Internal chatter begins Awareness fades Eye lids spring open Light drenches retinas Vision shakes Focuses on everything Chatter becomes a train of thought Without a track Lead by a sadistic conductor Nature and the shower call simultaneously With promises of release and warmth The sheets are pulled back Like the banana that gets eaten later…

At the time he was one of my father’s closest friends. My namesake was tragically killed in a motorcycling accident during his twenties. Because of this man, motorcycles scare me and I have never ridden one. I share my middle name with my father And even though I did not like him I cannot refute…

The play of your life Continues unrehearsed Fate is the director But you have plans of our own You (The Protagonist) Are stranded With only scraps of plot The script is impulsively ad-libbed Except for a few self-rehearsed plot twists The supporting cast of characters Differ with relevancy and appearance over time You hope the…

Torn about and washed by turbine heaven, We are flipped snaps, Vignettes someone watches. Newspapers whip about our ankles, Trying to tear us. Consonants claw us; vowels violate us. The late hour cloud our response, blue to black. Just this once let’s not talk. And, May sparkling stars embrace us with tender years. These predictable…