I am afraid I will have to save someone and won’t know how
Life saving 101; Ode to Pink; The Heist, Ode to a Lost Bracelet; The Fallen
to my lacewing, with love; how you left; how i left
like light thrusted into purple mouths, acrid petals of piety for bread broken like gold shavings...
How to bury a dead bird when you have anxiety; Winter Beach; Upon the four-year anniversary of your death
I want to be as gothic as the ocean that backdrops rows of fancy stores where
women sell half-imagined lives.
At the dog park by the bay; Significance; Meditation on Listening
in the beginning there was the word and ever since a distance to cross
At the Start of the End of the World; What’s Wrong with This Movie; Canticle for the Lost; The Difficulty; Halo
So we need, O Lord,
to shake our grief the way you shake stars
like a blanket tossed to the floor by a wild sleeper.
Booz Allen Hamilton; A Punch in the Gut; Ephemerals; Fulvia Mutica
we watched brought the popcorn wrapped in a tin foil hat waited, rounded up the odds of survival under umbrellas that foamed with anger at the endless handclaps of rain 'listen' the thundering hooves
of the sea aiming right for us