uncleared water

she shows
projects the puzzle box pandora forgot
kept demons locked in their swaddling cloths
please expound on the difference between
slut and enigma

a low yellow glow
her headlights are cloudy
trying to guide tired eyes
our fathers and her father
left no spikes in the tires

she sewed
a special spot, your name
lest she forgot her soul
was once big, shared loud like
a poor christmas crock pot

he knows
she subsided with a riptide
underwent the undertow
until all to see are
lowest common facial features

waters grow with the
click of the odo and
taps on phone screened

and he knows
the great distances
are ones unseen

of white to pink/unfold to wilt

sex of pollen bursting

gives little shelter

your sister goes before

the tabernacle rattles

swoon to fallen

colors change

arrange rearrange

in front of you

go before you feel

your sisters tears

mulch and motley

feels ungodly fears

shedding, peeled

gaining years

my life

first musical roads

then the stage, bigger stage

songs, songs, songs

the entire album

screams screams screams

from girls, and girls

believing in me

coming together

being musicians, being

on different continents for weeks

smoked, dropped

i can see the spirits

changed into costumes

then i had a beard

then

then

years imploded

confusion

bad accident

screams, girls, crying

i didn’t feel anything

remembered

rest

poem #1

i followed it and tackled it, angry,
until i had it headlocked

it swallowed spit and when it bit, fangy
my arm hung limp in deadlock

when will feelings learn
to wait until their turn to show

resentment to me
on the street is where everyone knows

that i loved you and from you,
the one thing i got in return

was this feeling of reeling
like butter, these guts pound and churned


heart be still, it's my will
and only my sense you obey

i'll be ruled by no hearty fools
oh please tool me tward matters of grey

for the brain holds no pain
just the stains that remain
of the memories that stayed to serrate

but my heart is a lark
that will start to embark
at the speed of a quark and migrate