Accidentally Joined the Counting Crows

I,
summoned to the coterie,
an itinerant Ace;
     virtuoso-so.

So unfamiliar 
are voyages to freedom
      from guitar,
          jousting in arena brights
          cauterized in nylon mail.

Hoist pianos, and
clean underneath nails, a pinky
      to lackluster polish. 

Every night, tour
       and puke 
       the prolix phrase.
           Formidable hand jobs
           behind the fortuitous
                 dinner plate. 

We,
for fans aroused by inerrant prose,
are caught between the exclusive message
          and slightly perfect tuning.

Hot Air Balloon Sketch

Over pulsing carpets of people,
our giant lung
plastering majestic ideology
all over the young scene.

From up here,
leaves fall to form macro beasts,
    seasons head east,
       and the sun consumes a cornea.

I couldn’t find the camera
in her purse
or her glasses.
just manila chap-stick
wrapped around napkins,
my only object-cathexis
not swallowed by the hot organ.

We,
giant objectives,
slowly circling a cul de sac. 
She,
my ragamuffin,
once beautiful bag lady.
The one in Hawaii
renouncing cats in sermons,
on the soil of an orchid farm,
to an alligator-skin father.
her penny shoes
tied together
like symbols of graphic unity.

And by visions from a north,
we are connected through phone lines,
cup and twine,
to an old dark at the end of a south.

2008 Nothing

A horse death, a famous laugh.

Empty is as empty does.
Because.

To: Mields

You starve a British rock
no continent brave enough
for your praise.

When that sun was looming
that early morning river bridge
you hung
in tough comforters. You
had water glasses
cough for you.

There is no blancher, face-down man
surer-of-matters, carpet-father,
vidja dweller.

Yours, a bathroom mirror
emaciated because time.
Because time dresses lightly
but with sterling intentions.
Yours is a way through,
or yours might as well be
a staple on the floor singing an organized blues,
sun gazed on vending machine light hue.

I am a stale,
stale pine tree
with my cones at the bottom
by my feet.

I want to bring you shelter, friends,
but I’m as dense
as an empty gymnasium.

I am a stale,
stale pine tree
caught alone
by a salmon
in the passing stream.

The Year Before

When I woke up that morning to answer the door
I found post-it notes in my winter jacket that I had left myself
the year before, telling me things like “make lemonade” or “go swimming”.
It was one of those surprises that held frozen effects throughout the day.

At the door,
little girls stood behind my screen door
holding out yellow handbills
to their grand opening lemonade sale
next year, their parents acting murdered in the van
parked in some brush of leaves
on the other side of the street.

I let the situation form my day
the way all first events form all days.
Like when God proposed ‘days’
to be seven repeating,
or when he made the sea
3/4 our existence.

ceilings dis way and dat

The ceiling predicts winter for you-

an ice summer twist,
carving splotches
that cover a death smell.
a moment for the arriving thoughts,
served unprepared
sitting uncooked in a microwave.

I mustve looked up at fans that spin
in cycles that dull time.
Board game awards
must copy the economic state.
Hang the potted flowers
to show you aren’t a void,
and it must hurt to be a toy.

Mouth options persist
but I must resist the ceiling myths-
grumble at the shackles,
hang heads of lettuce from the beams,
and my fingers could squish an entire light bulb.

Pull apart the light system.
Let the maze find its own way home.
Capture me in a beer tasting event.
Sing when I’m dead and decomposing
my first masterpiece called “peace master”-

March Sadness

He collected happy endings in his spare time,
though the sentiment of defeat haunted the spine of every book he had read.
Humiliating moments, obscured in testimonies of love and peace.

While everyone quickly adapted to the facets of a new era
he filed complaints for incongruent speech
blaming dog and baby jargon.

“Magic is inevitable, like God’s ultimate jurisdiction.”
“What matters most is that I have you, consistency.”
he might say.

Imgaine his thoughts parading a jacket cover: unicorns carousing under mystic waterfalls.