10.000 blossoms
36 blocks plucked and blown
Into Sierra’s
Cement foundations
Hold up machine gunned peaks
Snowy kimonos [Read more…]
10.000 blossoms
36 blocks plucked and blown
Into Sierra’s
Cement foundations
Hold up machine gunned peaks
Snowy kimonos [Read more…]
Ashes on car windows
Big Sur is burning
Roads closed
evacuation imminent
Trapped
in the apocalyptic
centrifuge of helicopter blades
slashing
fire retardant sun [Read more…]
In Germany
love
decorates windows
with ribbons and branches
Town squares resurrect Spring
with Maypoles:
A fertility rite
older than written words. [Read more…]
I am vanishing with Lake Hodges
Five years of drought and fire
melts water into clouds
grinds dirt into dust
blows tracks from trails [Read more…]
Fatigue
tackles the fittest flowers
Blossoms
turn inward
Petals fold
compress
color
into perfume [Read more…]
Remind me
it’s a larger room
than the beam of light
exposes
Remind me
who is behind the lamp
what interest they gain
when I forget to look [Read more…]
Angry white men
make my pale skin crawl
taking ugly mug shots
under shrouds
inciting walls
burning their black savior’s cross [Read more…]
Goodbye Great Britain
you unchained the bulldog on yourself
never before in the history of Empires
has so much been owed to so few
Goodbye Great Britain
“Bottoms up,” to glories past:
armadas sunk
invasions thwarted [Read more…]
An empty bench
listening waves
meditating trees
contemplating river
An invitation
to pause
streaming video [Read more…]
It’s time to leave
when guns grow on trees
orange blossoms cut down
Kiss the dream good night
alarms set
locked in gated housing [Read more…]
I had to fly to RAF Brüggen
to find an olive branch
for the country of my birth
talking itself to death
I had to travel to Germany
to see runways
outflanked by forest
munitions planted
in fortified bunkers frozen by Cold War
carpet bombed by meadows [Read more…]
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