Category Archives: Poem

I can’t snowshoe.It stays too warm. Cougars in the county.I’d like to see one.

It’s been above freezing here all weekall the snowfrom deer seasonis melting.

when I started here my wife gave me a white gold chronograph from her jewelry store in the mall like all successful salesmen here wear it weighed my left hand down, silver and crystal reflections constantly tugging at my attentions I left it for this softer, flatter one, yes, yes weeks ago the batteries stopped …

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sipping rosé beneath my rudderless patio umbrella the recently divorced mother of two is so fucking livid by carpools, elevators, and skinny jeans packed with stage actors longing to buy her rosé.

When I am running, left pulling ahead of right pulling ahead again and again and a gain faster than I think I can, my stomach is empty.

My breath is the wind and my body a cloud pushed through a clear summer sky ever faster, ever steadier, ever calmer, ever easier.

Liquid breath laughs laps against a stoney shore rebounding into a path of cobblestone glass tempting us to an unwritten horizon.

The still shoreline a patient sawblade the color of spent charcoal and spilled blood. Miles away a lonely lighthouse.

sloppy, cold rain drops drop a parking lot of glaring headlights onto my glasses as I warily kick the arm of a reluctant lug wrench in brand new flip flops.

Traffic lights count down to car horns complaining over the smallest delay. Miles of rope protect the greenness of the park’s grass from leaving on skinned knees. Fountains are emptied of water, of pennies, of hopes, of delight. The children are in a darkened museum, next to extinct birds and mammals, tapping unresponsive touch screens.