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Category Archives: poetry

Frozen

this space a timebomb popsicle a toychest incognito & frozen glass a corridor for you to fall for you to stumble ball & chain ball & chain a million years of rain this town a tiny dancing sea a buzzing humbug bundle of joy a little lost & lovely for you to fall for you […]

If You Were the Pope

if i were the king of your pumpkinheaded land i’d cross the burning deserts just to kiss your velvet hand i’d paint my hair the color of your eyes & tell you stupid things & do my best to impress you if i were the king & we all find ourselves on the express bus […]

All She Wrote

with a sense of garlic & a little something-something i am the well-heeled monarch of tin montage –ready? okay! watch this spot for future monologues as i dance like an elephant in my pajamas all shotgun sapphires & cobalt crooning damned to the cough of dungeons do you see what i mean when i speak […]

Sailing on Silver Seas

all my world is apple red dripping amber bleeding peach painted by a brush of flame candlelit delirious lightning flash! thunder crash! ocean waves wash over me! illuminate the darkness in lemon & tangerine frosted fast imperious this drama never ends between the roses & the rushes the fire & the smoke a spangled grail […]

Tango

when you wear your heart on your sleeve people will punch you in the arm & yet excuse me for a moment i have a bloody nose & a thumping pulse making sambas & lindy hops in the public square in the marketplace in the opera house because i’m just one beat away from giving […]

Hanabi

fill my mouth with glue & shut my jaws because i can’t go on like this i can’t i can’t i can’t it’s so absurd i’m so unhinged with my jetpack full of nitrous & my cardigan on fire billowing out like a bursting rose i just can’t stop i can’t i can’t i can’t […]