Long Taillights Poems

The year was 1978, 
my car, once again on the fritz;
I stuck out my thumb going to and from work 
hoping to catch a hitch.

After counting inventory late one night,
I thought I would have to...

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This is for the first time when I saw you standing there
with your curly, brown hair hung over the stare in your eyes
that made me first fall in love your great spark of humor
which starts...

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It is hunting season in the mist of beauty and delight
In the thick of the trees, sounds of shooting, deer run in fright
Some grow weak  are taken by man
Others  search for safety somewhere...

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I beckon nature to play her Symphony of Spring
when everything comes alive, revived once more.
When resident avian will have a chorus as backup, 
perched along limbs and branches of aged oaks,
arrayed in dresses the hue...

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I woke up rested this morning
And kinda excited too
Sending out text notifications to
A few friends for a review.
One in particular from so far away
I spoke with at length.
A few hours ahead in time
He spoke to...

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In halls of idol wind
Ribbons of rain
Ribbons of pain
Ribbons of the insane
Flying down the avenues 
Hands clutching the wheel
Eyes blur as my mind swims…
of my intellect's ravaged ruined labyrinth.
Tangling in the rivers 
of my specter...

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The Living God has moved on 
Jesus in his memory, cherry taillights
Receding down a long desert highway
Jesus’ words were, and still are, 
The only true gold
The ones that were actually his
All else is ruse

There is...

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Down dusty roads by ways,
Hidden trails spreading wide.
I've been seeking freedoms,
Blazing liberty on the back,
Of my Harley Davidson two,
Wheeling masterpiece.
 Along our nations country side.
I'm casting aside social shackles,
To breathe fresh airs exhaust 
Fumes,
Loving every...

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We said goodbye two years ago today -
I'll never forget the way I felt that day.
I couldn't breathe when the door closed between us
And your taillights dimmed as you drove away.

I never thought i'd breathe...

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Henry stood his rocky ground
     as he watched her board the bus,
Not one time did she look back
     but he heard her softly cuss
The cold wind; the...

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It doesn’t seem like that long ago I was heading to the park
Meet some friends and play until well after dark
It was a special time being young and free
Riding the sliding board or climbing a...

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Splash of neon light.
Neon glass shatters.
A pale face looms out of the gloom.
It shimmers into the night
Smash of an engine's steel, 
A flash of sharp car headlights.
Black eyes stare wide
Crash goes the ruby taillights, sparkling.
The...

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Ice crystals form on a once dusty road
Taillights shining brightly amongst the smoke
The old tall oak bruised but still standing strong
A pickled blackened heart no longer broke

If I were gone tomorrow would she care
Remembering that...

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Sitting on the soft cushion seat
Start of turtle movement
The advert on the bus
Is the only catchy appeal
The drumming of the engine
The grunting of the taxi
Dusk getting crisp
Dull glow of the sun
The glance at the sky
With...

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A snowstorm is coming. 
A big pink malignant mass on the weather map.
People panicking hoarding booze and gas.
I've got my shovel and old northern muscle.
I'm more than up to the task.

My doe-eyed neighbor seems unconcerned.
She's...

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Suburban waste stretches beyond and far away
Languishes under the hot hazy sun
Seasons reap
Memories run
Remembering things better left unseen
Memories reel in the theater on the mind
Things fragmented in frame
Of mental photographs 
Faded edges frail 
brittle fluttering...

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Here I sit...
Behind steering wheel.
My back is numb
My head reels.
Cars pass me left and right
Ribbons of crimson taillights 
Leave traces behind my eye
Deep in my mind. 
Speeding headlong into the deep
Blue indigo night.
I clench the...

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Seeing it’s dim light 
I feel relieved 

The sun is too strong 
The moon is too far away 
The stars are too glittering 
The headlights are too blazing 
The taillights make me too emotional 
The...

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I kept its funnel-cloud eyes.
I kept the inner workings.
Kept the plastic furniture 
while it cracked
into multidimensional bones.
I kept the whir of its mirroring mind.

A shutter undrapes shadows.
A shabby couch on a dusty porch,
still plays bluegrass...

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I came to her one night
like she came to me
softly and with a whisper
she said she had
a three-year-old daughter
at home.
The dining porch was a stage
where we lost ourselves in song
the backdrop blue and red neon...

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There was a moment 
in time and space no distance 
can erase when she was standing 
on an island in the middle 
of Times Square, cars whirling around 
from all directions, their Technicolor
taillights additive to...

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