King Crab Poems

20 nods and 20 winks,
it’s all smoke-and-mirrors
me lazy bones think

Swampy eye creatures
say dey got a thousand-dollar discount 
sofa solution
And dey gon put me 
on a ten-dollar monthly lay-away plan

This 20/20 optical illusion
be straight up sewer smell talking
Old-timey lip confusion,
king crab...Read More

Alaska, The Last Frontier

Alaska; the wilderness state, the last frontier:
Where majestic mountains, 
Deliver streams into flowing rivers: 
Down slopes covered in forests 
Of Sitka Spruce and Western Hemlock
That dominates the landscape.
The name Alaska originates 
From the Aleut word 'Aleyska,'
Meaning the...Read More

You say in the name of Allah, before you slaughter a calf, picture agony split -n- half, while the air inhales my pain, but somehow I still laugh, turtles see a different sight than a giraffe, picture an alligator biting...Read More

Priests of cave temple
go to sleep. Street urchins
drink the thinner, eat nail polish,
crushed lizard for a kick and then
go without food for three days.

The valley burns. Of what consequence?
Sting of truth overreaches. Another committed
icon walks through the bodies
sleeping on slimed...Read More

The Moonlit shadows swept across the beach
The waves in the distance seem so out of reach
A beautiful sand castle stood all alone
A marvelous sight of seashells, gems, and stone
Out from a rock crawled a little crab
His current surroundings were a...Read More

Priests of cave temple
go to sleep. Street urchins
drink the thinner, eat nail polish,
crushed lizard for a kick and then
go without food for three days.

The valley burns. Of what consequence?
Sting of truth overreaches. Another committed
icon walks through the bodies
sleeping on slimed...Read More