We, this people, on a small and lo… Traveling through casual space Past aloof stars, across the way o… To a destination where all signs t… It is possible and imperative that…

I keep on dying again. Veins collapse, opening like the Small fists of sleeping Children. Memory of old tombs,

We wear the mask that grins and li… It shades our cheeks and hides our… This debt we pay to human guile With torn and bleeding hearts… We smile and mouth the myriad subt…

Funky blues Keen toed shoes High water pants Saddy night dance Red soda water

I note the obvious differences in the human family. Some of us are serious, some thrive on comedy. Some declare their lives are lived

Soft grey ghosts crawl up my sleev… to peer into my eyes while I within deny their threats and answer them with lies. Mushlike memories perform

A last love, proper in conclusion, should snip the wings forbidding further flight. But I, now,

One innocent spring your voice meant to me less than tires turning on a distant street. Your name, perhaps spoken,

Pretty women wonder where my secre… I’m not cute or built to suit a fa… But when I start to tell them, They think I’m telling lies. I say,

My man is Black Golden Amber Cha… Warm mouths of Brandy Fine Cautious sunlight on a patterned r… Coughing laughter, rocked on a whi… Graceful turns on woolen stilts S…

You may write me down in history With your bitter, twisted lies, You may trod me in the very dirt But still, like dust, I’ll rise. Does my sassiness upset you?

When love is a shimmering curtain Before a door of chance That leads to a world in question Wherein the macabrous dance Of bones that rattle in silence

Your smile, delicate rumor of peace. Deafening revolutions nestle in th… cleavage of your breasts

We, unaccustomed to courage exiles from delight live coiled in shells of lonelines… until love leaves its high holy te… and comes into our sight