Proem. n - a piece that was written originally with the intention of being prose, however lives more sensically as poetry and is therefore restructured as such.


To Dream To Write, To Write To Dream


She would sit at an oak desk
bleeding her life onto the resistant page
though never draining,
never losing spirit or breath
or heartbeat.
All of her ...

The Kiwi

Once ripe, fresh, sought after
to join his friends in the social splender
of a summer mixer
the aging fruit with stray and bristling whiskers
is passed over,
touched, but not enjoyed
squeezed, fondled perhaps in evaluation
yet never chosen
unbalanced discoloration threaten to permeate
leaving shades of chaotic patterns
to manipulate his pallor.

Bruised, the soft suppleness of his skin ...

Beauty is a Verb

Beauty is a verb
an ever changing
state, a tense,
captured in the still frame
of a passé canvas.
It does not enjoy
the simplicity of
being noun,
defined and stagnant,
caught in one moment—
caught in a million moments,
a noun will never waiver. ...

Middle-aged

She was middle-aged,  which
meant she stared strapped
to a lab stool with safety goggles off,
the chemistry set she’d grown
so attached to, played with
for 40 years, seethed and bubbled
in an experiment all of its own.
Its potion churned
a perfect balance of ...

“Savior”

She eventually became resigned to his routine,
the way he’d mostly keep his distance,
nostrils pinched retaliating against her obtrusive odor,
as if he was antagonized by her audacity
 in allowing her body’s toxins to putrefy and waft up to his stature,
and he’d stand just off the foot of her bed,
as if he thought she was a breeding ground
for some raging sheet-leaping leprosy,
able to infect tall ...