Long Sturdiest Poems

It’s the color of November, gray blue
weak as water…
	yet water can change the strongest steel,
		the sturdiest breath,	silenced
			by the water’s still, calm gesture…

in laughing swells, tears 
like currants, 
	blistering the surface of azure seas,
		growing, rising, surging...

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Behold the abominable annals of the Storm domicile,
A living, groaning edifice of lumber and bureaucratic despair—
Where Allen Storm, the paternal prodigal of procedural pedantry,
Treads upon its creaking floors with the rigor of a misfiled memo,
And...

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A castle on the hill, a symbol resolute.
built upon the broken backs of the poor.
The hungry and homeless of this land.
Enslaved to build, a symbol they despise.

Vast extravagance, and the sturdiest of form.
Representing the empires,...

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---Casualty Attack---

Like old memories
legs giving out
having grown tired in waiting
slouch through the 
cheese cloth of mind and
sour perception in guilt.

Guilt is the culture of the mind,
a great fungal expanse 
of 'what could be's 
and 'why...

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BLUBBERHOUSES MOOR

I have often pondered on words that have been written of your
verdant moorside chase, where so many faces you portray to suit
each season, the bluest haze of summer, autumn’s golden demise,
winter’s alpine crest and...

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"Every struggle in my life has been a lesson and made me stronger."
                      ...

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I am done trying
to win the favors of love
I am done beseeching
the dame fortune
I am done pleading
with the lady luck
I am done kowtowing to
the dictates of unyielding time
I am done holding on
to a faltering hope
I...

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A barn southwest of Central Butte
Could be seen for miles around 
Upon a hill, and that was how
The Mattus place was found

A big and very well used barn
With lots of stock and feed
Pride of the...

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Train bypassing just over the rivers bend
Sturdiest and unpromising of bridges, carry my feet along your lumber
Steal away the time I should be an honorable member of society
Keep me as your own and offer me...

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i mean...
she loved him up
something awful
rare poignant flower 
stagnate above seaweed
leveled bottom feeders

he scooped her quick
cupping her in his hands
once able now crippled
investing in her salve
rubbing and stretching them
loving him up something fierce

he closed his...

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Kulaks never acquisced* Stalin's regime of hierarchical Russia,
for it made them very prosperous growing grains for brewing Vodka,
and because of the prosperity, they seemed extremely rambanctious*...
unlikely the poorer peasants who we were less loyal and...

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What sort of life can one be expected to live
When forced independence is bestowed upon thee
Disowned and made to discern the world alone
Toughens up a woman beyond any measure

Beneath soft skin lies a frozen will
Cold...

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As social political apathy begins to set in,
Truth becomes the enemy,
And lies become the bullets 
Of the corrupted firing squad.

When immorality replaces decency,
Weak men become strong
Strong men become weak,
And the sturdiest of Oaks
Are splintered into...

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Squirrels are scampering over the back yard
Finding the stashes they missed during winter,
Looking very self-satisfied and accomplished
Tails shimmering, signs of mating energies.
Seems rather early to me, but they know
More than I about the approach of...

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We used to have the sturdiest of houses, 
standing alone atop the tallest mountain.
There were always earthquakes,
But they did not affect us so high up.
But slowly, the earthquakes started to shrink the mountain,
growing lower and...

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If you take Iraqi sand
And you mix it with some water
It will soften like the land
Spilled with blood of sons and daughters..
Now take it in your hand
Hold it gently in the sunlight
It will shapen at...

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