In this blog is a place,

A sublime abyss; a foreboding leech:
delving its fangs into your brain
and pursing its lips to get every last drip
of human intellect, speech, and wit.

A world where humans sink beneath
the water; racing their heads up
toward the life-giving blossom;
only to see a crystal shave mystified overhead-
a barrier between the Humans and the

Mermaids?

Fairtyales, they come to life-
seeking an abode in this blog;
like a 9-year-old looking for her lost dog-
"It has to be somewhere."

A place lost in dimension--a time machine
invented to go nowhere; the purgatory of
Past and Present and Future;
it seeks no comfort in the Moleskine.
It shirks from the pen and the papyrus.

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Creeps with them,
sleeps with them;
abstruse in the blank
coat-mossy haze and
fire-lit-cages;
Fire. Tumbling like
bacteria, coats churning
systematically orange.
Vomiting, maybe, a placid
spark for attention-
a crack in the well-groomed
blaze; a stuck, crusted look
flaunts his face like a maze.

Night was when I saw you last;
Splayed in a haze
and sick as a pig,
you malingered there 'til dawn's shift.

Sipped some tea before we met
that time--kissed its unctuous cheek--
but thought of you with my head adrift
in my kitchen still;

a menagerie I discovered I've fixed
of spools and spoons and sporks,
all sharing your audacious contour
of clocks, tires, topological wires.

The Big Debate.

Is my poetry something to be shared or whispered? For all to understand or for all to analyze? What direction should I be going with this?

There are pros and cons.

What about the works that make absolutely no sense?
Maybe that is just how the poet speaks.

How do you tell the difference?
I guess that's what the poet wants you to think about.



I don't know, exactly, what direction to take because I know my poems are hard to understand. But I am going to try a different path: I will try to make more concrete poems. I've been trying to do so for the past few months but I'll take the rest of this summer to brush up on this skill.


Looking forward to it!