a brittle back
a restless heart
a race to see
which falls apart
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Posted in poetry on October 12, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
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-Daniel
at long last
Posted in poetry on September 13, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
at long last
i have befriended the sparrows.
not that we chat
over coffee and cream cheese
but in our silent way
we have grown close.
i must be gentle
when uncrossing my legs
else they scatter like rain
falling home to the sky.
Serra
Posted in poetry, tagged daily poem, poetry on June 5, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
my friend the poet
lays with me in the center
of our womb
more metallic than either of us
remembers it
but holding us all the same.
we are the swell of a wave
that carries only once
and this moment is so sacred
I begin to want to tame it
freeze it
hold it still.
it is just then
we are joined by a
young boy living in
a continuous laugh
who runs in and around us
and out once again
leaving behind the echo
of freedom
deoxyribonucleic
Posted in poetry, tagged daily poem, poetry on June 4, 2011 | 1 Comment »
I try to see the universe
as a mindless thing
but I can’t take myself
too seriously.
my DNA is too loquacious,
125 billion gregarious miles of babbling
genetic brook, begging to be
heard. if a little thing like me
makes all this noise,
what cacophony must
the rest of reality
wreak in the void?
home cooking
Posted in poetry, tagged daily poem, poetry on June 2, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
we learned to make her pancakes
we watched her crack the eggs
mix the yogurt
sugar
flour
learned to drip the batter into
sizzling oil and
wait just long enough
before flipping them
over
the recipe was less numbers
and more feel-
her hands, so old and strong,
her eyes, erupting in color
from a fountainhead of wrinkled skin,
her breaths, measuring out the time
spent teaching us
i come home after a long day
to the tupperware on the top shelf
of the refrigerator,
that holy grail of her
sacred pancakes.
I bless them on the stove top,
giving them heat,
bringing her touch back to life.
I anoint them with
sour cream
and drown myself in her artistry
knowing that I learned
the recipe for a reason. one day
I will have to make them
for myself.
neighborhood
Posted in poetry, tagged daily poem, poetry on June 1, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
it’s a hard world outside
I hear the crack of hand on skin
she screams,
but her pain is
drowned out
he yells a hard line
I press my body to the wall
beside the window
casting sheepish glances
at the scene
success
Posted in poetry, tagged daily poem, poetry on May 31, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
I stopped thinking and it came
it was that easy
like slicing flesh and bleeding ink
perhaps a lucky break
maybe never again
but tonight I sleep on a bed of words
and for me
that will always be enough
trinity
Posted in poetry, tagged daily poem, poetry on May 30, 2011 | 4 Comments »
my skin believes in fables.
it prickles in the nighttime,
soothed by the crackling hiss of fire
warmed by the way old crones
weave mystery from the mundane.
my bones are atheists.
they sense their degradation,
feel themselves grow fragile
brittle and ready to break.
they know no god but entropy.
my mind is undecided.
it swims in molecules and bathes in electricity,
not understanding its own workings,
parsing the outside into its smallest parts,
awed by the fury of the whole.
