Selected Poems


10-26-2011
why stand still when you can run?
i'm stolen, buried
a clockdigger
a manifestation of whatever else
soothes you
repeats itself
day in and day out
i got shattered
what did you embrace?
i didn't, i prayed”
then who took and who gave?

i said i can't stand to make war with myself
i wandered alone and tore down structures
that when writhing at my feet, bleeding
released unto me my inheritance

i deepened the gash so as to further embed
i crested the wave and my mind fell apart
like shotguns break

won't you stay and become what your soul
longs for you to be?

i grabbed my own neck and hurled
my perspective
to dust
i smiled
you caught on
and there was never anything more beautiful moving
save for time itself

the rug slipped out from under my feet and
in that cavern i wrote

i'm not demanding anything
i'm telling you how wonderful it is to be scared