Burn the yard. Set off the grass at one throw.
The flames damp and slow.
Fell the trees. Grind it all down to the pulp.
The hot dirt smoke.

Or stare out at the road - switch off the lights.

Bloody hands. Take the house down to the ground.
Hundreds of thousands o

High above the ocean
High above the sea
High above this ink and paper,
you were next to me.
Called you from the window
Called you from the drowsy,
halfway stubborn sleeping.
Waves repeat with anger
Waves repeat with cause.
Waves repeat in perfect sequence

Smell the air, smell the feedback.
Paint the road electro-pure.
Touch your hair, push the seat back.
I feel, I know, I'm sure.

Stop at the place just off the square.

We can take all the pictures and we'll take all the prose.
Resend the frozen moments. No one has to kn

Full stop where you let go - count a moment for your return.
One drop, stuttered and slow. Then you're back to approaching.
In the pictures year away, the explosions were deafening.
In the dark we all prayed to lights above the sound.

Clouds and stars collide.
Pulsing air e

I couldn't figure out how I was ever going to breathe again.
For the last hundred minutes or so
I took a peek at the signs that we've saved face with ourselves.

Piles of empty pages like mountains of potential failure.
I didn't know if I could justify myself enough to breathe i

Searching for sign of life or promise of it.
Sort of seems a shame, so soon to say, "I'm done with this."
Could it happen - magnet's power to me?
To anyone?

Read the play in the spring
Thought a lot about God's role in suffering
And all...all of the millions of times.

I heard the news in July
Had no symptoms, only the reasons why
All...all of those lost, sacred rhymes were lies.

I had imagined it mattered which reasons to

The chopper searchlight is fixed on me.
There is no escape from this gravity.
The line is ended
the label stuck
The men in blue just topped the hill.
Standing here, hands in the air
At the center of twelve guns' sites
They'll never bring her back
Never bring her b

I am
the only one
can ride that horse
th'yonder

I'm full of bees
who died at sea

it's a wonderful life
it's a wonderful life

I wore
a rooster's blood
when it flew
like doves
I'm a bog
of poisoned frogs

it's a wonderful life
it's

I got your letter it had turned to sand, lighting strikes the postman in
his hand, I hope that you remember the things you had to say, it's just
a supernatural delay... I got your package it was all a mess, lightning strikes
the postman in his chest, I hope that you remember the thin

Crystal clear, I could hear a pin drop
I know you're near, peering through perched eyes.
Words appear, and pass away with trembling
The words I fear and choke to realize:
"Rest assured, my one true love."

Fireflies flicker in the moonlight
Faint replies, from eyes I've

You're making great leaps, son
You're taking great risks.
There are a few things I haven't told you yet.
Sit right down. I'll bear it all. It's time I should come clean,
That it's all smoke and mirrors from here on out.
Draw back the blinds, tear down the curtains
There's

He leans on the door.
His arms are folded.
He opens his mouth then changes his mind.

Where to start?
(and once he does) Where to end?
Mulling nothing over on his tongue.

He says, "How are you?"

Draw a line in the sand.
Draw a star. Draw a circle on my hand.
Just because, so I know I won't forget.

Turn the volume to three.
Hit the wipers and turn onto the street.
Just because, so I know I won't forget.

Stunned and shaken/trying to sleep
Try to read some.

I heard your voice repeating on long, dark boards and stairs.
A static, buzzing beating
We'll force ourselves to care that time has pulled away.

Maybe I should try again; start over.
Let gravity have its way.
Maybe I should try again;
start over.
Let gravity have its way.

I was/I was on the verge.
I was.

I woke up to find
the sheets on the floor
one cat's on the rumpled sheets
the other's in the window watching birds
I hear her in the shower
and I'm contemplating a sick day from work