My heart is a phoenix with a lifespan of days.
Consumed by your midnight poetry,
It awakens again in a wide yellow bed
Near gentle pink curves:
A sleeping world softly rising and falling on the crests of dawn.
Phoenix
Secret Message For Bob
another feeble dream
clawing at breakfast table
resplendent night song now
offensive in sane morning
swaths of Thursday
the wistful day
incubating more fevers to
come for me at dusk
Sunset
Have you ever just walked outside,
your head preoccupied with some bullshit,
and get punched in the gut by a sunset?
You think you’ve seen them all
but suddenly you’re standing there, weeping,
remembering that before you woke up this morning
you had been human.
It breaks your heart to see something so beautiful.
It offends the machine that has been slowly encasing your body.
Your heart explodes into your throat
because the sunset is dying.
You will never know it again.
The moment slips and you die with it.
Cold Princess
Cold Princess -
Rescued one thousand times
Presented with one thousand tongues of fire
One thousand dreams burned for your incense
One thousand dragon’s eggs returned at your whim
And yet you did not melt
I will not learn to be your cold fire,
Keeping a thousand year vigil
No, I will meander a path celestial
And take a star as my lover
The whisper of our fingertips will ignite the oceans
For the span of a single breath
And then we will fall as Lucifer
Consumed, a rain of ashes and stardust
Kings will heap pity on us
The Cold Princess will not look at us
The tide will steal our names
And only the sorrow-laden poets will remember us
But oh, we will burn!
Homework Assignment
Here is your homework assignment. You don’t need to do it all at once. Perhaps just read the questions and think about them and discuss them at a later date. Continue reading →
Award-Winning Author
I visit Dave in Seattle with Ryan and Laura.
I win the Alibi’s Short Short Fiction contest with the story “The Numbers Game.”
The Numbers Game
Maybe if you rub those tickets together, you’ll excite the numbers. But listen to me, friend, you don’t ever want to let them rub off on you. Don’t even look at them too much or you might get Marked. You think you’re gambling now, but you don’t know the half of it. Before the numbers catch up with you, I better tell you about Dave. Continue reading →
Starting Over
I meet Her.
I enter the poetry scene at a slam at R.B. Winning Coffee Co.
Encounter Don McIver, Bob Reeves and Amy Mullin, but they don’t know who I am yet.
Evolution
I just got back from a test screening of Evolution. The invite pretty much fell into my lap. I had no plans, so I went. All I knew about the movie was that Duchovny was in it. I didn’t even know it was a comedy. So I entered the theater with zero expectations. Ivan Reitman introduced the film as a work in progress, etc. He expressed concern about the ending, that perhaps it was too confusing. Then the lights dimmed and we were rolling. Continue reading →
It’s over
Cathy leaves me.
I buy an SUV, a black 1998 Isuzu Rodeo.
I move to an apartment (3320 Wyoming NE, Apt 4307, 87111) and begin dealing with the divorce.