when the next day she asks why, i say, "we'll stay on this earth because." there are too many ways to finish a sentence for it to ever be finished.
soma; anthropocene; this will suffice; compass
Gull; On the glass observation floor
But watch that parapet of bare wired concrete: the white gull landing paused and posed wings up: a smiling gymnast girl who knows she was perfect.
dresses and mud; lilting finality; Cagliari before a storm
I wrote a Preface for the refrigerator, which she never got around to reading.
Lunar
All that should have been Stay loosely tied Dangling on a string
Five Rounds: Boxing Sonnets
Now, he wants a new trainer, but I am his father. In these hands, I held the infant version of that boy, the same hands caught his fists as I knelt before him, taught him to sink his weight, turn over the punch.