dirt and left in
before i let the
catch up to
Ebbs and Flows and Fits and Starts
so will you see what i told you for what it/is/for what it was/for the sake of/anyone else but/yourself/i can tell/you/i will give you some simple arithmetic/plus and/minus/i want you to know/this was never about/subtracting anything/away from our/lives/just
living through/something/oh yes/surviving the/times/i want you to/know this/is/ just/how it goes when/you commit yourself to/something larger/than/
yourself/you me them us/i could be/anything/i want to be/
everything/always/right
now/
drops in a/bucket/lynch pin/pulled//too much of a good thing and/too much/pepper/we’ll see the limits-won’t we/dressed in the stained smocks of/inaction/in essence we are/incapacitated/not every line is a verse/not every verse is a/hymn/not any hymn is a bop//dark times/we’ll get them/just yet/soon enough/once we are called/off of the couch/no longer resting on our/laurels/the hibernation ends/when we-when we won’t/what/will/we’ll know/soon enough/
the trinkets lost in translation
lost in the waves or to the masses
and i am sure to be disappointed
little treasures never hold their
value
the new car of
sentimental possessions
to be possessed
to be held
hold me now
i will be whatever your heart desires
in this moment
the little reprieve
the constant co-conspirator
or the ring that saves your ever-loving
soul
hold me then and hold me now
and i'll do my best
to be the same as that first
glowing moment where
we met one another
and anything was
somehow possible
penitent/my devotion has a first name/it’s (redacted)/my devotion ends in the wail of a car alarm/a five alarm fire/know the sense i’ve lost between the spaces/under a margin of error/i can’t believe it’s not/(what it is)what is it/what have you done and/do what you will/some friendly revision or something more sinister/they buried my hero not far from here/not crowley/though i hear he’s near too/i guess that brings down the property values/my hero is/my hero lives under a shanty town grave/nameless/i will say no name and mean his/forever and ever/amen/world with(out) end/until it’s done/
I’ve been doing a newish series of zines called infinitehaiku and this was a small cycle that didn’t fit but I enjoyed enough to share.
methodical call
dial tone bleating call sign
save this sinking ship
look over the waves
at sea, no shoreline in sight
at the tide’s mercy
preserver preserved
only room for one of us
you will see this through.
a day was a year/this song was a jam/i was happier then/that way/this time/was then was a a moment/this was that time/right now/right then/and i wished my life were in sepia/i was lost in the reverie of the color palette/keep me honest with/less than before/a year was a day and nothing was changing/i was the same as i am/i should have taken the bus//
another one from "shoutz."
later start to the morning than usual. i make these folders on my comp and write to a vibe or a concept for a while and "shoutz" is the latest one. i may post a few of these in the coming weeks.
calamity and cavernous thunder
spectral pyrotechnics
across a braindead sky
these poltergeist will prey
across the arc of lightning
keeping things honest
in howling made fresh as wounds
as bread baked daily. fade away
when you’re ready, perfect
crust. just warm enough.
home as a hell
loud enough for two
but it is solely for you.
good enough
through rattled bone and
wind and the whole thing
moves with purpose. just so
work has begun on a new chapbook and design/layout for #infinitehaiku II is imminent. I've also got something more substantial that's percolating and will be a bit of a departure from the usual style. Keeping the blade sharp or something...
wish the end times
were a bookmark
and the feel good,
happy fun times
were the ocean's currents.
pray to see the circle
and the square
resolve their differences
but the edges and the bends
make a beginning, some start,
impossible
hope becomes a broken
cruise liner, slow-rolling
over into an anticlimactic
boat-apocalypse. an end
played out by a squeaking
brass band's worst performance
in weeks. going to hell on a highway
lined with dead electric cars and
moments cast aside for something
slightly better. rusting out. corroded
all over. still with eyes. still watching.
lots of stuff in the works. you can find the new zine #infinitehaiku out and about or reach out if you're curious to learn more. Tapes on Fire is still available here. Bigger things coming sooner than later too. Get ready, it might be my best work yet.
draft's in
jury's out
we'll be a mechanized failure
in no time flat
weaponized defeat
in just a few short steps
and you can hit
that subscribe button
before long and watch
this undoing,
ungluing itself
from careful
applications
i am in
persuasion
mid-
resuscitation
resume the
reclamation
without indentation
consummate professional
in contemplation
after irritation and
simple math's
implications.
rappity rap
bim bam boom
scat forever
this is truth
you knew it then
you knew me now
in the know
in sequence
forever
forget it
the past will
clean up our
messes.
sorry for the interruption
not the favorite-
this/thy little misconception/them
nor us, like thee/home forever,
just like never/like always/
glow always/unwilling to
fade into the background/zoom out
"you are here"
always positioned/never lost/
these little spaces/made clear/made
visible/lone beacons in a starless sky/
we are now/we are never/we are forever
little known and eternal/delayed and on time/
right here, when needed.
you're never going out of style
almost and not quite/somewhere/this is now and then and never/even if you don’t notice/even when it crosses the path you are walking/we are never without it/one another/
one and all/the table full/napkins and salad forks/et cetera/ et al./no roll call/no voting “present”/
we will own this/put our names to it/become it/swell and burst with the facts/non fiction/one and all/
lend us this ear/yours/mine/the litany of others/i should have known/never in doubt/together, we will lay claim to what is ours/
in infinite wisdom,
this vision, reduces
the likelihood of
miscalculation. sets
free, sets fire to,
unlimited brush
with endless air.
in infinite wisdom,
forever extending,
forever, each ever
a new hill to roll right
on past. right onto the
next vista.
from up here,
i can see anything.
i will be everything.
whenever.