Taillight Poems

Anguish Isn't Always Visible


Late in the night a war fell, a war of midnight without a glow.
He always wore a painted face. 

His world became shrouded in endless dark all at once.

A police officer pulled him over for a broken...Read More

Driving on the highway.
Body tired.
Mind Exhausted.
Over rivers of cement.
Under rising jumbo jets, bellies exposed.

Suddenly a flash of sunlight
hits the taillight
of the car in front of me,
creating the image of a bright,
white, hot diamond.

It dazzles.

For one brief moment
the chemical reaction of
reflected...Read More

I want to take a drive tonight
through a maze of half-lit roads
paved in onyx shadows.
I want to follow starry streets
that roll in waves of cold concrete
beneath the opal moon.
I want to cruise across the city
through pockets of rose gold light
that...Read More