whisper into space

listen all we've learned
idle rider radio
shot long astral wave

celestial urgency

listen to me, moon
we've got to get out of here
this planet is done

the holy cannot command, so what do we do?

towns of light, look down
keep watcher's rivers flowing
driftwood's heading home

of course we specialize in all sorts of nonsense

from some enmity
shackle academy our
book of hours turn

the last two cars on the road collide

hurtle cage drive your
turn-together engines spin
across creation

stinger and silent stone met

swiftly plunge vessel
you close imposing volumes
press then, come on then

shambles

you were a tumble
rim flimsy gut portraiture
hurling hung over

st. stonehead memorial

caveman hospital
twelve floors of fevered grunting
hunting for a cure

joystruck confession

bright igniter, light
a sudden spark-white glimmer
laughter-eyed aglow

do you understand misdirection

glass suit worn away
aboard the doctor breaking
doubts dissolving day

His face looked like someone ran it under the wagon an' left it out in the sun too long, but his eyes were sharp as rattler fangs and twice as fast.

now Jack-finger Earl
had a thing or two comin'
but he weren't no cheat

reverse orphan

relative whisper
my synthetic ancestor
soft imagined past

how else could it be done

I fell on a coin,
felt its worth press into me
far from hands and home

"In that case," she choked across the smoldering bulkhead, "we'll try the last resort first."

beacon star undone
warning running rowing won
face the backwards sun

dimitri challenges the elements

dark baloonmanship
against the hounding dogwind
billow half way home

herbal lessons half a life

basil darling, don't
regret the small forever,
never sever all

country gnome and city gnome are at it again

flicker flicker, red
is sicker, while we bicker
up the broken shoe

a big thing presses on

bear paw patter fall
forge along a rocky wall
in the evening light

careful revelers

dry-head amorphous
melody of darkest grape
against untold flame

too much is all the same

coloring the mind's
mercurial transmission
inside, overflow