I used to be the shadow on a bowling ballZoned in on any pin standing tallThe sight of humans well arrangedLeft my mind and soul estranged I much preferred the companyOf litter runt and orphaned beeWe knew then as they do nowThe game is rigged if you don’t ask how Two lines were formed a … Continue reading Evening Drivel Rover Red

I was born in BabylonTime stamped three a.m.Maternity was packed and jackedWith what we knew as men The fog was thick in BabylonThe day I came of ageIt broke three hearts when I climbed the stairsAs the ink dried on the page I’ve booked a trip to BabylonTo shush up chatty tombsIf I’m not back … Continue reading Lawrence Immemorial (unfinished)

I heard the tuned and hammered stringStrike out a note that I could singIn that moment I would bringA voice among the choir I harmonize in David’s chord!A thought my head could not affordThe Devil, friends, does not get boredWaiting by the fire Soon I sang another strainOf voices only in my brainIf I’ve a … Continue reading Tuned Out It Wasn’t Me

Another friend called With little time left After the Fall Every thought is a theft Seeded on Sunday A knock at the door Fangs in a nightmare Neck in a claw Who comes to help? Rapists as Saints Hand on the Holy Book Dripping white paint Facing the Altar Facing the Cross Some yet won’t … Continue reading Four Stanzas In A Minute Of Panic

Will it keep my mother in my mind Or hold me down until the shadows pass? This thing I do in slowly pulsing light That finds the center of black * If in this room I had the say I’d cut it surgically around Place it glistening aloud On my wobbly lusterless tray (Preserving just … Continue reading The Mood This Morning

Sad and blue Sad and blue Pick up pen Red will do News is news It’s never True It’s chewed up bird Spit for you They don’t love you Never did Of course you kept Your motive hid Through a window In the glass Who we are Is how we pass Sad and blue Sad … Continue reading Note To Self

Whimsy came and whimsy wentFor Lent * Save me save me down the holeThe Hour pressesSomeone spottedA kiting SoulAgainst the brimming darkness * Still and be stillMind I loveWhile we are ableStill to speak The light bulbblows out at the soundOf striking matchAnd hissing leak

On its face at first blush It’s just crazy enough If it were a lark it would fly To be howling within Round a ravenous sin While the face is a whitewashed lie * On its face at first blush It's not something you touch It’s the thing that you taste with your eye It’s … Continue reading An Explanation?

* I’m dead, but needn’t say so so sleight the hand sleight of hand sleight of His most grievous hand eyes that meet mine never know * Pry the purpose out Is that a Clock? No, that’s a Cross. Yes, that’s a Clock. Sweet wave of Christ wash over me, these sad sack bones, this … Continue reading That Mood Again

1 Should I peek around the corner? Does that convey? Ratchet the neck bones up to a hole in the brimming dark and with what I have for eyes now blistered over summon in pantomime the blinding awe? 2 How can I pitch you this idea? This terra infirma of the Solid Rock The there … Continue reading Two More In A Mood

1 So long, goodbye Adios Final call For the Final Coast I'm expected Rest assured What’s in doubt Is the Temperature A room is ready Built by me In alarming Specificity Who loves me In aggregate? On balance, I’m unconfident 2 A shadow fell When I was young And as I grew It grew a … Continue reading Two Poems In A Mood

Woke up feeling lost at sea Dreamt i saw Him walking ‘cross a cup of tea Woke up a feeling in a missing limb Father Mother side by side What’s between but a tide That carries back and forth that missing limb Brother Rob and Brother Ed Locked our shadow in the family shed But … Continue reading Song About The Family Sin