Cold comes in
Swept from who knows where
Touches everything with stillness
Sound pulls back
Sheets of silence fill the empty
Hush hush - the sky's singular blue note
Read MoreUn-infecting virUSes
I wanna speak
Something
Pretty with prose
Confession
Regression
About
Ugly and truthful
Real
Personal
Pandemic
Shit
Wrap words around
A story
A telling
Of a life
A life story
One
Rose-up
Through ashes
Not a Phenix
Not a myth
Not a martyr
Just a man
A boy
Read MoreThoughts Before Uploading
Data drifting
… _ _ _ …
Un-embodied
Meatless
Fleshless
Heartless
Mindless
Soulless
The data captured of me
Sold self
Swindled in seemingly
Effortless
Endless
Innocent
Clicks
Read MoreBackyard
Backyard
A soft gentle cool breeze whispers around quiet awakening green
The sound of so many birds singing abounds
Tall trees aged and growing whined around still overcast skies
The sun rising over the front side of the house
The backside shaded, for now, it is morning
Read MoreStorm Observations
No birds sing
Silent
The song of them usually distracting
The singing multitude soundless
Not a single chirp, peep, or tweet
Their songlessness adds to the weight
Their cascading communion song gone
What is coming
Read MoreA spot a dot a speck
I’ve been trying to find a happy spot
A place to rest my mind
Let my body recover
Come to peace with a 56-year-old life
A danced life
A painted life
A sculpted life
A teaching life
A creative life
Born into a body that knows no other way
Read MorePortal
Looking past your searching gaze
Words drift by
Scenting the air with light particles
Amorphous solid stuck
No crystal lattice
To climb
Outside
Ears tung tied
Read MoreRe-view
I went into the words to find me
Lockdown had left me quarantine quiet
Mind saturated stillness
Chitchat silenced
Meditationless
I tried to form a word
Out of the nothingness
Tong stuck to the ruff of my mouth
The N of N-ext stuck there pressing
Read MoreEndings, in search of happy endings
How do we find the end? More specifically the end of systemic dysfunctions? Dysfunctions, which manifest in every form of oppression. When we look at racism, poverty, gender inequality, LGBTQ discrimination, corporate greed, political corruption, cradle to prison pipeline, global warming, white supremacy, hunger, the decimation of the rain forest, addiction, false information, testing regimens in early education, which only measures the excellence of people who are good test-takers, or the huge debt incurred pursuing higher education, religious dogma, and war we can measure oppression.
Read MoreRise
Over under toppled crumbling
Flesh fractured
Weaving regenerating
Resilience
a wonder a wonder I wonder
Read MoreLebanese Man
Seven days dreaming of you. I kept looking forward - falling back into your hypnotic gaze. Your steady eyes filled with want. Your intent - desire spilling from your every touch.
Read MoreWomb Memories
I stand on the edge. There is the sand, sky, sea and me. Heals sink in with each retracting wave. Pulling me out one grain of sand and salted sea at a time. Clouds shift overhead. The light bright then dim. The silent rhythm of drifting clouds. Accompanied by the arrhythmic percussion of the sea. Ocean crashing into quarts fills my head.
Read MoreThe Last One
Remember
The point of entry
Acknowledgment of equal wanting
The center
The point of departure
It speaks millions of words
Its sound a universal call
A space holder - timekeeper
A point of reference for all eternity
It can mark a beginning with no end
Or it can end at its beginning
Pairs of lips pressing
Read MoreWant Wanting
The heart and its' wants
The love that hungers to be given
The held back part kept closed
Half-hearted
Unobtainable unreachable unwanted
Choice eludes the heart
Like a dart tossed - bullseye
Who knows exactly where it will pierce
Read MoreWarrior Not
Sand Slipping underfoot.
Heat not normal.
Everything burnt and as far as the eyes can see only the dull repetition of dunes.
It gets in your eyes and into every crevasse of fabric, of flesh.
It crunches between your teeth, the sensation shocks you back to the present.
To Life.
Any sensation besides this baking sun is welcomed.
Single file we march.
In silence.
Read MoreWas Water
Blue, I was blue, all kinds of shades of blue - midnight blue, turquoise, indigo, baby blue, azure, aquamarine, sapphire. I was the space where the edge of the sky and water would meet. The two blues were so similar that at their edges one could not be distinguished from the other.
Read MoreBlue Around The Neck
Death and love and death and love and love and death is all there is holding flesh to bone - bone to breath - to blood.
Words splash out crash out of this inked pen.
Descriptions of ideas, perceptions.
Only known to my insides, known by no others exactly as me or I, them.
Still, communication flows, one to the other, believing that we are understood.
Misunderstood most of the time, time tells.
What was grasped or passed over?
Time tells.
Read MoreTown/Bar Scene
Dwindling and diminishing
The art of disappearing
Becoming the invisible
Time wickedly taking
Faking a lived life
Passed from moment to moment
Disguised by dreams
Fancy flesh decaying
Read MoreThe Invisible Behind Transparent (a dystopian word work)
I’ve found God
Clear and life-giving
Life-sustaining
Recycling consistently
Flowing, falling, dripping
Evaporating raining down
Clouding up in cumulous clouds
Trapped by atmosphere
Forced into a constant state
Held spherically in place
God trapped on a planet
Read MoreWaiting
Clumsy elegance
Makes shapes misplaces
Misshapes the path to becoming
Stumbled upon tumbled
Tripped over tung-tied
Been denied then tried & tried
To hide the empty
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