When armed with an arsenal Of ideas bigger than bombs And words that are piercing as arrows Quivering With swelling anticipation Like the tide, it crests   When faced with a blank white page You wait for the explosion The crash of the ocean wave It destroys the castles you have built But you call [...]

every night the moon slurs, smiles leering compliance, consenting out of the corner of her face. at midnight, I am less, after just one more test.   regretted by the bashful sun, at midday, his light lets learning in from a drunk, swallowing sex — drinking down below all morals, creating cause, causing effect, from [...]

Life Springs Sitting in a dark room breeds thoughts of the soul not to be indulged   the bliss of life lies in the simple   the penetrating sunlight pierces through the abyss   illuminating all the shadows dank dark crevices   new life springs from death to be reborn anew like a butterfly its [...]

Damp Those little dream brothers were made of chicken feathers, and I had to blow their dream parts forcefully from my nose. I was lobbing bottles of vitamin water at their cute little feet.   You’ll need help to rise now and some dreams won’t take you back, as if there were something determined in [...]

A line outside the liberty bell, bars you can still smoke in, cyclists covered in tattoos; my five-foot-one sister playing dress-up in her brand-new, oversized Albert Einstein Hospital coat. Everyone gone, to the shore. (Fourth of July weekend.) Gray, cobblestone streets nearly empty, melting before dusk. It’s my last day here. A crowd gathering for [...]

time runs fluid stop-motion over carpet –   around in music syncopation, notes hanging from the ceiling like mobiles   and your hands keep reaching for the moon, but clouds swarm and silver is only a flimsy figment in the dark —Sarah Lucille Marchant  

Frankie bites a peach, axks what’s gonna be on the test. Here sit our vessels, dressed up in sound, shrouded in the rattle of bone & the tap of Celeste’s pencil as she copies questions onto the surface of the desk: How can we cut the carotid artery, and how will the heart, that is [...]

LONELY NIGHTS Against the old oak I cling my cheek to hear a lost voice inside; The voice of a lost friend, the voice of my lost father and mother, the voice of lost love. And in this lonely night the voices inside the old oak are quiet and inaudible, as if dying along with [...]

We used to be small, with many a great care taking cover from comrades, waiting to give chase Seeking the monsters of our youth attics, closets, beds, basements – better we find them, than they us Rain’s worms and snow’s angels, the business of those quarters Feared only were the fatherly scold the playground rebuke [...]

O capricious heart Make me the miracle That in choir of love’s opus knells deeply Sharp as piercing awe Like eyes perched in windows of a face Gleaming with the hymn of sharing candles Kindled in a liturgical flicker of the other —Remi’el Ki  

Winterscape: Crow vs Snow Like billions of dark butterflies Beating their wings Against nightmares, rather Like myriads of Spirited coal-flakes Spread from the sky Of another world A heavy black snow Falls, falling, fallen Down towards the horizon Of my mind, where a little crow White as a lost patch Of autumn fog Is trying [...]