I threw the cross into water
to drown the acolyte nailed into wood
by priests of an encrusted religion
so I might live
The relic
raised from shrouded seabed
by hands of swimmers
was a burden lifted from my shoulders
An epiphany of vision
poetry read
in every face
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The arctic air
condensed spoken words
into fog
The sedentary froze
in chairs
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The table is set
An imaginary feast prepared
Bottles
emptied into glasses
until gardens go to heads
It’s midnight
when dreamers are lashed from sleep
alone [Read more…]
Snowmen
scratch through windows
with stick fingers
pluck ornaments from eyes
Break into houses
with broken promises
shovel coal down throats
they can’t swallow
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I was here
before anyone called me San Diego
Before Cabrillo
named me San Miguel
and declared me a Spanish possession
Before the Kumeyaay and Yuman
found sustenance
along my mountains and shores [Read more…]
December
and the desert rattles trees
blows open doors
shut
Bends the knees of flags
toward foaming ocean
Fans palms
into flame [Read more…]
Black Friday crow parks
on top a new SUV
Sliding glass doors slide
A 3000 dollar suit
squawks outside
. flaps sleeves at air [Read more…]
I don’t remember
the happy couple
pressed together
between two pages of Midwestern prairie
Never heard the words
love wrote inside high school dance cards [Read more…]
Natural selection
has sealed its indictment
under sheets of melting ice
Rats
quibble over spoiled venison
in headlights [Read more…]
Before object permanence
awakened memory
the cardboard box
gathered dust in a cupboard
inside our family home
Blunt scissors
were the only tool required
to cut through through
layers of masking tape
and unify parallel universes [Read more…]
Before
we throw
the white elephant
out of our white house
we should ask ourselves
why we’ve listened to white trash
for so long?
Did we use the white noise
to whiteout
black eyes? [Read more…]
The emperor
golfs
while Puerto Rico drowns
Behind democracy’s locked door
senators write off tyranny with silence
in order to inflate the pockets
of power brokers
by breaking the working poor [Read more…]
