Will we try and strive
Will the wind bend backwards
To tell you of the point
What you know
As plain and keen
As the nose on your face
To love this life
Remain Nameless
Will you let it go
‘Though I grasp steadfast
Will you take your gut to task
Grit your teeth
Tell yourself, Enough! I’ve won!
Will you entertain my fear
Smell my blood
Hear my defeat loud and clear?
Will you let me lose
Less than I deserve
Beyond: A Haiku
Cinnamon billows
Morning’s first roar, for I hope
To awaken him
Plucked: A Haiku
Mocking me he is
Red…masked…song sweet as Friday
Ev’ry last feather
You Are Here
Stuck
You’ll stay as is
I’ll stay in a different way
Same as the day I promised I’d stay
You stay staying
Saying you’re staying
But Elsewhere, Actually
Pretending
Stuck
Fair Weather, Friend
Oh!
I shall exhale
Pray for pouring rain as my forum
For there I will make such weeping
And I won’t want them to see
Yes!
There’ll be no taste of salt
But mere ozone and clarity
Fresh, cold clarity
And latitude
In The End: A Haiku
And if I cannot
What then will I become…what?
Whisper, “let me go.”
Assumption: A Haiku
Numb I have become
From the needle you’re holding
And you back away
Of Completion
Three
Three plates and three cups
Three bowls and three spoons
Three scooters and three stories
Three hearts and some bruises
Three
Out of Love
How the night knew to sing my suspicions
I suspect I know
From below, it was asked
From above, it was allowed
Relevant, He knows, out of love
While on the witness stand I writhed
Wishing mercy meted out
The prosecution testified
Every truth that I’d denied
Each and every day, out of love
Played at the speed of metal melting
Your aside and afterthought
Your wailing wall
Your laugh out loud was I
And I…out of luck, out of love
I saw evidence
You wanted more
You were displeased
And were furthermore
Undeniably, out of love
With every aching possible
I awoke
I thanked the judge and jury
Arose and walked out free
Out of love
Labyrinth, Alice’s Garden;
Milwaukee, Wisconsin
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