Magical (12.27.10)

trinkets crawl up the walls
shining and whistling a merry tune
to pass the frames, sills, and sockets
fore the morn turns to the noon

there a resource tied to ceilings swarms within the bandage care
a spinster spent the worse part of a day
making him that hurting coat

tie it to the orderlies
release them in an orderly

just make sure the blinds are down and drawn before you set off

Juniper Exits (12.10.10)

slicking down this interstate

more early than it's late

consistently checking the nothing behind

I pass a thousand each second

loving each one

without conditions, who the air cares?

with enmity, between you and me, constantly, I wanna see, gotta be, true

stay bloody

refuse the refuse

washin the morning

the gourd will ache

but you mustn't take

just swallow the pressure until it's too much

then you can touch

and then you can rush

into the mistakes

you're so prone to make

see that sign?

turn left here

Understated (11.24.10)

striving just to catch her eye through a social eruption ruling in my vicinity

heads held back guffawing pleasing

always wonder why others are so easily amused

left unlaughed

likely to concentrate on her face and place in the area

I know the environment

now it's my battlefield

once nothing more than hallway

if only on an earlier day I'd built a trap door

waiting for

when she giggles due to their likes

my vision pains me

when she giggles on account of me

it is sweeter than a honeyfall

more pleasant than shaving with whipped cream

sans any consequences

only now

I've tried to look my possible best

probably took longer than her to get ready for this night in this crowd

could there be someone to her like she is to me?

I mean,

another germ to infect and pest

dressed nice

wares or not

a target on his chest seen only through her eyes

God, no

without a word and find the passage

to the night air

still crowd

of women I never want to know

all you heros can have them

I take all the fingers on my left hand

and all the fingers on my right hand

and beckon my hair down

on the sides of my head

in front of my ears

feel the openings of each nostril with my right index knuckle

smile at the girl who is out here smiling at me

then turn and head back into the fray

today is my today

sea (11.15.10)

see

beauty

grotesque

child

man

celebrity

depravity

depressant

sex icon

worn traveller

rumored

cyclist on Calgary

limping bad

madly

circling an area

beneath troubles of bugles

messes of musty marines

spilling liquid like lilies licking dew

heathens and homeoseptic jives

killing kling kling kling

diving into

lockers of the deep

holding notes of drama-lusting fish that knew no better

seize

squeeze

pass the parliament

pound the pulpit with perverse power

towers

taken and shaken

pings of man

hurry Hell

chains of clawing

mauling tolerance

of all her lost beauties

mark

misting paladins

swinging swipes of swift seductions

poising pears

pallet pallet pallet

arches yanking

tearing shares of stock

to follow in feeble findings

fortifying figurines

follicles full of ambiguity

pills and plastics

sinking into a dark place

where the pain in jaws

shrieks with masochistic lullabies

of numbing melodies

peace be unto you

H (11.9.10)

compliments of the house
woke the architect one night
clutching these straws
preventing passage
a wet pillow
dead partner
trapped in his tomb
make room

blueprints of heresy line the black satin
she waits seductively atop the shelves

a poison in his plastic cup
remarked and retried
one failed attempt pissed the hirer
the ling left
no pay, but not willing to confide
nor override
escape: a welcome pass

throwing the blanket over his head
air stifled, but he didn't care
he just wanted to sleep

Parniged (11.4.10)

so this elderly man

bless him, did what he can

took another step

pulled on her legs

another football field or so to the pit

he held in his air, heaved again

and those drag trails were five miles in coming

it was a miracle they hadn't found him

he moved with concern

desire in his exertions

for a senior citizen, sure mighty in time

she was pretty once

or so he kept sayin

I wouldn't second-guess

his entity

straining, sweated dry

shaking in strength

but he kept on draggin that dame's bod

when the headlights appeared

turning and coming

he only paused for a moment before his largest effort yet

covered ground like a cat

with all his weight and hers

bringing them both the edge of his earlier labor

with a twist of his back

a pop that smacked back

in retaliation of how its operator ran things this late in the game

her corpse hit the bed

rocking the head

limbs collapsing unnatural way

before I could know his next phase in the scheme

the car had come and shone their deer

one of 'em inside

took out of the ride

shooting the old animal down

and he fell

right into her arms

and both were safe from further harm

home dead

Lenny (8.07)

Lenny loved lines,

licking limes

lynching mimes and

munching mutton at all.

Trevor took two,

telling the truth,

ticking time like

Lenny’s lines and limes.

Sally is a skank.

Covers (10.20.10)

Suppose this handle

found its way

past script of all the downing fog

entered the tomb

of Prince Forol

and slipped beneath his skull

a piece to grip while he all sleep ventures through the gate of ore

sparkling dull

kerosine to fuel this dream

a path to burn footsteps of redeeming value

gentle in this first intake

a partial problem

a hemorrhage

falling like rocks cast down from the heavens

where goddesses watch their spouses in a righteous envy

take not a ponder session from my house

leave me be

leave the treasure you though was not

for now it belongs and takes root

underneath my bed

Usually my head

Chin on a Keyboard (10.19.10)

freed

grateful

heroine

drive

hurdles

nit

chairyl

holiday

Allergies (10.18.10)

o that I had a thorn-tipped tongue

with which to settle each itch that come

roof of my mouth a flea-bitten desert

raging with this arid monsoon

each nostril converted to oozism

a humidifier defied by truth

futile extents to bother the box

only left to lift the level

spatial feats that dwarves can't beat

weeps due to no sorrow nor joy

one day long

barely covers one long day

mopped aside

like microscopic carci

Earth's pesticide

why vanquish me

a plea

send down a pillar of fire

rid us of this ragweed

where shall I go?

