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Strange Breed
Somniferum’s Refrain- Bleed Me, Disremember I am naked ladies and forgotten ports worn out malas and blackened cumin at the orphanages in Nepal I am a concubine’s pipe, pressed neroli petalsbetween pages to remember…
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Holy Bayou
He fashioned her from the jutOf the Cypress kneeOf a strange Medicine did he mold herBut arthritic like her mother’sSilhouettes she was notOnly ancient and green As the Spanish mossHeavy with it Powder…
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Tea with the Wanderers
Tea with the Wanderers Before I looseMy site completelyWe must eat togetherAgain said MuhammadSo I made the tea soaked datesAdding rose water to Ease the melancholyBringing them toMy old friends table I sat…
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Who died?
Why can’t some keep this straight. The phones are still ringing . It has been decades, chapters, oceans ago. I have entered and exited silently without notice. Still the phone will ring at half…
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Fels Naptha and Smokes
They all knew I was born Of thunderAnd a river that splits In twoAnd knew tooThat the arch Of my browCould send them cottonwoods aswayHearts That’s what the child In me named themAnd they…
