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  • addict

    end it
    tomorrow control it
    fight scratch claw fight
    kill it
    that deep down
    twisted knife
    step off the ledge
    jump the height
    end it
    tomorrow control it
    fight scratch claw fight
    kill it
    i am it and it is me
    i am it and it is me
    no end
    no end no end no-
    end it
    tomorrow control it …

    July 7, 2010

  • grass is always greener

    all it takes:
    one soft ocean wave
    one swift approaching storm
    one sandy toe
    one face leaned back

    it’s enough,
    those dark brown eyes
    one quick glance
    one wrong word
    one minute alone

    one single
    flutter of the belly
    is enough to…

    July 7, 2010

  • fourth of july at the beach

    below me
    red white blue crowds swell
    crest cheer
    down the boardwalk
    firework finale booms over
    waves crashing
    my toes sandy on a balcony
    the streetlights
    humming hazy
    with humid Patriotism.

    July 5, 2010

  • bitterness at the polls

    It is in every
    Single
    Twitch, lie, conviction,
    Breath.

    You feel it deep in your throat.
    It pulls at your tongue
    And lingers down your esophagus,
    Not easily displaced.

    You can’t help but
    Sip it slowly, roll it ’round your mouth
    Till your
    Taste buds go numb.

    Then,
    (and you won’t notice)
    you’ll be
    slick with drool.

    July 2, 2010

  • going home for dinner

    my father
    has disappeared to wash
    our cars that haven’t been
    scrubbed since the
    last visit.
    my mother in the kitchen
    is looking for the
    big fat cat
    who is no longer around.

    (i’m wishing i was still
    small enough to fit in
    the swings)

    June 30, 2010

  • the girl to dust

    will “they” say
    the calm is what
    killed her?

    was the quiet lack
    what turned the
    blood to sludge
    the brain to mush…

    what turned
    the girl to dust?

    June 30, 2010

  • alone on a Friday night

    only I
    notice wind along the pink
    sunset lining the clouds
    only I
    am audience to silver fish
    dancing to the feel of dusk
    only I
    watch people’s legs walking
    talking, so full of plans
    only I
    realize that silence is
    beautiful in its impossiblity.
    Only I.

    June 29, 2010

  • phish (haiku)

    went to my first Phish show (only about 15 years late). a beautiful night –

    pyre of sound to
    moon witness colors shine that
    green music alive!

    community speaks:
    “second set sparkle! will you
    be here tomorrow?”

    http://phishthoughts.com/2010/06/27/progressive-phish/ for more on the show from someone who actually knows his stuff!

    June 27, 2010

  • Brooklyn Seduction

    Brooklyn
    Began with Stella, and then
    Led on

    Belgian beers,
    Colombian food
    Scattered conversation
    To an off-chance
    “come home with me?”
    Shrugged off

    Brooklyn again
    Seducing
    To a game of secrets,
    To a brownie,
    Smooshed in between fingers
    Licked clean.

    Led
    Alone
    Surprising tree-lined streets,
    Streets busy, dark, still,
    To a stone bench
    In front of strangers-
    They watched intently.

    He turned to me,
    With a question
    But I to a black sedan,
    “To another!”
    To a bottle of Proseco
    Off-speed dancing,
    Gossiping

    My eyes shining
    Like Brooklyn’s reputation,
    The borough asking
    Persistently
    Again, again, Come home with me?

    June 26, 2010

  • songs to remember

    when i hear
    blue eyes crying in the rain
    i hear my father
    say that was his father’s
    favorite song.

    when i hear
    how great thou art
    i hear my father’s tears fall
    at that first funeral
    of my life – his mother’s.

    when in between the silence
    of a long long night
    i hear a heavy sigh, a rustle
    drops of salty tears,
    “knowing we’ll never meet again.”

    June 25, 2010

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