Why do you slip behind me
And stay silent
Why do you touch me with your quiet
And just watch
Institutionalized
Do you wish it weren’t so blue
Or even bluer still
Are you wondering just how vast
And just how deep the thrill
If you stripped off the leather
With the stigma of our skin
And charged, full speed, down that Great Bluff
Reversing that Great Sin
I Need You: A Haiku
I find art always
Throws itself down at my feet
And asks for my arms
Impending Dawn
You’re not of this world
Or at least not yet
Or maybe no longer
Or are soon to be again
It’d explain everything
Like the silence
Like the dark
Like the feeling of impending dawn
his girl
He calls Her “his girl”
He must love his Mom
Else where’d such affection been learn’d
He calls Her “his girl”
Time after time
And the light in his eyes, how it burns
He calls Her “his girl”
Let her cherish it so
‘Tis a rare heart that ’round these words turn
photo booth
I can’t make the plaid
Take its leave of my mind’s eye
Regardless, I’ll try
FEAR
Your name could tickle
So I bid you, say it
Out loud in darkest inkAt the right angle
My breath you’d strangle
Yet of you I smile and think
Since You Shine: A Haiku
Yes I will keep you
Where all you are will shine through
I will set you free
Who
Who wishes wind
Would whisper the way
When we wayward walk
Within the wilderness
Nothing Only Light
Carry on with sport of such great import
Continue conversing sublime inside joke
Convince all around your indifference to
The light and the breath who did just say goodbye
Covet the thought she knows not where she’ll roam
She knows not where she’ll roam
Curious thing, she’ll walk boldly with grace
Caress life’s left wrist, stare softly at truth
Conceived by the greatest and most perfect Will
The light and the breath it’s her honor to carry
Convicted her roaming will do just great good
She knows just that she’ll roam
