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May 2012

The Basket of Seven I welcomed April with a bottle of Midori splice and a half-bit apple.Feeling frustrated, bored and drunk, I stole the apple from next door.Apples are for the greedy foolish.God forbade us.There are t… Discussion The Basket of Seven 1 Like Cascade Long black hair. She turns Streams of shade, a jet cascade mirrors leaves above Strolling, taking in …ev’rything.. the trees, the grass sudden flock of doves Fountain sprays like shards of glass sl… Discussion Cascade 2 Likes

February 2012

The Bishop & the Actress There’s no need to be scared, she said: I’ve slept paralytic in attics under sloughed skins of dust With other people’s condoms stuck to me Crawling down to suck warm wine from every vessel Like veno… Discussion The Bishop & the Actress 2 Likes Poem - Anxiety Anxiety snakes into my life like the long fangs of a religious discourse that slowly poisons whole continents, whole histories. Impatience taps at my shoulder like the rain on someone else’s tin ro… Discussion Poem - Anxiety 4 Likes The Whistler Rummaging through inner city trash bins Teasing melody from orchestral dins Of sorrow and of loneliness he sings, Of poverty, of his only true sin His plumage ruffled and the vivid crest, Replaced… Discussion The Whistler 2 Likes

December 2011

Barren. Carlotta, Jo and I drink and chat There is one empty whiskey bottle and one half full on the coffee table between us. The three of us are soft with the drink, slow and tired with laughter. Ther… Discussion Barren. 1 Like

October 2011

The Inner Sorrghum Went for another one of those walks The kind where you don’t find what you ought Feels like my shoes are walking off with me Now all the past comfort has gone and it seems . . . Life is a slip The mo… Discussion The Inner Sorrghum 1 Like

July 2011

Paraprosdokian 2 : "She got her good looks from her father, he's a plastic surgeon". Discussion Paraprosdokian 2 : 2 Likes "R e v e l a t i o n M e d i t a t i o n" “REVELATION MEDITATION” THERE IS JUST (1)/I AM JUST (2)/THERE IS JUST(3)/I AM JUST (4)/… THERE IS NO PAIN/.. THERE IS NO AGING/.. THERE IS NO HATRED/.. THERE IS NO FEAR/.. THERE IS NO WAR/..… Discussion "R e v e l a t i o n M e d i t a t i o n" 1 Like

June 2011

A Full Moon Night in Goa (before the arrival… Palms like quills Painted the night sky Indigo Moon like milk Bathed the earth In her Liquid Silk Cupping our hands We drank The Melting Stars. Discussion A Full Moon Night in Goa (before the arrival… 2 Likes "The Stars Beneath The World" The Stars Beneath The World* For Wazzi, and Dr. Robert H. HERE I STAND/ UNDER THE STARS BENEATH THE WORLD … Discussion "The Stars Beneath The World" 1 Like For Sarah I am dreaming of your shadow an image of the "you"holding my hand melting my mouth sailing together as "one", not two Mere dream or virtual reality what's the difference.... I am dreaming of your s… Discussion For Sarah 1 Like notes on city living your wet legs streaked with motor oil and neon triple x reflectionstreat us with disdain to keep us tight held in the grip of your thighseyes like a fist to the jaw makes a sound as loud as the silen… Discussion notes on city living 3 Likes Testing Testing The inspiration for this came from quote by a 'Blues Artist'. " A man with male pattern Baldness isn't the blues, a women with male pattern baldness, thats the blues", and a perspective on the cons… Discussion Testing Testing 1 Like