My Life So Far

I read their faces looking for them there but it is not the time to look quickly after the explosion I was their daughter their mother most are in the way are to know

My Career

All under that napkin crumbs of mac n cheese I wish I could hear them chewing instead of coughing Banging on the piano in the corner the Lutheran church had a filthy floor what could I do except sweep mostly leaves and lots of hair just like in Lawrence another start to the day whether we know or not there is another type of day it is called night

Removal

If anyone has extra bottles of graffiti remover please give them to me the small drawing of pi in the elevator and someone riding a bike right underneath and through a scratched landscape gone over with a sharpie and some whiteout

You're Stupid

There's an idea you have to take it thirty minutes paid it is about bias further and further You have to do it I am the only sane person on the planet the rest of you are all nuts for you an hour basically we are all profiled basically someone a person

Sure

Sure there are tacos and soup and desert sure we have coffee with creamer and sugar sure there is your mattress and blanket yes you are homeless yes I am married thanks for being here the coffee is still hot though you don't know it is decaf and I am already late for work yes it is easier if you are a team if you are okay and the place is dry at least don't mind the fluorescents

Gorse Today

The future forests of gorse stuck to toothpicks spray painted green show the topo of an imaginary land I would not like to inhabit lose myself in only my eyes know the difference if they would be spared the forest of gorse I would be happy to live but all else I have notified the authorities but they defer to the back dumpster and any of the stronger plastic I can possibly find

About Yellow

I knew about the yellow but that was before the picture so small next to the other of the desert and its pebbles old stones and findings I told the tale around the soup kitchen another helper said her dog wears Pendelton a little coat for when it is cold like now I thought not this this would not be what I write about not this Lutheran chamber but here it is and I am Coyote's mouth with yellow blossoms a small lupine coincidence serrated edges no they do not hurt

Birds Don't

Fly into the snow big flakes stuck to branches your swale is so lovely please come on over but bring fire we'll put it out together after you and I alone after the others getting their belongings together hopping on one leg to stay warm

Coyote's Mouth And Teeth

Edge I can only imagine look and look anyway did I mention charisma waterfall no space This seems bigger actual drift taking longer coyote's mouth yawning nip There is the grotto there the wading pool almost covered there the waiting stairs

Needed

The gorse needed special handling regular wouldn't do they said their leader is from abroad so I wasn't as tough plus the purple styrofoam was long forgotten I got to the gorse little trees just as planned but oh

Of Gorse

and misty overlooks the boundary we cannot cross except by fire even then all the seeds exploding their signs instead inside the spikes how did I know you were one of gorse

Charmed To Meet You

clicking beyond belief round the corner to the Mezzanine So what if I turned out to be lying right out underneath you ready to be wiped all the way clean

Custodian Doublecross

Gravity always wins it was in a book that it will lose when we respond we'll go to heaven on the next train that cowboy song where they ask the question Could we get more dust mops I ask in the meeting trying not to cross my eyes bump my blurred eye just in case that looks like it there we're going to be there three years ago only about nine hundred they had a parade last year

Held Only

My fist held only worry those were my earplugs now all my dreams rubble when I held him pretending to read that was not what happened Instead my dream showing only there is it possible to find what I sought so long a fixation

Increase

My disguise increased over the years gone was the state but in its place a small city began living in my eye I mean eyelid there were consequences to this that were joy apparent such as a pirate's view or the love poet his day all over the place a little early so what I asked even though my shoes weren't as heavy as hers were her back stiff and strange despite lots of soup

Forgotten

I forgot my name the first time and then the place and time I left my hat on too long it wasn't even cold Did you realize this ongoing blank long before we saw connecting stories their bodies but not endings