Mercury plunges
Water drops rise into air
Opposites react   [Read more…]

A foreigner
carried the tattered flag
slung roadside
to her house in Europe
where it pledges allegiance
to a mirror in her bedroom

A wish
whirling within each star
for the country
fallen into its own shadow   [Read more…]

Driving
with the check engine light on
because auto repair
is grand theft

Like most of the middle class
I’m being written off
road   [Read more…]

Meditate on ocean
before hitting surf
let the break find you

Calculate the interval
between sets

Keep your stick
pointed toward breakers
when paddling out   [Read more…]

Señor Trump shouldn’t drink Mezcal
Because the gusano
is an arduous laborer
with an appetite for politician’s brains
which explains
the wall his party
hallucinates around Mexico   [Read more…]

Voices
Are dropping down throats

Bands of gold
swallowed by darkness   [Read more…]

Falling in forest
floating upon sun’s gold leafed
treetops whirling home   [Read more…]

Nothing
for water to consume
nor wind to disseminate

No bone to char
nor ash for earth   [Read more…]

A woman
is reading poetry with her hands
stanzas written into cliffs
before human beings walked upright

She combs beaches
retracing emotions
ocean drew out of sand   [Read more…]

There are exits
nobody can open

When calls for help
echo unanswered
break the door
set yourself free
  [Read more…]

Beautified Kerouac
lost his mind
in a cabin beneath the Bixby Bridge

Sleeper waves
wash the grey matter up
onto beaches from Big Sur to Mendocino   [Read more…]