History Lost Poems

Fiendish, they encapsulate strawberries;
Subliminal message makes mouths water; 
Phantasms won’t let go of the fields 
lost to the four winds of conflagration;

Subliminal message makes mouths...

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A black girl lost in the world,
 Feeling like she doesn't belong,
 Her skin is a shade that stands out,
 In a society that tells...

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......The loss of Alexandria,
the burning of Ashburnham House,
the Grand Library of Baghdad
which the Mongolians tore down,
the countless Aztec codices
that the conquistadors all burned...
just thinking of...

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I was reading Aristotle,
because I am just weird like that,
and as I poured through ancient words
I was presented with the fact
that what I read from...

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HERITAGE

Like a last puff of dust from an empty room
Almost a cough, as the last sign of life calls
From times when it was a bustling...

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I may not be everyone's cup of tea
That I never invited anyone around to try
If you ever had the chance to meet me

You may not...

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Embers

Embers waiting 

I knew the embers 
Would in time be owned

History has chosen
And they are mine alone

Others have memories
But mine are deep

Missing what 
I choose...

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There was a time
when we waited eagerly
for the mailman -
when mail deliveries 
            had...

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     JFK, he was shot dead
     sixty years ago today

       ...

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Blind in the all-consuming mist without a trace of light 
Blind in the oven’s black smoke that makes all songs to Jesus seem hushed 
A...

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Archon of the west, whose spouse was the worldly Sophia
Who blindly abandoned his childhood lamb, to search for unseen light
Though the lamb could have showed...

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Fire-blown mounds of ash do swirl
About a charred pathetic doll
With one surviving dead man’s eye
Whose eyelid flickers back no more

Torn up like a tethered fox
Mail-shirt...

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I loved you once like sunrays kissing earth,
like drenching rain that brings with it new birth.
I loved you once like waves that reach for shore,
and...

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Don't Worry About Me
Don't worry about me,
I'm dead, you see.

You can pray to the saints,
and you can pray to Mary,
but I'm dead, you see.

You can...

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Drove for thirty minutes to subway station, took a train for forty minutes, got into another for only ten minutes, reached Queen's Park. People were...

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