BETTER WAIT Electric radiators have come on to my waking Still in my night clothes Gus admires my matching Tolerates some belly snuggles but he is all claws Defining his boundaries and looking down at his empty breakfast dish that I leave empty this is a dead loss for a poem no matter How much
... read more.Blog
TODAY IS December 2, 2024 (from Eros & Thanatos) just begun
From Pieces of My Mind/My Body in Parts
TOES The big toe is called a toe not a fancy name like thumb which, I suppose is also a finger of which I have the requisite number ten of course, with a ring on my ring finger calling out my marital status in a fine textured tungsten my wife has two in different sizes
... read more.STARTLE
STARTLE Sideways, damn My eyes open Ceiling not overhead but under my bed My flight flips frightens No soul no soul no soul Danger danger danger We taught our children Not to come near the stovetop. Elements cook porridge Hot hot hot! Our cat reaches for my arm “Please please may I have More books
... read more.MY BODY IN PARTS
OPPOSABLE THUMBS I’m losing my grip. there was a boy in grade school who could bend his thumbs all the way back to the bottom of his wrist, we said he was double jointed. But always looked a little gross to me I prefer my bones to be where they need to be to make
... read more.HUNGRELL
Victor opening standard res.mp4 Please click on the link .
... read more.FREE WRITE IN PAGE
IMAGINE THIS BLANK PAGE IS YOURS AND YOURS ALONE. WRITE OR DON’T WRITE THIS BLANK PAGE IS YOURS. NO SUBMISSION, NO ENTRY FEES WRITING IS FREE, TO YOU AND TO ME. ~
... read more.LOOK at my new scar
My shoulder replacement is a success. I must be careful not to overuse it, lift something heavy and I’ll lose it. My surgeon said he would look at my right shoulder in January when he looks at the left for the final oohs and aaashhs. The cleaner is cleaning. I am waiting for: The
... read more.My head in a pail
1. I should get a pail to carry random thoughts Yes that’s more like it. If I had a pal I could carry my head in it but only when it is too heavy for my cervical spine. so most of the time. 2. I forbid any talk about Liza. I forbid any talk
... read more.CAST: of characters
EROS HOTEL Desk Clerk/Gatekeper 1. St. Augustine/with ghost of Euripides 2. Richard III 3. Menno Simons 4. Catherine the Great 5. Ludwig Van Beethoven 6. Queen Victoria 7. Sigmund Freud/with Richard Dehmel 8. Samuel Beckett
... read more.I WANT TO DRIVE MY CAR
DREAM This is still kind of loopy but I’ll put it in my dreams section on my website. Last night I dreamed of forgetting my car. I was driving and needed to park quickly. The parking lot changing from U of M to the downtown flat lots while I went to meetings. I overstayed my
... read more.