I’ve Never

i’ve never tilled a garden i’ve never bent my back to strike an ax to wood i’ve never raised a child and yet i’ve certainly pretended that i’ve understood i’ve never built a home i’ve never even built a warming fire in the cold i’ve never tilled a garden i’ve never needed shelter when the […]

Interlock

interlock child don’t get it twisted we belong to each other we belong to each other we belong to each other sometimes i feel like a motherless child sometimes i feel like a rudderless child sometimes i feel like a nationless child but it’s my home and i know i’m not alone you got your […]

Incantation: Creation

once upon a time i lived in a mysterious mirror made entirely of imagination and in this mirror everything imagined manifested i imagined the mirror to be a vast castle whose corners and caverns i could never see and in truth, by this i was made afraid one day i realized (inevitably) that i was […]

Jenny

jenny brought the bottle home she said she’d like to celebrate her birthday pretending to forget the past passing out just like she did that last night when they took her keys away she’s a ghost without a name but everybody loves her just the same jenny took the painting down, the one with bob […]

January 20

everybody’s singin’, singin’ “yes we can” everybody’s waitin’ on the one great man everybody’s singin’, singin’ “yes we did” finally gave it to him at the lowest bid it takes a village people we can’t forget it now it takes a village people it ain’t about the dow you know a change is coming but […]