Birds flying in a whirlwind
Circle over my head
Ascending higher and higher
Boring a hole in the sky
To let down the
Blessings
Dead End
I can tell you it is
No fun living on a
Dead end one way
Street
Once I bought the
House I had to
Sell my car
Now I have to have
Everything delivered
Vacations are out
Of the question
My neighbors feel
The same way
Rondeau
Glowing and quivering creature
In the night gripping on a branch
This glowing mass, terrible animal
In the night gripping on a branch
Glowing and quivering creature
Glass Bridge
A glass bridge across
the back of a smoking snake
Invites, boys and girls, like a
deep fried radar antenna
toward a sudden realization
you have to play it by ear
Spirits or Fog?
Set far back off the street is the
Woodmere State Hospital for the Insane
A large metal fence surrounds the hospital
Giving it the look of a prison
On foggy nights when driving through the
Park one can swear they see detached bodies
Of fog crossing the road
Recently they found a small cemetery for
Patients who died while there at Woodmere
Their spirits appear to remind us not to
Forget about them
Solitude
Persons who are are aware of alone
And competent to speak
In the space of solitude
Make it possible for themselves
And others
To find the value of the human world
Life
I sit in my room on a
Rainy day
My ceiling leaks in one
Place and I have a bucket
On the floor underneath
To catch the drips
I think: each drip is like a
Second of my life disappearing
Down the drain
Museum
I found this museum on
A quiet street on the
Edge of town with an
Inconspicuous sign in
The front
It was the Museum of Broken Dreams
The creepy thing about
It was if a person entered
The museum that was the
Last anyone ever saw of
Them again
Touch
I stand on a path
Before me
Such that I need
For you to be on the
Same path dearly
Coincided we touch
While there is
Still time
Coup
Chickens are roosting in the lobby
Horses are making their way up
The marble staircase
Humans are hiding in their rooms
They are considering calling the
Humane Society swat team