Long Bickered Poems

Have you ever seen your organs on display?
it's quite... mesmerizing 
a.... disturbed euphoria if you will

The first item that I gazed upon
was my heart, it's beat
ever flowing in a rapid succession
of strings and multiple palpitations...

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Civility and Man: A Historical View

Since man began to populate the earth,
And feel the pull of Satan’s evil ways.
The angels came to teach the fallen souls: 
Proposing righteous ways to live earth days.
Decorum had been...

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The Place

I had to move to the big city. 
I miss the trees and fields. 
My world feels closed in. 
The walls ever nearer to me, 
physically, with the passing of each dawn.

I long to...

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As we headed with the shadows
Along the primrose path
You were bemused, you were afraid
You were alone
You let to live along with those
humanoids from the deep
Cursing you...
Yet you concealed your pain
With your smile that appeared so...

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SOMEHOW, ONE SUMMER, SOMEONE SOMEWHERE IN SOME WAY SUMMED IT UP

Somehow they work it out and get into bed
Somehow they’d both rather make love instead
Instead of fussing about things that matter not in the long...

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Le vaisseau d'or
Ce fut un grand Vaisseau taillé dans l'or massif:
Ses mâts touchaient l'azur, sur des mers inconnues;
La Cyprine d'amour, cheveux épars, chairs nues
S'étalait à sa proue, au soleil excessif.

Mais il vint une nuit frapper...

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CHRISTMAS TWENTY TWENTY

Christmas twenty-twenty—the last week of the year,
A year so full of violence, a year so full of fear.
It started very early with a virus that they named
And spread so very quickly from China...

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She bickered
He laughed
It was harmless
She was cute
It didn’t make him love her less
No one was hurt
No frown in sight
“It had no roots…
…Of course not!”
Or so he thought
So she bickered and bickered


She bickered
He giggled
It still seemed...

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One day I delivered a poem
one that seemed to be premature
so I swaddled her up
and set her aside
to grow 'til I felt reassured

How she yowled and howled for attention...
how she cried so piteously!
How she coughed...

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CHANGING WORLDS




.. And Unc' Nathan -
Well.., he just kept right on .., 
You.., (he coughed a long one) eyes.., 
They gonna' be square..

I blasted another.

'All that killing', said Ma..,
Lighting Grandpap's pipe.., 
Pausing.., for her own...

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Sharing Saturday

Sometimes I sit down and without any warning
I think about cartoons back on Saturday morning
How my siblings and I gathered around the T.V.
And then argued and bickered about what we'd see
Mom and dad would...

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Restless memories, faded yesterdays --

On my darkened wall a light appears,
grows bright, passes into darkness.
Outside:  the sound of ill-tuned engines.
A street lamp shines through my window --
the curtains really should be drawn.

In a hot...

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“Couldn’t we all just be right?”
At the hind end of the elephant holding its tail; the first blind man said.
“Rotten luck all of us being blind!” said the blind, seated man hugging a leg.
“Perhaps, this...

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It's November blowing headlong into Christmas 
Semi trailers piled with tight wrapped trees 
Southbound juggernauts of season 
As the reason for it brings us to our knees 

Beneath the rushing need of decoration 
And perfect...

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A thin-lipped nun blows her whistle.
An acre of concrete ground
stops playing, acting-out
our brief make-believe lives.

Reality is a cold wind
chewing at pale knees, gray shorts
and blue skirts.

Catholic children forget their names,
their made-up names as well.
as they...

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Note: A.ga.pe is three syllables.


John Moses assumed he was doing well.
You know only the absolute can tell.
His Agape, copy,
ranked totally sloppy,
At the gate Peter said, ”what’s that I smell?’

`T was certain girl from our poetry...

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