Perspective From Under A Bridge, Part 1
You were a wrecked ruin too soon. Our recent past was your now in comparison. Your fair skin has been traded for peeling paint. Steel to steal, scraps revealed, a rugged appeal. Lastly, you sit…...
View ArticleIce Cream In UPTOWN @SebastianJoes
At Sebastian Joe’s-omnipresent red walls, sweet-toothed smiles, leather furnishings, and tattered posters. Uptown has never tasted better. Local papers mixed propaganda, spread-out reading...
View ArticleStone Arch Bridge (Contemporary)
Massive stones stand in place holding her fantastic weight. Lifetimes move under, across, and through. At moments carrying even you. An architectural feat orchestrated testament to time....
View ArticlePrologue; Traveling Through to Poland
This was a surprise Spring day in Minneapolis Last week it was bad. She said she wish she could come back in the summer We said we stay for that. Constant building of Culture Constant trading of...
View ArticleAmerican Excess
The things we do New tattoo cool Trendy trading sexes Serious life decisions Free times we live in We all need an intervention What happened to happy with self? Forget what I’ve mentioned In...
View ArticleHipster Trivia at the 331 Club
Traffic lights outside Squared off streets we ride Orange glow comes to eyes Promoting fun inside Progression riding electric tracks Now new Prius mounted bike racks To tires, to gas; of metal and...
View ArticleAnother Night on Desk
Hourly gate counts Stale air Moments we forget to breathe Passing the time Without care Caught in the hours between They come in Walking by A try at upping the score Questions so trivial Evermore...
View ArticleFear Faith
Levity of ponderance Crushed sand in place Calculated words of elegance Make hay or make haste— She said she was afraid Though there is nay to fear She said this in so many ways Speech fell upon...
View ArticleNaïve Play (as a boy)
When I was a boy, I sat on a polished smooth cement floor in my father’s four-car garage. Below me were bits of broken thermometer, recently shattered; this ancient device, with Mercury inside. It had...
View ArticleHer Morning Alarm
Crickets wake me in the morning, Even in the middle of white winter. They chirp and buzz and shake And vibrate and annoy and call- Moments later my partner is slapping Them hard to death, they die...
View ArticleDay Two: Dublin, Ireland.
Sitting here with a view of predawn Dublin; Lights slowly flicker on, A dark morning comes to fruition. Stretching and yawning moans,-cold to chill the bones through, And the others are asleep while I...
View ArticleHot Bagel
Bagel, too hot for hands, with cream cheese melt; how you entice me so. No matter, it is early in the morning and I am hungry, into my stomach you must go.
View Articlea late day
I wake to shower, She wakes to paint, The cat wakes to eat, We all might be late.
View ArticleA Good Day
A good day starts with a good morning, starts with clear sight, forgotten wrongs of yesterday, and an open mind, starts with a coffee in hand, ripened fruit, and reconnecting with loved ones, starts...
View ArticleNew Danger: Water Balloons and Squirt Guns
Nowadays water balloons and squirt guns are considered dangerous weapons. Oddities which can get you tackled to the ground, cuffed, and thrown into the back of a police cruiser. It’s kind of funny. I...
View Articleyou look like you got some sun
One of my favorite phrases to hear on Monday is, “Oh, you got a bit of sun over the weekend…” The idea of going outside and sitting in the sun without buildings, without work, without people, without...
View ArticleRed Wing on Sunday
We cut south as rain ran off a battered roof in a gale, marked with hard luck’s feel we chose to quick vacate the close crowded city. Along cornfields & heavy trucks, we drove into Red Wing proper–...
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