TORN LIGAMENT
CHOREPHILIA
FOR MARWAN

he takes
himself from
the dance
has not
seen how
i see
every
step

the table holds
appointments of
sugar
bread
fingers his
semen will
fertilize
nothing
in me

but i
take it

run it
on edges
of bills
magically
paid

while
rain lets
me lift
my stem
i'd rather
burst than
bloom
so...

it is
just
so

the diver
pitched into
nothing more
than a
tub

spiders make
a few
walls
home
but i want
to be a
prairie dog in
the apartment
poke from
floors greet my
neighbors

hold the
book warm
from his
hands
put it
back before
he comes
from the
toilet

it's when
a poem
closes in
the oven

you can
not see a
different view
from the
window if
it is a
painting
(but every
now and
then...)




"Poetry IS
independent
media!"
---Frank
Sherlock

just because i thought Military Assistance
said Military Assault doesn't mean i'm wrong

conflicting
desires anger
and safety

when we believe anyone but the rich
are the enemy the rich have won

engine's large ingestion of birds

never lower poems from flagpoles or
demand my calendar cries at dusk

day will
come you'll
need the
page you
ripped
away

my mother enjoys tax-free shoplifting

"every supermarket’s a soup kitchen
when you dodge security my son"

emptied of answers we can finally begin

mild case of love darting down
e n g o r g e d   t o
wild taste of love darting down

only reach for poets who reach back

another
beautiful
liar swings
a lantern
up a
head

endless mazes homes are some stories