Riding the Spectrum
I have a sneaking suspicion
that I could be placed
somewhere on a spectrum.
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Category Poetry
Gossamer
You vulnerable
offering up surrender
in linear practical terms
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Practicing a Patience I Do Not Feel
From now on,
I’m not gonna give away nothing.
No more confessions,
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3-D
It was easy, then, when you were only 2-D,
to keep you safe in your container.
No tools required to maintain equilibrium —
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There Was A Moment
when you and I together created a universe
and entered it via the doorway of lips, nipples, genitals
and through the deepening gaze of
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Brutal Desire
Desire,
vulva, plump and pink,
throbbing beneath my clothes
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Ask Me
Join me here in the abyss – in the fecund depth of knowingness,
The deep blue-green of the great void
where words fall into and are lost forever.
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My God is Bigger
Choking on the soup of inauthenticity
Struggling with the sorry state of humanity
People guarded, people hiding, people grieving, people biting
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Me When She’s in Hospice
She can’t tolerate me now
I can feel it in the 4% of her remaining.
She is too tired and
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I Am All Woman
Being a woman
Means I am in the cycle of the Earth’s rhythms
I am Summer
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Ever Have Those Moments?
ever have those moments when silence is an interminable sentence
and even the stereo full blast can’t drown the shame of your own being?
when agitation curdles in your stomach and jitters outwards
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Frantic Atoms
One a.m. again
woken by the thousand thoughts in my head
creeping into dreams
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