Outside:
Day breaks
in the bureaucracy of noise
A cacophony of officials
from institutions
environmentally dispersing
analgesic disturbances [Read more…]
Outside:
Day breaks
in the bureaucracy of noise
A cacophony of officials
from institutions
environmentally dispersing
analgesic disturbances [Read more…]
Non-indigenous
invasive Eucalyptus
Sun blind transplants
seduced by lightening limbs of shade
Arid soil
shallow roots:
Top heavy killers [Read more…]
Lampblack evening –
The naked I
sees stars
reflects dusty halos:
Whirling leaves
severed from night’s
illuminated book of hours [Read more…]
Black Mountain spills
onto streets
muffles daylight’s overheated engine
Rolls head on
into empty filling stations [Read more…]
A pomegranate kiss
breaks open lips
Tongues split
arils
Lick roots into stems [Read more…]
Between storm fronts
Winter rappels down cliffs
tumbling into Pacific
Walks along beach alone
surveys
fish swimming in boulders
a leaf blown into rock
before La Jolla was a gem
and human eyes saw shores [Read more…]
For Christ’s sake!
Opt out of Christmas
Save energy
unplug the lights
plant a tree instead of cutting one down
Wrap yourself up
keep the stockings on your feet [Read more…]
When bullets
fly back into guns
blasts
implode into casings
bombs
ascend into planes
missiles return
to grain silos [Read more…]
What happened to Hitler’s mustache?
Was it smuggled
out of Europe by American spies
inside SS Major Wernher von Braun’s cast
along with the Führer’s V-2 rockets?
Was the toothbrush launched to the moon
with Von Braun’s Nazi war crimes
on Apollo 11? [Read more…]
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