THE ARC OF REJECTION

Glaring

Sparkling

Magnetic

Allure

Grumpy

Upset

& hungry

I take you

Every way

I take you

Every day

The electric

Shock

The toxic

Waves

I feel

Every time

You turn away

Electric fence

Please

Keep me away

Something about

Being an addict

Don’t touch the stove

Its hot

Spending a life line

On burns

A life time

Churn

Of starving

Ferns

Stretching to the light

Photosynthesis

Doesn’t work

In the dark

Our love

Is a shark

& I wait

For you to bite

Humanize the day

Consume me

While I pay

Infuse me

With sacred

Spirits

I pray

Twenty years

In the dark

Rolling

Smoldered

Now I yearn

For light

The world turns

On my shoulders

Telling you tonight

How much I miss

Romance

Dancing

Passion

Holding something

Close to the chest

Some heart

Stricken goals

The way to the heart

Through my coals

My eyes

My head

Trace me

Feed me

Do something

That no one else

Can do

Something

That no one else

But you

The pipe

The pain

My fantasy

You may never change

The way back

I once stumbled upon

That place in your

Arms

Your legs

Waiving like

The freedom

Of the flag

That used to waive

So freely

In the car with my father

The final days

Of his life

Knowing that memory

Would last forever

Wish I had another

Man to call

& ask

To see

To have another

Adult

To tell me

Walk away

Run free

Burning hands

Sticking

Electric wire

Fascinated

The spark

The arc

Of rejection

Must be some kind

Of sick joke

My heart

A broken spoke

All the lovers

I hurt in the past

Riding away

On rusted bicycles

Wishing I could

Just bury my self

In your ass

Sleep in the dark

Till Sunday

Your thighs

Eyes

In the elevator

The rain

I would take any angry

Day away

My dame

But you just

See the shame

You just electrify

& I want

To touch

& smell  

This burning hair

For you are

The stove

I am the hand

And I just can’t stop

Burning this way

I can’t find

The way back

That place

I stumbled upon

Closed arms

Coveted thighs

Just a memory

Your eyes

Now just the fence

Blue

Electric

Flashes

Stuck in my head

Again

With my lies

As my hand traces

Over the map

Dulled thumbs

Nibbled nails

Gentle & frail

How did I get

So much older

To find myself alone

I should have left

Bread-crumbs

Or some secret cloak

To sneak me through

Your guarded alarms

Map faded

Dusty black

Because

I just can’t seem to find

The way back

Into your arms

THE HITCH OR THE HONDA

Sitting

Theater

Minds

Condominium

Learning

Oblivion

Passing

Bars

Watching

Movies

Speeding

Cars

Somehow

You

On my mind

Invisible

Hat

Wondering

Cat

Where

Your long

Hair waves

Lonely
Freckle
Miniature

Ears

Giant

Mouth

Tiny
Tears

Listening

At home

Watching

Movies

Whirled

By the twenties

Curled

On your

Tiny screen

Watching them die

Wishing

For a butterfly

To spin

Me

& sleep

My cocoon

Of red

Tucked

Away

Watching

Sheep

Wanting

The noose

Walking the deck

At night

Your voice

Wrapping

My neck

Lost

At the counter

Yesterday

When I had

To buy a new tie

Knowing

That mine

Probably

Won’t make it

Back home

It’s where

I want to be

Somewhere

Tucked away

Your swoon

Waiting

For

Our

Time

Spring

Hissing

Traffic

Through

The blinds

We bloom

In my mind

Seeing

Feeling

I was

There

In that grace

Barren

Dry

Knee high

In your space

Next to you

In that place

Where my

Black tie

Gently

Rest

Still 

HYPNOTIZED

Beachside slave

Morning

Seashell ways

Spinning

The snail shell

Of life

Symmetry

Octagons

& vortex

Complexity

Of life

Distilled

When we simmer

Over the stove

Laying back

W our backs

To the past

Black, our faces

Into California fields

This electric fence

Keeps you from me

Baby girl

In my arms

Found washed up

On shocking shores

Blistered lips

Boarded up stores

Bleached sun

Swimsuit eagle

Covered hips

Sniffing

Beagles

Through the woods

We wandered

Over the hills

Far, far away

Choose & circle one

My dear in life

My tear-pretended wife

My sly deer blinded headlights

You will

Lose nothing

All gain-

Twisted panties

Churning pain

Unusual girl

Knee high boots

Dying fast

Stop trying

To last

Don’t hold back

One of us

Must let go

One of us

Just let

The cold snow

Fall, over

Our windshield

For you

The comfort

Of my winter

Staring through

The sheer nylon

Your tights

I remember

You are the knife

In my heart

Demand

Someone

As free as

I live

As to be

As did

When the summer

Of youth

Kissed young

My face

So wet

The older girls

Always took

My hand

Made bets

The days of sand

Taught

To lay

To kiss

Stay longer

And learn

Now the older

Man

I burn

Peppered hair

In the day

Smoldered

Into dawn

Baby, crows feet

Eyes touch

Hands meet

& you’re gone

Racing over

Towns

Delicate lace

Gowns

& pretty high

Heels keep you

High

Off the ground

Somewhere

I still reach

Somewhere

I still stay

Laying around

All day

Dreaming

Of a woman

Eye lined

Scouring

Dirt roads

Kicking heaves

To the side

Stuck in the

Gutter of love

Curled hair

Eyes heavy

Arms like doves

Smoke stacked lips

Hungry

As slaves on ships

& grey, lonely, scavenging

Crazed

Wolves

Waving

A fire hand

Wild

As the man

I once saw in the mirror

Years ago

Driving away

Just ride-

Into fire

Out from rain

I lick your

Transparent pain

Around the sun

As we walk down

These isles

Pretending

That this means nothing

Did you pray?

Cause I did

Every time you stayed

Why so scared

Move forward

The past is just that

Past / participle

Sedimentary

Rock / hard / sickled

Rust & bone

I’ll take flesh over stone

Every day

So, I ask again

Do you pray?

Cause I do

Every time you stay

The fox and the hound

Dear box: I’m bound

I see you through

Even where you don’t

I understand

You’re whole