep humming energy
Of elements divorcing.

 

• Umbrellas

Two black umbrellas
Twirling sweetly
Out of a miserable
May sky

And turning nothing
Into black poppies

 

• The Girl Who Laughed Like Unmortared Brickwork

There once was a contestant
Hair like laughing gas

Sadly loved a girl so beautiful
She brought clouds down to the tree tops

Sad, not knowing just up the hill,
In the swirling underbrush of Sutro forest,
She shared her wares and shapely finitude with winos

Unfurled her Cole Valley wings
Into slack coffee scenes; found a kind of meaning
In the arithmetic of poured excess and damp gravel.

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