“Even though she was wearing a mask, we could tell she was smiling”It’s something in the eyesJoy Beaming out I see it with dogs way more frequently than cats Gospel singers on a dominant with a flat nineThe pain is of joy and is real Exuberant Billionaire executives at the dining table of the Oligarchic…
Category: Poetry
Here is a collection of various poems spanning the last five years. Among these are a few from decades ago
Hummingbird
Wings of ice and desireYou’re free to flyGo too far You move too fastYou’ll never die Don’t go too near the sunYou’ll melt your wings my precious oneShine light and a golden word Moving like a rock a mountain Like a hummingbird Sometimes I know you like no one canOther times Slipping throughLike grains of…
Bright Red Spoon
Make sure to wrap their meals Clear shiny plastic It’s a long ways to the edge of spaceThe food these weightless voyagers eatCareful wrapped in clinging polymers emitting their adventurous Nano particles There is a weak blood/brain barrier floating in this endless night “How does one control the reactor at the rear of the craft?”…
Angst
Who stole my Dorothea Tanning? was it some homeless grifter? was it a tire salesman? was it my gynecologist?As the headline reads:Woman Goes to Get Brazilian Wax, Alarmed to Notice Waxer Is Wearing Video Recording GlassesProphesied by Duchamp Decades before Étant donnés: 1. La chute d’eau 2. the illuminating gasAs the bright red Moon…
Future
the questions you ask are more importantthan what you knowIt takes energyto make the futurePull them backthe smartest people in the nationworking on national defenseWhy? August 16, 2025 SGL Brunswick, ME
Ameriakkka
I have an eyeIn the steak of America The arrow flies from the perfect front yard Right through the heart of the eagle It fluttered to our feetFeathered and disemboweled It turns on the bbq spit at our feetour stinking feet our putrid Beaches of Iwo JimaFeatA festival of podiatristsDancing awkwardly To the Tower of…
Struggle
They fought mightily at the bottom of the bulkhead at the bottom of the stairsleading to the main deckThe small cruiser was anchored at the lip of a beautiful lagoon They each had a death’s gripon the mailbag that held the secret codethat unlocked the unyielding Power, from the deepest fissures This was the secret…
AI poem attempt
The prompt: Take this paragraph and turn it into a world class poem in the style of Roethke, Plath and that era of American poets: The prompt: Take this paragraph and turn it into a world class poem in the style of Roethke, Plath and that era of American poets: “An AI may never be…
Kawz
Why shouldn’t crows and ravens be called caws and cause of course with a different inflection ?Death is so ever present still … very stillwaitingHow old was my dead mother when she painted thatinspirational sign?“Some things have to be crooked to straight”The toxic PFAS sludge was applied decades agoMaking the venison inedible Hunters angeredCarrion laid…
Roscoe
As a puppyHe would run right up your chest In bedIn the morningCeaselessly tickling your face with his wild tongue Getting all the salt a face can hold JoyousNow his clouded eyes still beam with the relentless love that has always shone thereStraight to my breaking heartthe authenticity of death has captured his mobility Time…