Chapters (25)
- Dedication
- Violet Bent Backwards Over the Grass
- Bare feet on linoleum
- What happened when I left you
- The Land of 1000 fires
- Never to Heaven
- Never to Heaven
- Tessa DiPietro
- Past the bushes Cypress thriving
- SportCruiser
- Quiet Waiter- Blue forever
- Quiet Waiter Blue Forever
- In the hills of Benedict Canyon
- happy
- Sugarfish
- ringtone
- In the flats of Melrose
- Thanks to the Locals
- Paradise is Very Fragile
- Salamander
- 18. Haikus
- Haikus
- notes for a poet
- A Note on Images
- About the Author
Quiet Waiter- Blue forever
You move like water sweet baby sweet waiter
making the night smile to no one you xcater
quiet wood worker from midnight till later
my lover my laughter my armor my maker
The way that I feel with you is something like aching
inside my stomach the cosmos are baking
A universe hung like a mobile
the alignment of these planets unique
In me the earth moves around the sun
no land all sea
water world
sun chaser
tropic of cancer
southern equator
i’m the crying crustacean
sunbathing on paper
moon.
Let’s rewrite the beginning of this primordial ooze
shall we my love?
Am i being brazen for saying this year makes me feel
like we could’ve wrote it better
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Quiet Waiter Blue Forever
You move like water sweet baby sweet waiter
making the night smile to no one you cater
silent woodworker from midnight till later
my lover my laughter my armor my maker
The way that i feel with you is something like aching
inside of my stomach the cosmos are baking
a universe hung like a mobile
the alignment of these planets unique
in me the earth moves around the sun
no land all sea
water world
sun chaser
tropic of cancer
southern equator
i’m the crying crustacean
sunbathing on paper
moon.
Let’s rewrite the beginning of this primordial ooze
shall we my love
Am i being brazen for saying this year makes me feel
like we could’ve written it better
than him?
But who am i
just a girl in love dreaming on paper
rearranging the salt for the pepper
in love with you
my quiet waiter
Summer
blue
Forever
call me when you’re done with work
i’ll pick you up later
the darker the better
five after midnight
the darker the better