and el paso

wraps its fingers around the branch

and shakes the sky for its stars

and they fall

all around the parked cars

and

radio noise

i hear all that right now

in this room

someplace out the window

Nonsmoking Dream

Nonsmoking Dream

water-skiing in a cosmic void

baby

now THAT

is a nonsmoking dream

also

hot librarians doing stuff in

knee-high socks

THAT

is none of my business

but

i figured i’d sell somebody

something

secret

why

not

Snowflakes, Curtains, and All

Snowflakes, Curtains, and All

with the same force as a snowflake hitting the windshield of

a parked cop car

on the abandoned frozen awful avenue

her lips crash into my eyes

quick as a flash of lightning

steeple-bound

and the house comes down

so to speak

and those people who are not there in that opera house of

pitchy penguins

all stand and r o a r endless roars tiger mouth roars lion

tears loud hunt like

and

i know i have to leave that city for good

whatever a goodness demands and the thing is

she loved it because i could spice it up still

i can most things

i talk around the flaws

but this place i lived

this crystal wall of what

it is not going to stop breaking long enough that i can reflect

that dim light

back onto its interiors and let it free so to speak

and i loved it so

how i loved it

but

with the same exactitude as a mountain lion falling into the

tar pit foolishly

and with branches inside to save him placed ironically

her shoulders ease and slump beside me

fell like delaminating beach furniture

white streak riddled cute yellow

we fall even harder

and the house comes down

so to speak

in one big gigantic thud

curtains and all

ha}

Now I Sing My Life

Now I Sing My Life

“now

i sing

my life

for you

i will not be leaving

going

anywhere anymore without you

i am in a place

now

in here

totally growing

whether it be me in one place

you at my heart quick

never slowing

like a thumping putter

like my own skin feels a sun or moon reflecting a sun

sunshining breezeblowing

or

beside you steady

steady or not

hand firmly in yours yours in mine

together

and

like here we come really

willing to forgo all that mindful heavy-heartedness

for a smile and a breath

because

well

you make me feel like smiling

me not knowing

and

you make me feel loved

like it was the first time

and

it truly is

truly mindblowing yes

you were the key that broke the seal

if my soul were locked

now

i sing

my life

for you

my love”

Go I

Go I

go i

go ahead into your arms

dizzying spun back

crystal soul

you

so swallowed by this moment

that is what i am

and will be

sleepless (always)

or