Verdict

...If that’s what it will take. For the jury to see that I can’t judge myself by the same standards of music, of beauty or even luck...

Brush Stroke

...And I was made to feel like a nuisance when I came over during the proceedings. And I didn’t get to see the watercolour results...

Tricks

...And somehow the word “Destroyed entered my mind in 3D...

Tricks

...And somehow the word “Destroyed entered my mind in 3D...

Scrub

...Silverware clutters under the soap suds. Deep inside my mind. Please. Not one more bent dinner fork...

Stitches

..And the truth is I’ve had an accident. I paid my life’s fortune to take that medicine man's ride...

Every Issue

...People say it’s all I talk about now. I recite the article aloud. I don’t need to run my eyes over the type face...

Wing

...Then there is silence. And I forget to check to see if they got out into the sky at the chimney’s top. Or whether they are dead on the grate...

Tred

...Right now the wind is whispering in my ear. Telling me that highway is the way I have to go...

Temp Work

...Staring at our temporary reflections. Being cast back down at us. Our noses and cheeks reflecting in the ripples of a slowly moving but ever so giant stream...

Dealer

...If noone came to buy the car of the week then we would eat just a little less boiled potatoes...

Not So Forbidden

...Went to the washroom. Looked in the mirror. Washed the diner taste out off my mouth. Only to come back to the table. And find the only shiny dime I’ve ever known is stolen...

Horn

...It took you coming out of the desert. Another lost soul showing me the shine of their soul under their dusty skin...

Reform

...Dragged in on winter boots and left there like memories of kissing you in the door...

Motives

...To stop feeling alone for one blazing instant. Just a crutch under my sweating armpit...

Tinny Sounding Tune

...And walking down the street with your arms around me. And coming face to face with people who hold me when I cry over you...

Bricked Up Window

...I havn't slept more than a few hours since the possibility of gettin' what what I want first came into my consciousness. Like an long gone lover reaching out to me in a dream. And me not being able to look away...

Precious

...Their arches no longer make giant dounut holes. Framing the sky between their knees and the red beach sand...

Chimes

...Just knowing. I said, "She is here." It wasn't cheesy like a widgy board at a junior high party. It was wonderful...

Morning's Truth

...And after I've sighed, When will you be back?" about a hundred times I turn my mind to other subjects. Turn it like a Pontiac doing handbrake turns...

Thrown

...And now we come to it. Decending the stairs I refused to tread down last summer...

Dance

...That's when it was cooler and you could go outside. Drive to the coast with your mother at the wheel...

Farm

...It's all what you focus on. The food in your belly or the chicken between your teeth. The view of the ocean we can almost see from here...

Still Searchin'

...Let a little gold dust fall from their cheeks when they open the door for me and start to smile...

Pictures

...More than the Dali Lama's love. At 50 % off...

Swing

...Oh set me free! Get me a small mirror. Or the face of a watch. So I can hold it up to the sky...

The Many and The Few

Sometimes it is best to remember some people would do almost anything to have these kinds of problems.

Legacy

...The legacy of your intimate and my stranger lives on in both of us...

Your Size

Oh miracle of thread, spool and supply .

Annonymous Again

...The world of stars is not for the mortals that yearn, grind and plead...