Eyewitness (1.1.11)

enough to keep quiet
isn't always enough to put milk in the fridge

Harriet looked over her young child
watched over him

it had been seasons that snowy day
for most it was lost in the deck of days
shuffled away with those that looked pretty much the same
she knew the difference
like God

even though
this weather much a consonant
that facet that dwelled with
welded to the walls of her mind
no doubt
when you see color change like she did

her boy wanted a drink
so she opened the fridge

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