can barely
muster a chatty
enjambment

groundhog day
the day doesn't
have the oomph
I used to think
deserved a blockbuster
feature film starring
Bill Murray &
Andie McDowell
though as seasons
pass deserved
becomes less & less
a word I'm after
stuck watching
the shadows stretch

as your eyes are
better is the time

for these minor
variants arrived

at having thought
earlier during work

how the law prompts
imagination or

should meaning
not the law should

but we should
be so prompted

to notice the nasty
appreciably different

than difficult &
apply ourselves

with vigor to
teasing loose a

few increasingly
minimal

I am like all my work
a hopeless romantic
dressed as a pirate

for halloween readings
the limit of two each
I find offensive but

that's just an example
how hopeless my
romanticism goes

being a sharp ( Read more... )

faced with mystery
ingredients & a time limit

the reality chef sweats
in the food fears getting

sent home judged
not enough salt

the same boring afternoon
she tries a fried
slice of watermelon

my grandma phones
just to say
her William Carlos

Williams impression

just because I'm the only one ( Read more... )

aiming to duplicate the experience
a freshman in the checkout line at college
bookstore picking up a copy of LUNCH POEMS
abandoned on the alumni mugs display
& open to Lana Turner Has Collapsed
which I read rather smug the idea
that this kinda thing is worthy of study

apparently a pattern
here I am back talking

whenever ineffective

which I've been told be
fore is no way to talk