I never actually left the building.

 My physical health hasn't been the issue.  No carpal tunnel or anything worse.

Neither has incarceration been the issue. A spot on metaphor perhaps, (maybe I'll post more on that later),... but it's not the actual reason I've been so scarce around thes… Read full post »

This story takes place almost 20 years ago and miles away from the nearest people at the end of a long shellrock road that meanders down into a thick overhead covering of trees and comes to a stop beside a mangrove bordered little bay. My tale recalls a wondrously drunk… Read full post »

the sneaking was the best and the worst part

waking and leaving before light, already jonesing

the family safe and warm, sleeping still, not knowing

me outside in the driveway

next to the neighbors house, fumbling

to scrape together a hit, shaking

and sick to the stomach, then bette… Read full post »

Onyx

Silhouetted

Fronds, featherbrushed on

A calmly dying sunset sky

For you.  Read full post »

Quietly,...

Right now,

 I am thinking...

Of slowly...

Leaning in...

Face to face...

To finally

Taste at last...

That long held promise on your lips.

 Yes,...

I am...

Despite

Everything.

 Though thought

Be far

From action,… Read full post »

 "Blue" -  Joni Mitchell 

 When I first heard this album, in 1981, ten years after its release (and nineteen years after my own birth), "Blue" floored me.  In one listening, Joni, easily and obviously became the warmest and most honest person I had e… Read full post »

Withered strips of roadside turf obscenely wedged between

Eight asphalted lanes of commuting caffeinated crazies

And the cement sidewalks we reserve for the trudging proletariat,

They, these little withered strips,

And the mangy moth-eaten hedges that border

The fungal p… Read full post »

All this Time I thought

I had been shaping my verse.

Turns out it shapes me.  Read full post »

All of those things

You said about me,

My regrettably hurtful words and expressions  and deeds,

Are all true.

They happened just as you said they did.

How splendid of you to recall them with such clarity.

Yet equally true (context… Read full post »

Recently, I was involved in a Facebook dustup between myself and several other Christians regarding the “doctrinal soundness” of passing out clean needles to IV drug users.  The conversation started when a friend (who happens to be a Christian minister) initiall/… Read full post »

To be more me, with

Less effort to be what I ought

Or what might be more impressive.

Tempting, those are.  Always.

A waste though, in the end.

Sometimes, I figure that out 

Quickly.  Sometimes, not.

Disappointing, when I realize I gave in.… Read full post »

Each day’s momentum
Creates torque from accumulated circumstances
And rends each day beyond the scope
Of choice, reason, and hope.

What of the dreams of a clay footed boy?
Treading forward, first with care, then surely,
Nimble and quick,
Searching for meaning beyond the circus trick

A shove from each d… Read full post »

Isn't timing everything?

Like when you clutched me to you. Hard.

Did you know how much I needed that?

When your face buried in my neck

and I felt your hot sigh - then quickly wet and gone.

Tears?  No.

Were your lips… Read full post »

Ahhhh!

The relief of KNOWING.

Finally,…

What it is to be madly, foolishly, I-don't-care, deliciously head over heels in love.

I have loved before,

But always within the construct of meeting others expectations of who I should love,… Read full post »

Your love is indelible,

Ingrained veneration stamped upon my soul.

Your love is feral,

Feline maternal and fierce.

Your love is boundless,

An  amaranthine ocean upon my shore.

Your love is manna,

A daily miracle for this… Read full post »

Light You Are

Light you are and Light you have been

No matter the details of our where and when.

All that I recall of our fond youth

Is fonder yet, now that I know the truth.

Years we've missed, and dark… Read full post »

I am not going to add much.  Please listen, that would be enough.  

Thanks.

I flagrantly oppose our ongoing wars, but I totally support our troops.  No American casualties are justified in Iraq or Afghanistan.

How we as a nation have ever gotten so apathetic and numb to the idea of American soldiers dying is something I'll never understand.  I have be/… Read full post »

I do reside in a home,

As snug and cozy as can be,

Yet there comes those times when far afield I roam

To see what I can see.

Summer might beckon lazily

Or Spring may call with its youthful zest.… Read full post »

Just this morning

While listening to engine whines

And blurring past highway signs,

Sitting atop foam and springs and patterned beige upholstery,

Bouncing mildly as suspensor shocks and radial tires

Handled the road that needed repair,

For a wisp of a moment,

I became… Read full post »