Flour water salt and yeast, primordial ingredients Measured, mixed and folded, scaffolding erected from culture Civilization risen, building blocks for hearth and home. * * * Burning oven fires, consuming a searing steam sublimates Blister rattan ringed skin, forming flour into crust and crumb Broken bread, saturates the air, binding we offer and share. ∞…
the motorist
I’m frequently awakened from tranquility like a lunar lander disturbing eons of silt by the sound of a murderous horn sticking the stillness like a slit throat erupts a desperate moan caught there the motorist is a man, made foul like everything possessed, just ours a moon, an animal, and empty road drive your soul…
stirring of the sky
my eye was born in the stirring of the sky a painted ingot fired with the dawn burning at the dam’s early light a dividing wall eroded and a river ran from the zenith a molten composition cast upon the cotton ball sky cooling it cracked in a crinkling with it my arrogance that once…
moonlight
I lay there — changing beneath the thin cotton sheets caught in the threads of the silver light pinpoints revealing each letter upon the pages I devoured in the thinness of the night. I lay there absorbed in the alphabet constant an ephemeral Enigma predicting into what I would with each turn metamorphosize wish I…
No Regrets
no regrets, cast away recall cast away away cast away all painted memories in aerosol drip my spell upon a wall Vive la France and Charles De Gaulle Pour the streets with alcohol Being bad – meh – that’s my downfall Screw the good, life’s protocol Smoke a cigarette, how banal Rather, maybe, sex in…
Earthly Habits
my Father always toiled at the earth above the rocks he kept our yard a solitude of quiet and play a kinder garten circled by the elm hedge and shaded by the twin aspen it was always home and always work. my Father always toiled at our garden on the verge of my perception I…
My Life is a Valley
a valley is my life a natural paradise I was born of a valley a winding lake monster filled with blossom and pollen fragrance captured, hilled in hands I am wet with wandering rivers deepen my back enter me and I deliver passage running between the mountains I am a yoga pose interrupting the plain…
Gone to the Birds
Gone to the Birds World Health Organization reports #vaccinations administered by air travel break our distance the answer contradicts wet market obfuscation origin stories rapid testing rising numbers birds gather in public unmasked fed prescriptions sourdough pieces intensive care moistly distributed to the populations all variants flock together casting caution to the ventilation open borders…
Smelted Nymph
molten heat an ion supercharged with passion lust migrating a wunderlust pulling at magnetic blood hardened split between worlds and states sex in a stream devourers sirens succubus running flowing openings ones and O’s plugins switching singing of the spring you fuse electrify jealous desire move easy call me illuminate a wire wet water sex…
Letter to Giovanna
Dear Giovanna La Cucina Siciliana di Gangivecchio I have fed and dined upon your words satiated my own hunger for travel and culinary knowledge. Your family the treasures you have shared are now my treasures stringing families together keeping me nourished my mind dressed and many years marinated and seasoned. I’ve cooked my way through…