Poetry
Waxing Gibbous
This duality Midway In all kinds of ways A once blurry binary What was it she said to you? As lovers entwined An uncanny queer cadence What is it you wanted from me? Waning Waxing […]
Year: 2022
Poetry
Do It Anyway
-For these forty-five years- I’ve stepped onto the precipice Recalling my reflectiveness At times the cold, hard mess of this My wild and precious life -Halfway point if I’m lucky- All of those suitcase stop […]
Poetry
Sober Bi Babe Blues
I chug water like booze As if the muscle memory alone Could provide some relief The pain getting drowned Without the hangover The regret The shame of failure Somewhere the phantom spirits Numb this shredded […]
Poetry
Wound Brother
You know I can see him right? Standing inside you Desperate for love For affection The sensitive little soul This world a crushing burden Your masculinity performed better than mine For an entirely different audience […]
Poetry
A Year in the Life of a PhD
Trying to pull strands of light From the inky abyss Atrocities that can scarce be put into words Let alone analyzed By this mind With its eternal lack of knowledge Merely chipped away at with […]
Poetry
All Cops Aren’t Bastards
I don’t know Maybe you had to have been there Seen the fireball up close The searing, glaring horror of it To understand How no one in their right mind Would run into it Think […]
Poetry
Old Trotskyist Rides the 73
If you pay attention You just might see ghosts Ambling up Albion Road Smiling, laughing, joking You stroke your snow white hair In disbelief at this apparition The two lost rock and rollers Still inexplicably […]
Poetry
La Douleur Exquise
The depth and pull of My stormy soul Heart thudding with every Measured mile One more second, hour, day “One day at a time” Unleashed passion with no Denouement Except those mad dreams Where I’m […]
Poetry
Life and Death Valley
The springs that flowed When I didn’t understand their origin The messy, dripping curse of it Distracting the mind And its supposed logic Her pills Tiny capsules raining Tapping on porcelain His “No!” The struggles […]
Poetry
The Former Lover
The clouds moved Like storms on Jupiter How I wished I could be Anywhere but here Counting down the hours to dissolution The me you loved was always a chimera Her realness is not to […]