“How This Ends,” “Pain of the Past,” “The Long Road,” and “That Kind of Love”
How This Ends He’s getting, Another, COVID vaccine, Eager to, Get in, The way, Of death’s, Possible plan, Yet again, To jam it up, Embrace the, Quiet…
The Flower-Like Second Sonnet
I conceive the brilliant lilac. I build admirable holly. I design pleasant marigold. I constitute pleasing lily. You devise outstanding iris. You…
“Opal Equinox” and “Predatory Paradox”
Opal Equinox Purple smoke & pearlescent intentions, I never wanted to leave you shivering in the dirt, my timepiece white rabbit cracked. Spider…
“Flower Bed,” “Mental Health,” and “Standing in the Slaughterhouse Checkout Line”
Flower Bed The stench of death lingers longer than an inhaling flower, rigor mortus lays stiffer then a stem rooted in concrete, bluish skin wilts as…
“Mammoth Carcass,” “An Ode to the Deadness That Sits on My Head,” and “A Revolution in Self-Perception a.k.a. the Feminine Urge”
Mammoth Carcass All I got is irk like a mammoth carcass unearthed in the soviet tundra hiding vex in tar, heeding deep time’s damn. An ode to the…
Sonnet About Apollonian Beauty of the World
We think of the fascinating charm. We fantasize about wizardry. We ponder on the amazing bard. We reflect on poetic beauty. We muse about astonishing…
“The Podcast Poet,” “Dream with Johnny Depp and Quicksand,” “Old Boats,” and Other Poems
The Podcast Poet The worst thing about this super slick poet on the podcast with his good looks and slim physique and 50-dollar hairdo is not that…
“Keys to the Heart” and “Dogs and Humans”
Keys to the Heart Another, Father’s Day, Comes, And goes, He’s, Still, Young enough, To remember, Those, Few times, When it, Was, A special, Day, For…
“Thunder and Lightning,” “A Strong Black Woman,” and “Lining Up a Combo Shot”
Thunder and Lightning it’s always the calm before the storm the yellow sky that experience tells you leads to nothing good a few drops of rain light…
Hickory Dickory Dock
Even the moon landing was an act of discrimination. Blacks get cut out of everything; even the bombing of Hiroshima failed to include them. That the…
