Bed ruffled. Stink rises from the city dump. Old magazines stacked on chairs. Cranes like giant steel grasshoppers move in among the derelict brick weeds. Broken umbrella sailing in from Jersey City. Waves bring the joy of syringes and failed… Continue Reading
I know you heard my sleepless tongue repeat in sleep how I yearned to rearrange every whitecap letter of my name, so I could blacksmith my manner into Edmond Dantès. Each letter would spend a year in flame, the J… Continue Reading
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Day disappeared from the shallows: I asked for it back; my soft lines in your hard shell. Touch is frantic Everything you think you gave me duplicates in circles and holds hierarchy Unknowingly I taught myself magic during five-minute breaks… Continue Reading
fire of conflict I have to remember how —why I brought the matches what you spun ———fed on us ———left me ————-skin stretched over memory I thought change was natural a chasm between idea and the reality remember this—–the matches—–the… Continue Reading
This collection to me categorizes various stages of life with each art piece charting the next step we take, whether with others or by ourselves. The movie that is each of our lives celebrates acting upon whatever our role demands,… Continue Reading