Metaphysical Draft
Hack through the thickets, young ones,Slog through the marshesYoung ones, tear the limbs to make shelter for the night.You are the maps for this place,So we must do it,We must chart it.Braced against...
View ArticleGlory Speeches
About a year ago I started to develop a series of short speeches meant to be delivered during pivotal moments. Speeches meant to inspire a people or meant to be a call to arms. This first one is...
View ArticleTruth like Beauty
Truth like Beauty and she waits out there,Clutching a gray turnstile armAnd holding her breath.Woven through the silk like some cool, calm thingThat spoons the tissue from beneath my skinTo show it to...
View ArticleJeff Mangum singing
This is such a great video of Neutral Milk Hotel's Jeff Mangum singing In the Aeroplane Over the Sea. There is something about him singing the trumpet part himself that gets me. And the foil stars...
View ArticleSpying
Most tragic of days are those in which boys witness their fathers become mere men.I watched my father weep once,After he flicked his cigarette over the neighbor’s fenceAnd cursed at our dog.His head...
View ArticleAnother Glory Speech
Here is another speech I began developing about a year ago as part of a larger work. Again, it's more fun if you act it out and read it aloud. Think of it as singing in the shower.To be given upon...
View ArticleA Recently Found Oldie
I found this little gem hiding in a stack of old papers. This scrawled, virtually unpunctuated, uncapitalized, recklessly short piece has to be over ten years old. I have no memory of writing it and...
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Humming and quadraphonic,My heart sleeps in its pine box.I long to be as vast as a thought,Trip stick dancing on a steel balloonLike a lightning shock trapped in a sardine can.I stretch my soul like a...
View ArticleLet's kill their spirit before it can fully develop...
Ever wanted to play...like a boss?Really? Peter Pan would be sooo pissed. This can only mean one thing:I didn't know there was a toy department in hell.
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The world is flat.The world is flat.The world is flat.The world is flat.The world is flat and square like a tabletop.Mountains are made of stone,And the sky is made of air,And the ocean is made of...
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I would carry you in my jaws.I would lick you clean and protect you from the elements.I would teach you to hunt and to make shelter.But those things are not for me to teach,So I must huddle in the...
View ArticleBackward Memory
Maybe it’s the booze,Maybe it’s the nostalgia,But my heart swells with love for this place,Its corners and dark places, Its plain green lawn plots.I feel willow tendrils against my armsAnd breathe the...
View ArticleDrake's Vision
When Francis Drake stared into the rigid crisp of a northern morn,Ice in his beard and dreams,He steeled himself for frost and grayAnd ice like crystal glass.When Ponce de Leon sought the eternal,His...
View ArticleAt the Zoo
Watching a domesticated lion laze in the gray of an autumn afternoon, I cannot restrain myself,So I roarLoudly,Without restraint,With the wildest strings of my heart.As I walk the path of...
View ArticleScarecrow
If I could, I would crush the world in my palms like a snowball.I would wring its neck until my fingers squished through the skin,Tendon and muscle all soft and stringy.I would stand atop the highest...
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Trees and trees and trees and trees.I see them huddled into nothing.My hand bleeds from a dull knife I usedTo make a hovel,But I just pack the gash with leaves and wince.Trees and trees and trees and...
View ArticleFantastic
Life in a claymation world,What a world it would be…Boiling clothes and boiling hair,Dynamic idleness,Lest we be perceived as stills.Such broiling in my guts,Like dogs without names who throng,Like...
View ArticleEclipse
Watching a solar eclipse once in grammar school,Holding a pinholed paper over my shoulderTo catch to the celestial phenomenon,I wondered whyI couldn’t watch it with my eyes.I knew the mechanics of...
View ArticleBeautiful Folly
It feels like a rock and roll kind of night,A pabst and schnapps kind of bad decision,A scorched mouth and hoarse throat yowl night,When judgment and consequence melt like butterOn Georgia ashphalt.A...
View ArticleCoastal Vantage Point
The trees of Neverland toppleAnd my s.o.s. bottle floats tragically toward the rocks.Hook’s hook has cut my throatAnd turned my voice to gurgles.But Michael and John stand rigid by my side,And John...
View ArticleLeviathan
In moonless waters a new shadow forms,Smoldering blackness,Festering, ashen, nightmare blacknessThat whispers to the spaces between.The crow’s nest creaks, and I strain my stare,Salt in the cracks of...
View ArticleFirst and Last
The stones are mossy here, and the ground is soft.The air is thick and cool, and it fills up the corners.Fish with skin like the end times pucker near the surface,Glaring and staring, puckering and...
View ArticleA fragment of a larger thing, the rest of which is lost...
I found this scrap of paper in a box long lost, then found. Curiously curious, this.Frost has bitten the tulipsAnd breath swirls like smoke.The leaves no longer sing in the morningAnd water hardens.The...
View ArticleI am a wolf
I am a wolf.I am a wild thing.The deepest throes of the wreckage rebuke my wildnessAnd wish it ill.But I will growl and bay.I will bare my fangs.I will attack to kill,And we will survive because of...
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