Tag: relationships

The Philosopher’s Verse

If I’m gonna think or do anything
might as well mean something to someone
is more or less what philosophers thought
in every battle that came to pass
blood was spilled for a thousand ruby stones
before forests gave way to our flames
I stood with my family atop the promontory
overlooking plains of restless buffalo. Continue reading The Philosopher’s Verse

To Heaven

The neurotic old man one day found
an old journal of hieroglyphic scratches
and where creases ran into flesh
was a face of rumpled Christmas sweaters. Continue reading To Heaven

Icarus Died in the Spring

If we touch up our faces just right
the universe will reveal itself
to those who get lost in the sun,
that rather unseemly warning sign,
whose monstrousness averts our fair eyes,
where life depends on death. Continue reading Icarus Died in the Spring

Ma & Me

I wear these jeans like my mama showed me
how you fold up the cuffs evenly
and not too high, capris are for summer
and shoeless spring gardening in the mulch
is how she was at her best. Full of life:
Still green tomatoes and sprightly veggies
who couldn’t stop growing if they tried
as if trying to dazzle Ma and me
by being clearly bigger by the day
like the son and brother we wished for
him to sprout when summer came around,
the teachers won’t even recognize him
come Labor Day
but we didn’t ask the seasons to change
or for the soil to dry out
or for the showers to go on for days
and days must’ve passed before she was well
enough is enough, I one day yelled
more at God than anyone else.