Coward to speak out loud

Coward to speak out loud

Thoughts buried surfacing

Clouds forming in clear skies 

A weather worsening

Striving for Stoic strength 

Exact time, feet grounded

Altering my outlook 

Far from the unfounded

Such rubber and rubbish

Such rubber and rubbish

Graffiti on paper

Hollow like a ship’s hull

Or empty skyscraper 

Plasma replacements and

Type O blood transfusions 

Compared to eight lines of

Poorly drawn conclusions 

Exclamation points up ¡¡¡

Exclamation points up   ¡¡¡

The sunflower field stems

After the party and

After their yellow gems

The past and the future

Meeting beneath this sky

The present split second

Time curves containing pi

Here for you, gravity

Here for you, gravity

As we let balloons go

We’re treading wet cement

Where statues start to grow

With lost shoes and lost socks

Our toes must find the grass

Here for you, carry you

In time, this too, will pass

Tragedy averted

Tragedy averted 

Are we in a clearing

Out from pylon forests

And gripping wheel steering 

Are we catching our breath 

Circumstances stacking

In a moment of peace

Reduced to weed whacking 

Self-reflecting frankness

Self-reflecting frankness

Assessing my mistakes

Seeking approval and

Not letting off the breaks

Broken boundaries found

Then struggles to be free

Gaining independence

Building fences in me

Aging in the footnotes

Aging in the footnotes

Outside myself seeing

The long landscape sloping

And the season fleeing

Unable to get back

To a place I am from

Coordinates as small

As a small pitted plum

Flying monkey hang-up

Flying monkey hang-up

Not playing telephone

The walls are far too thin 

And you don't come alone

The Sybil Cyrano

Deadly oleander

Let the prostitute wait

And cease this foul pander

Guardrail accordions

Guardrail accordions

This derelict dreamer

On the edge of abyss

Private party screamer

Scared of the losses that

Feel like redwoods falling

Inside my emotions

Your emotions crawling

Where do the oceans meet

Where do the oceans meet

The North Star, north to us

True darkness, one blank sheet

The honesty in sus

Definitions lapsing

Our nameless and unknowns

Not liquid, gas, solid

Or blood, our breathing, bones

High above the city

High above the city

Beneath a cloud layer

A decimal of pi

Staked by this surveyor

Water towers anchored

Like hot air balloons stalled

Flat roofs, picnic blankets

If autumn hadn’t falled

Happiness does not ask

Happiness does not ask

It is not a question

It's not a what if, nor

An award or mention

The morning tablecloth

Solidification

History happening

Without the narration

Yesterday like bedsheets

Yesterday like bedsheets

Pulled high up to my chin

Dreams not premonitions 

But torn curtains and thin

Brighter tomorrows wink

But the cog grits its teeth

Yet another pillow

And a tooth underneath 

Crescendo collapsing

Crescendo collapsing

A volcanic funnel

The keystone falling or

A caving in tunnel

Wonderful now worry

Compassion and caring

Out on the limb hoping 

Buds will be declaring

Once in calligraphy

Once in calligraphy

Lettering now is print

No expression of self

Even speech without hint

Market and drug store lists

Your days notching and spent

The service counter World

Here at the dime and cent

Evident and punching

Evident and punching

The belts on our foreheads

Barefoot in brambles while

Exhausting all insteads

Gray areas steeping

Darkness giving up white

Surrendering options

The facts stacking in height

A returned letter or

A returned letter or

A fallen bird feather

Sentimental keepsakes

Keeping me a tether 

A crowded attic heart

Turned empty nest aerie

Letting go of moonlight

To find transparency