Thursday, May 30, 2013

Trains



I was sitting
bare kneed
by the tracks
So many trains
had passed
Dining cars
bulging
with revelers
Glasses clinking
with happy returns


I was sitting
my face buried
in a book
Listening
to every word
So many trains
had passed

I was lying
in bed
lost
in the sound
of rain

Listening
for the train
Tunneling
to unknown
regions 

And I wonder
Will I ride
this time?

Friday, May 24, 2013

A Georgia O'Keeffe sky




It was a Georgia O’Keeffe
sky
The night air
twitched with exhaust
And uptown holler

Caught in a
grainy Steiglitz world
Tensile steel and bitumen,
f stop and aperture

A street lamp 
blinks below
the day's brass and blare
fade away

Only the urgent tug
of moon
A large swell
drawing me closer

It was a Georgia OKeeffe
sky
The liquid quiver of her brush
I fall into the sky
trembling.

Friday, May 3, 2013

water snake



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Water snake

Come!!!!
swim with me
in the cress
of nameless want

Bell toed one,
You! On the
planked beach
Come!!

Bring your white belly
to settle
unsettled stone
Only


To swim
with your head
above water
And your mouth
open.