Short Hitchhiked Poems

I hitchhiked up to Limbo
  to await that final toll

But lost my way when Siren’s called
  which led me to the shoals

My thumb went back inside my palm,
  their voices soft and low

No closer to those pearly gates
 —this darkened undertow

(Villanova Pennsylvania: February, 2018)...

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a supernatural force must have saved the reckless driver
the Ford she was maneuvering is scrunched in three ways
everyone who saw the auto said “the driver must be dead”
she is not dead
she has hitchhiked home to get the keys to her husband’s truck
she is driving to work in it
I know because this walking talking miracle who survived is me...

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Riding
a ship on stormy seas,
it feels like I’m flying;
Always on a trapeze 
I leap and keep laughing;

I’m loud,
and spontaneous too;
More than a little proud,
after all I’ve been through;
I walked on fire then bowed;

I’m spiked 
energy on the waves;
Their gravity hitchhiked
now it never behaves;
Roughly tumbled left jacked;

Coffee
after the longest night
tasting that moonlit sea;
Baby, just hold on tight,
I was made for crazy....

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