Fall is the Season (v.1). January 17, 2008

I never knew these trees in spring.
I can’t bring myself to see the leaves
as green; for me, they must always be
pear-colored, rust-red, and yellow-gold.
The breeze forever cold, biting
instead of a soft salve against impending
heat. I require snow, not mud
below my frozen feet, as I kick my way
under the lintel, back into a home once
yours and [...]

Incomplete (v.1). January 17, 2008

Finish with a fragment.
Don’t attempt to claim sense from this
sentence through strict structure.
Choke on the breath you intend
to follow with the bright
side of this shadow.
–The better place you know exists,
the second chance I can’t know
they can’t find.–
Swallow the
you know them when I share my memories,
you feel their presence, given they’re with me.
Allow their deaths finality
such [...]

Protected: New Year’s Poem. January 3, 2008

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Cart. (v.1) January 3, 2008

Every week, I pace the aisles
of a Texas grocery I’ll never see.
I scour the same shelves she
led me past my final week
within that haven of a hospital
where she had just arrived.
Thoroughly spent,
her eyes weary with need,
pleading for a partner in the task
she’d at last gathered the courage
to take on, she materialized and,
desperate past apology, led [...]