Though my teeth sit on the shelf behind the mirror and gravity has hammered my spine into an “S,” I remain frozen behind my passing molecules, the moments of my memory shaking. I was looking through some old works of mine to see how I had done them and I came across this incompletion. I…
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That Car Passing
“Did it seem like that the car that just passed did so with a sort of purposeless intent just to get in front of you, as though it were driven by someone being pulled into the context of your perception?” “Sure, I saw a ham sandwich and a cup of coffee being held as I…
A Glitch in a Subroutine
“Why have I been summoned to Dirtville?” demanded the lord. “Is it so urgent that you cannot email me your petition like everybody else?” “Sorry lord” said Jason. “ I didn’t quite know how to put it into words.” “Then it isn’t the usual petition for money, avoidance of catastrophe, needing help out of catastrophe…
The Top of the Stairs
At the top of the stairs is a buzzing silence and a below zero chill It’s eleven PM and the powdered air is frozen to the wood boards clattering as I release them from my step On a wire above the tree a chickadee answers the sound of a cockatiel from inside Copyright 2017…
The Old Horse
The old horse is led from the stable and taken behind the barn where he is fed dry hay and given a pale of water. But he is disinterested, dropping to roll instead and thrashing from the pain strangling his stomach. Mike the Vet has come to this farm nearly thirty years to tend the…
I Sit At the Table Typing These Words
You’ve been lying about the code and I can’t believe what you’re saying Still I heard everything all the thoughts that pierced my brain what I thought was the static of blood in my head is turned off at night and a transmitter plays the songs of divinity lying above the cove with hope in…
The Many Headed Reasoner
I hear the voices of words in juxtaposition I decipher with a creation of reasoning in ways which the impetus was never intended I fictionalize elements of theatrics in my head and feel my way about as though I have intention yet, when I wake up scattered from a dream, I feel I have got…
The Legislator Gives You a Dirty Look When You Make Eye Contact With Him While Shopping at the Supermarket
Stone splitter Alone and bitter Rapt in a daze Thinking words are Lumps of clay Like grave markers. You eyeball me from a stake, from a law room with chirping birds and squeaking questions that only beg for confessions Whence the frowning pain that chirps and hates? Where to escape the rain of flame that…
Promises of Gold
I won’t waste time stopping my fears But I wouldn’t mind you stopping a while Gold is a waste if you can’t see it taste it or feel it, take it out once a while. Waiting for the Summer to please me, forward is a breath beyond illusion on my knees I drag my devotion…
She Takes a Step
Just another one of a number of love ballads which I have been constructing for a possible music lp later in 2017. Nothing set in stone. RJH She takes a step and evening falls bringing me to my knees candles kiss one light is two on her breath is the spirit that makes me…
