charred scents linger within the astronaut’s mind suits, boots, glove fingers leave scent memories behind reek of burnt toast and sulfur

summer brings slurries wicked sticky sleet drops puddling, pooling, icicles drippin… slush gushes from the frosted roof… winter heat fries the egg

Been called a jabroni for lighting a stogie. Inhaling the relief, exhaling my grief. Dawn, August 13, 2023.

we are still evolving who have we become our thoughts and doors revolving all problems still need solving as we orbit our dying sun

subdermal dust spots speckled like freckles across the nose of a woman next door on her balcony

breath of sky on her spine creeping, chilly blows flow down to her thighs the slightest summer wind

smoke of my cigarette fades into the clouds perspective from my squinted eye through my dusty glasses dusk, August 11th, 2023

Sycophant milquetoast running from your brown nose Everyone superior looked down on in the mirror Apologetic worm

Uniform yellow lines you stretch out to the curb. The lines that stretch in blue are already reserved. Long white lines stretching down t…

golden angel hair strands upon the earth needles of the bull pine scattered on the grass and dirt trap fallen raindrops

soldiers take the field foam swords and shields Costume City troops dressed in batman suits they paused for lunch at noon

lava oozes down the peak the sweat and heat, my body quiver… glowing golden, burning streams blazing, globbing, gobbling flames hungry molten rivers

strings that bind manipulate each step we take future, past, present-day threads tangling

I’ll never wake up next to her so, I hold her in my dreams. I dare not speak my heart, left my thoughts in sleep. we sit upon a park bench

a chandelier of rainbows tattooed below her eyebrow blush and bruised, Captain Luna inspected the sloppy crew dressed in their business suits