Fully Completely

Bring me back in shackles,hang me long out in the sun,exonerate me, forget about meI recommend measures for ending it.Lover, she simply slammed the door.She said, "you’re gonna miss me."Wait and you’ll see." fully, completelyI ponder the endlessness of the stars,ignoring said same of my father.Either it’ll move meor it’ll move right through me;fully, completely


Daredevil

I can’t imagine how you feel and this is how you feelyou say your name like you’re no longer convincedbut now they’re strapping you in and closing the lidand they’re dropping you in what’s done you didThe bell is picking up speed there’s water leaking inthat ol’ equilibrium just starts to spin and spinDo you […]


At The Hundredth Meridian

Me debunk an American myth?And take my life in my hands?Where the great plains begin,at the hundredth meridian.At the hundredth meridian,where the great plains begin Driving down a corduroy road,weeds standing shoulder highFerris wheel is rusting off in the distanceAt the hundredth meridian where the great plains begin Left alone to get gigantic;hard, huge and […]


Nautical Disaster

I had this dream where I relished the fray and the screaming filled my head all day.It was as though I had been spit here,settled in,into the pocket of a lighthouse on some rocky socket,off the coast of France, dear. One afternoon,four thousand men died in the water here and five hundred more were thrashing […]


Bobcaygeon

I left your house this morning about a quarter after nine Coulda been the Willie Nelson, coulda been the wine When I left your house this morning It was a little after nine It was in Bobcaygeon I saw the constellations Reveal themselves one star at a time Drove back to town this morning with […]


Springtime In Vienna

Instructions from the manualcould not have been much more plainthe blues are still requiredthe blues are still required againpast territorial piss-postspast whispers in the closetspast screamin’ from the rooftopswe live to survive our paradoxes Men here of the secretthey pass in upholstered silencethey only exist in crisisthey only exist in silencepast territorial piss-postspast whispers in […]


Another Midnight

he was a coal miner in the springblinded with its dusty resolutionsbroke his back for higher contributionsnow he’d take anythingwell she was 1970burning like a cigarette long seasonheir to her family’s old treasonsshe makes love hard like an enemyoh ma he’s dying and the river don’t sleepwhen the water runs coldand the calendar burnsas the […]


Highway Girl

I’m going down to see my highway girlshe just back from around the worldI’m gonna get me a gun, I’m gonna stand on guardin a little white booth in her front yard throwing rocks at her window what could she doif I throw enough rocks one might break throughwell she looked out her window when […]