1 New Poem

Colossus of Spring

I took hope in baskets,
came across river brook bends
that felt around ice flows
for a hint of ground,
cloaked as they were in
pale shroud.

I walk it up past train
track marks and police tape,
caution yellow the wounds we
took as given until they
burst out in red blood.

I mix it with sugar,
make honey water blossom
for afternoon tea between
the two of us shared.

I give it to the sky,
set it on windowsills
to drift in coughing breeze.

I watch its bundle spin sticks
across horizons.

I return to rooming time.

1 New Poem

False Negatives

The swipe-swabs go over
back-of-hand skin again,
alcohol tang, alkaline light,
swimming through the bow-break
long stretch of sunny skies
I sometimes spy through

Windowpanes and cutting blinds,
days that pass as punch-up

puppets, characters unreal.

I sat in bright rooms,
clean places with clipboards,
pens tapping off ID
laminate while I waited for words
to come in ways that didn’t

Echo off me, blank and borne-out,
when I’d know victory at last,

Standing up to cross-hued sunshine
in the flipped over tape decks

What mom said was best
about me when I was quiet:

The way I looked up at the
beeper machines and felt peace
with their starring light,

As we were one, in lonesome
formality.

Poetry Reading - A Moment of Your Time Podcast

I recently read one of my poems on the A Moment of Your Time Podcast at their invitation.

Check it out at the link here