Natural Disasters

Franklin Avenue in 2008

playing Twister in the back of taxicabs

every night was a natural disaster 

songs like volcanic eruptions 

sex like plate tectonics

tears like hurricanes 

and the sun rose

on the most exquisite hangovers

humanitarian disasters

eyes destroyed by window light 

heads like furnaces 

voices like rock tumblers 

but one more hour

with my eye socket resting

on your lips, and everything 

would be OK again

 AI banana problem

Spuddle

my love language is…

          bail money

Submarine

Bartleby

Sushi

 wrinkles in linen

wrinkles in linen 

concentrically appealing 

circles in a pond

Some Places Have Snakes

There are snakes in some places. 

Sometimes when I close my eyes 

at night, I see them.  Old wet leaves,

and a tank with some kind of polymer

foam hardened onto it, and the sun

barely making through the tall trees.

I was almost scared, then I heard

my mother calling me home for dinner.