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

a porch light leads me home glowing bright like a lighthouse beam warning of the rocky shoals the farmland sky at night

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

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

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

Djarum special. Spice of smoke. On my porch, breathing tobacco and clove. 2pm, August 13, 2023.

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

Flutter of conure wings a young girl sings leaning on the railing of her apartment balcony home from her date

back aboard the ship Captain Luna sat with Bart pressing him; how’d you manage this little slip? you were once my savvy knight

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

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

from the barber chair mirror he watches the fear in their eyes a forty lb coo-coo clock hangs on… covered in a dozen years of dust the dust isn’t important at all

mechanical horses line up at the g… riders clad in straps of leather contemplating their fate Akira Koike takes up pole positio… favored to win

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

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