How do you hold, Sphinx/ into your desert eyes/ Beholden I take a look/ at my pupil/ Blackness

Mere minnow laid low/ Pulled over to the peak/ Demeaning found core full/ Moon milk lit sky stood

We wanted to climb Mt. Ampersand but/ that day, the day we had set ourselves/ the goal not just of

Usually on a dining room chair,/ occasionally amid a field of grass,/ a few times in a moving car/ and one

i feel that aching moon/ pulling my recreation/ letting go of that sweet lament 

Would that I could wear this rural green,/ the July soybeans tone on the distant hills,/ the green needles

Soft sopping mizzle/ on dusky gloom of window pane// thunder creases somber covers on

Creamy-butter amber spills through/ the thick window blinds to drip inside/ in heavy beads, the colour

Electrons whirring buzzing/ orbiting around much larger/ protons and neutrons.// Positively charged protons

The world is more/ worldly than it seems./ Like a green evening// leaf darkening/ into a night so green

Mama is crying again.// I hate it when she cries/ Try so hard to tuck myself/ into a place where I don’t

See/ the lawn chairs? That is us sitting there./ waiting for a harvest moon/ to saunter its way across the sky.

A hot wind flays the cottonwood/ to a leaf-shadow school of trout/ swaying one way then the other

Wake up early,/ day still sleeps/ outside/ stars and moon/ whisper/ we waited/ so we wouldn’t/ miss you

She opens her bag/ she finds an old picture/ she did not know was there/ memories pop up/ like spring

tonight, i sat on the porch to watch, to listen./ to watch those walk by listen/ to unheard melodies in the

You asked which type of water/ I saw a lazy river/ lollygagging through foothills/ within a hike of its source

A small shadow inquires morning light/ onto the cushion of the wicker chair./ I trace it to the chair’s arm.

Green. Green, green, green./ Green mist and sunlight filtering through the trees,/ A gossamer spiderweb

Comets are icy bodies of gas and rock,/ conglomeration of pieces and personality. / They arc across the night sky