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Category Archives: poetry

Our Angel of Biscuits Most Brilliant

jump up! jump around! i’m feeling stupid & profound all wrappedup in coffee all jazzed on moonlight bright white flowers bursting this night will never end hop hop rabbit! hop hop up! there’s sugar in the coffeecup there’s seaweed in the maze & i’m dazed & crazed (& only slightly fazed) there’s sugar in the […]

Kitsune Mandala

in the corner of orange i wait impatiently for bursting green & fireworks starlight dripping from my catholic shoes & i dream our lady of dandelions blooming like blue eggs dancing lightly on her ragtime bones in the corner of chalk under the temple of the spangled priest i sleep fitfully with your ragamuffin quilt […]

Psalm & Pepper

the owls are sifting us softly tonight & that straw hat you wear is a map of the lost loves that plague your sleep leaving you cold in a closet & oh that cotton rag placed squarely on my shoulders will embalm me in green vinyl at the end of the feast of pumpkins goldleaf […]

Chiaroscuro

head in the clouds head in the sand head in the water hand-in-hand with heart & head watermelon snoozers in my bed in my head my sweater unraveling before the fall all in all since you forgot it’s never too late it’s never too late it’s never too late for the times we spent in […]

Cranberry Soda

i have a craving to go raving through the streets of your ghosttown following you thusly & mostly ’round here & there & thar i have an inkling to go sinking singing & chanting & choochoochooing dancing ’round the cathedral of your sweet sweet self & thisly & thusly my thistlehead whistling i will be […]

As Cruel as Candy

oh sweet waste of time how i want to pop your fizzle as i wizard through the middle of your springdamp leaves leave your garden unguarded & fill me with your wishes your dreams & your dishes all washed & dried with your spoons & knives monkey in the middle the cat & the fiddle […]