Dry Out Poems

A Well Paid Collapse

...The alarm clock sounds off to the tune of Neil Young’s, There’s a World. 
A place that is non-existent in today’s life of a constant upwhirl. 
Our dreams and aspirations are put to the side.  
To ...

Interview with a Barnacle

...
The recorder clicks on.

What made you stay?

I didn’t stay.
I fastened.
I was made to fasten.
And if you're made to fasten,
you look for something moving.
Something strong enough...

Desert Rose

...A pretty little rose born in desert land
Growing in torched hot sand 
Where loneliness all around 
And no company can be found 
Lashed by sunlight
Dry out in hot thirsty night 
Though don't kno...

The Haze

...THE HAZE

Shuffle, I shuffle through the haze; Stopping just short of the light.
I reach up, only stabbing with splinters the tiny fractions of time.  It's this, this, this, and that.
The pieces ...

Michigan

...I’m from Michigan.
I don’t know what I want.
So I just go to school in state to save money.
The money lives in a Michigan bank.
I cheer our school mascot.
At a football game and it rains and sno...

Unforgivable

...I'd love to dry out your arteries,
and expose all your pleasantries.
Lose you in the deserts braid,
and use you as vulture bait.

I'd drop you off the highest tower,
into a monster eating flowe...

Sunday Thinking Cap

...I wore my thoughts on my head like a ball cap today

Ready to take off and disregard

or to turn around, tilted in the opposite direction

Easy to grab at, to throw away, to steal,

to sneaki...

Waiting for the storm to pass

...People started running,
for buses, taxis, trains,
with umbrellas no defence,
against the wind and rain,
a drowned rat cycled past,
then disappeared down a lane,
when lightening flashed, I dashe...

Howe Meadow ITQ

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Written: January 22, 2024
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I hear the wild cry as I sleep,
no roaming goats or gulls or sheep.
Tire them out, no trace of drea...

horoscopes and hot air

...My Astrologer, ‘Sex and Love’ horoscope, for Halloween, is grim and on-trend for me.
(Libra) “Get ready to take some chill-time - give yourself the space to recover. People pleasing is out, boundari...

The Shovel

...It’s quite a thing to lay a life to rest,
to place rocks over roots rotten with age,
cover leaves once green with soil, sodden from rain.

Conceived in the meeting of metal and wood,
born a size...

I Have a Woman

...I have a woman.
I’m proud to call her my wife.
Some give theirs’ nicknames, ‘her indoors’ and ‘the trouble and strife’
Now, I have my flaws and they are many and vast.
I think like a man, slowly ...

Prescience of Mind

...Some things we can touch are truly set in stone, 
   From creatures living in sand, to ones choking on fish bones 
        They get stuck in mud, and dry out under the sun, 
 til after a hundred m...

Too Damp To Be Wet

...A briefly wrung-out sky
is blotched with clammy clouds.
A humid air clings to my chest.

Damp squirrels hang limply
from dripping branches.
Desultory birdsong mops
but not much.

I yearn for...

The Song of a Pleading Heart

...Curse you! Oh! The river of time,
Why should you be so cruel
And embarrass your beautiful chime?
Why should you bring her carriage,
To ruin the song of love,
To ruin a beautiful marriage?

O' ...

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