Away 3 (10.12.10)

Castaways

Virgins they

Maturation lost at sea

Sand between

Under each

Over two

Peninsula to populate

Isle of the idle minds

Sharpened sticks and rounded rocks

Telling of better time

Educate and procreate

Neath our head

Nothing like bread

Poor excuse for substance

Something less than barely

Inanimate flesh

A landing strip for flies

Treasures in them

Smoke could not hide their sins

The adults never learned to wade or swim or look

Throwaway

Past the paling

Peelings of our organs

Trailings of our inners

Path for the preachers to cannibalize their members

Our ancestors invite chosen us for dinner

Tides that tell lies

Across the waves she waits

An innocent mother

Impossible

Yet this shall be her fate

Hideaway the records

Burning journals

Tearing diaries in five

So nobody noses around our sphere

This liberty we found

Has killed the offspring

Slain the future

Ruined us

Pass away

Away 2 (10.11.10)

a grave individual

hatred in his lines

not black

a past

truth etched into him

the whipped whip

those days

of ark report

light filled life

weathered fine

every time

siblings peace

all tasks complete

wandered off the beach

seas piled high

Away (10.5.10)

Stowaways

Clasping hands in praying

No more bayoneting

Cotton riding by

Through the air

Beneath grey sky

The doorknob

Turning from the otherside

In they storm

In we hide

Silent as the dead

Years and hours

Water and spit

We arrive at port

Runaways

A Mound In Olympus (8.07)

it was one man

a lone Grecian

he sat upon the stone

which sat upon the hill

it was as if a throne

which sat upon the hill

he lived many years

as much as Juno’s tears

he was a wrinkle

and then with a twinkle

he was a star

which shone upon the hill

As FAIL (9.27.10)

batteries resurrect

demanding an insurgence

leak their acid

keep their shell

pull out of the contest

all for not

choke

spill on track his spine

fervent yells

keep the singeing

fusion hairs

that we collect

an odor of the finest

to react

interplace

with out any player

teal and red

backseat gamer

trouble is on the other side

of the glass

of the wood

not for all

canning

Last March (5.31.10)

Last March she expressed her love too

I was stopped mid-step

then asked if it were true

Last March the colonel had

he wept in his quarters

thinking he was alone

I remember well the way his sword

brushing wood like teeth would

the cotton on his cot dampened

he'd never lead again

Last March was also Jace's first

blue bonnets

Last March was also Jim's first

prisoners started as he passed

he had never laughed

others had and did then

he felt he'd sinned

he knew the chair was just

throne for the damned

no blood about it

yet

Last March Donna stared

the beautiful bastard cradled upon her arms

suddenly burst into sobs

she knew he'd gone

turning to the window

observing us embrace and brush our lips

face to face

Jace's grandfather pulled in, went in

held his daughter who held her son

my girl and I went on

Last March

Cheapened (9.13.10)

i walked by you yesterday

price was nine ninety-nine

today i thought

to pass again

see what you're at this time

as i walked down your aisle

familiar with both sides

i thought aloud

what if perchance

a discount i would find

i arrived at your empty shelf

a basket in my hand

it was to be your cradle

until you would be scanned

i left your empty shelf

aisle, store, and street

then off i wandered elsewhere

looking for one to eat

Filliw (7.13.10)

He drank longly from the pewter

Leaving floating debris of shreds of

Sleeping atop cards and boards

Slitting the banners of the royalty royally

In such a way

To leave arrayed

These trails of carci strewn and threwn

Signs root deep

Still steep in lore and lichens

Moss carpet and holed windows

Forest all the woodland drottle

Once a moon, the towns can sight

His methods of procuring

Exhuming lives and assassinating deads

Buses halt to halt

He's part of the tour now

At Lars's (8.07)

It was twelve ninety-five

He gave me a twenty

I gave him back seven zero five

He said that was plenty

I said, “No, that’s exact”

He said, “Is that a fact?”

I said, “Yes sir”

He opened his wallet

“This is where I keep my money”

I said, “Yes sir”

He said, “Do you wish to extract some?”

I said, “No thank you sir. Have a good day.

Can I help the next person in line?”

A woman approached

She carried a box of cereal and wore a broach

“Find everything all right?” I was going to ask

But the sir interrupted my task

Holding his wallet, opening it wide, he said,

“You donkey! Stick your hand inside!”

I did as ordered and felt the wallet’s inners,

The sir’s leather purse had my right hand for dinner

As I sit in the hospital bed

I write an account of this afternoon

Thank goodness it ate the right hand

Because I am right-handed

Otherwise I would have had trouble writing

My story.

Jarred Demtrogs (7.20.10)

caught six by the grove this morning

I beat the sun

the only way

they squirm upon my mantle

within their glass cell

pushing their treachy faces against the walls

they spit and swear and curse and wail

they best learn manners before my daughter awakes.

Contested Mariona (6.7.10)

said no sense in leavin

crossed her arms and spit

the farmer dropped his pack

and bit his lower lip

axe leaned against the door

hat hangin from the lamp

he picked back up his pack

said it makes a lot of sense

and enter in euphrates (9.6.10)

child of a wayward parent

lay down your bow

your past

strip off the armor you wore well

helm to boot to raiment

closen eyes which sift through times

faults of all her favors

enough life to realize

burdens of our neighbors

lesions and age

ride upon your face

prove readable at last

come now

and enter in euphrates

wash it all downstream