Long Unnamable Poems

Huge life like mockup 
rigged up to bark
dare buzzfeed outsize monstrosity
diet coke, McDonald's and meatloaf
pet banality, execrable, and misogynistic words
greets visitors at formerly named
Mosquito State Park forever known as
Donald Trump State Park.

Whom so e'er decreed...

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jenny & johnny
(two hetero-swingers)
were enjoying the sunrise for their first time
with swirling rays of blissful first contact,
animalistic scents filling one another’s nostrils 
(faces all stuffed up in each other’s prospective 
cooch & coin purse)
with nectars...

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Upon a time not so long ago
I saw these things, and locked them away,
Treasures in memory's secret stores:

A sunrise of Apocalyptic brilliance,
Clouds of opal strewn
Above a sapphire sea.

White ruins of an ancient city,
Once home to...

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Upon a time, not so long ago
I saw these things, and locked them away 
In the treasure room of my memory:

One sunset, Apocalyptic in its brilliance;
Clouds of opal shimmering,
Flying across a sapphire sea.

The white ruins...

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It could be seen in the rough surf 
Marco and Laura traveling towards French style turf 
Touring the gulf 
Showing the teeth of an angry wolf 
Winds swirling 
Waves curling 
Water hurling 
Like a southern...

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(“The Search For Unnamable Things Merit Badge”, 2011, original oil)

A Great Unknown

I figure there are just a handful or two
Of friends and family who really know me
But last night in a dream a roommate told...

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...dead mice thus far do gnaw, splintered mirrors
neck and rubber yet with scant regret.
Ropes both for hanging and climbing, good grief,
bad love, honey-do-dew in a salty brew.

In my closet, pockets unpacking pockets, 
string bags under...

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Here at the heart of the darkest day 
Darkest light at noonday and midnight 
The shadows show the holes to a different realm 

A different reality, negative images of creation 
The opposite of light, the...

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Weave together twine, yarn, and natural hemp ropes. 
Tie 9 knots after you've braided and blasphemated 9 popes. 
Do this accordingly to restrain all within this bind. 
All while chanting hypnotic vibrations formed in the...

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I. Noise in an empty hallway:
My old leather shoes protest as I hurry down the linoleum tiles
Like I'm wearing a little piece of history older than I am.

II. Headlights on a dark road:
Speeding down narrow...

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The mind is a long walk home,
dinosaurs unnamable
litter the green turf
of our travels.

Reptiles shrink to birds,
the larger birds collapse like balloons
eventually running out of sky.
Lizards rest in the top nest
of every reaching spine.
Some imagine waking...

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He makes a cradle with his arms 
for the pup to sprawl in
and languidly lets his swarthy body
sag in the rocking chair.

Something about him smacks
of black magic; maybe his eyes.
Sometimes, like an impenetrable 
wall of...

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If you had never heard the word beautiful,  
Would you know what it means?  
Could you grasp it in the curve of a smile,  
In the hush of a sunset bleeding into...

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I was sitting in a church filled with light and beauty 
listening to an organist as he gently fused my soul 
Even the flowers on the alter seemed to be entranced
in this ethereal place where...

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The sun has centered me
into a fascinating glare,
humble reason
amongst simple people
no to be misplaced.

They carry a hidden regret,
that constant abstraction	
makes them survive
the unnamable decline,
those empty sentences devoid of meaning.  

Here I come into the...

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If I took my heart out of its cage
you would think: "ah offal, just meat,
fresh blood if I eat it quickly."
.
Crazily, you call 'need' love,
you're crazed, heartless,
a cannibal, a crippled dog
baying at a savage moon.

Limp...

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A lady is missing.
She does not answer her voice mail,
distant friends look for signs
indications of further steps.

It can be presumed, assumed
that the end of her brilliant earth existence
faltered somewhere between night and day
where she wrote...

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I Am as am, in being-ness complete
Self luminous, with vibrant bliss replete
Here and now present, in the joy current
Centred in void, to each pulse cognisant 
Swaying to the rhythm of loves heartbeat 

I Am both...

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clouds

appear as shapes

dragons sometimes

forks and trees

naming the unnamable 

a search for home

(Anthony and Cleopatra)



busyness

seeming much to do

and the rain

in opposition

(King John)



tears

and swollen rivers

dissolving

the boundaries 

separating home

(Richard II)



the weather

seems to facilitate

or oppose

bringing to stories

uninvited guests

(Love's Labor...

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My Very Best Was given to You


My very best 
was given to you. 
The information he have learned,
his powers he holds back through. 
The memory’s we had 
in our travels and trainings. 
Slipping inside 
Is...

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("Heaven and Earth", 2024, original encaustic)

Planting a Seed

Sitting quietly
I find a seed within my heart
and entering into it plant something 
unnamable which was there all along
but unplanted.

The seed grows into a tree
which expands, arms out
to...

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