Howl of Owl

The Smitten Word

2009-05-29T09:56:00.001-07:00

There is death in my Bathtub

And noodles in the Kitchen

The boy on the up and Up

Is getting me Down

BEAR

2009-05-29T09:54:00.003-07:00

you are so many different expressions as i could conjure up

and those red striped shoes make me cast a second look-

at the orange mutant bugs that are flying from your ears

goodness, it's a scary thing when you sit in the doorway

morning

2009-05-29T09:52:00.001-07:00

It's morning again,

as it's always been,

again and again and again

'til when?

I do the best

with all these questions

in the void

of someone's smell.

post candy

2009-05-29T09:49:00.003-07:00

I'm a seven course junkie

with 200 to spare

with a well lit bush

as my african flare

My half-broken glasses

sit me in a fog,

a frog

a new way of doing things

to slow, 50's jazz

and a squeeze of lime

It's the blood in your eye

that makes me hot

for a snow cone

on the 5th of July

Independent Betrayed.

the end

2009-05-29T09:42:00.003-07:00

i want to burn my fingers

i want to lick your lips

its sensory overload season

and all i can see is your pale tallness

seeping from my view

i skipped the meeting,

i don't want to move up there

can't a woman be content

sitting naked with her friends,

hanging on branches

in the allusion of a tow

we all know each other

dwell in each other's arms and beds

and the same kitchen table

we are the food that sustains us

and the sunshine in our throats

i'm a seadoo in your saliva,

swallow please

i'd rather be inside

but for now you are my think thumb

i'll write down the name of everyone i love,

need, desire and collect them

in the corners of my skull,

morbid and lovely alive

write paint and sing to them

everyday, for because of them i.

you're close as grey

i feel you and you sound like

'hi, how are you?'

bearshark

2009-05-29T09:40:00.002-07:00

isn't it funny how cars are all the same

and people are all the same

and cars make the people

i mean, switch that

rain on my machine-

parade Detroit,

your airport is a

tripfest '09

ANE

2009-05-29T09:37:00.002-07:00

I want to grow my daisies in baba ganoush sprout a little conflict so I can make a truce and be a hero in your mind like I've never been I'll clear the cut gut the fish resurrect your kin

timecheck

2009-05-29T09:34:00.002-07:00

The end has ended

but none is gone

there's still some type of

backyard on my forever lawn

We're raking leaves

soon you'll check facts

and too you'll realize

that you were late in leaving

Getting Haiku

2009-04-27T14:44:00.003-07:00

blahberry cobbler

25 fingers in you

sweet gloom in corners

tuna and pear trees

smell like early morning girl -

weird and brown and green

spring came in the mail

the constant twist of lovers

keeps me up all night

daily intentions

are a mutant, furry bird

I share a nest with

tree, horizon milk

corporate wool over eyes

more like blood on oats

cigarettes tonight

in the trees, captain boy does

paint with two lovers

Lady Lira

2009-01-25T16:08:00.001-08:00

Tonight is looming and gloomy in candlelight.

It's being born and remembering the channel to life.

Sky cry orange earth stormy doom-

makes me want to do something crazy.

The air is pumping with polka.

I am in love with the feeling.

Goodbye Lady Lira, you were the sweetest whore.

Ca.r.ide

2008-12-08T18:28:00.001-08:00

Baby, let's talk mirror talk

You're in front, I'm behind

Speak with your eyes

Speak with your mind

smocks

2008-12-08T18:25:00.001-08:00

There are weeds behind your ears.
Did you hear me?
Oh.
There are weeds behind your ears.

need, needy

2008-10-27T06:51:00.003-07:00

I don't need in numbers -
warm hands and a soft face are the peasant's cream
Am I a queen to think I can save my people
on an empty stomach and a swollen heart?
By no means! Fill my cup and let's march on

I need because I was born from its table
and I will die in its troth

from something beyond

2008-10-24T10:01:00.002-07:00

Every apocalypse you could ever imagine
is happening right now.

Is the camera happening tomorrow?

Yes, and it's at 2:00.
Slip in, shave your legs in, in vitro.

The phone book will be ready.

Contesting

2008-10-24T09:58:00.002-07:00

Enter the contest-
this is a contest.
There's a ton of money in it.
Lord of the Rings will ring for you-
bells of evil eat bells of good.
I'm leaving now, good is good.
I will be a non-racist.
Love everyone.
God knows you don't love me.

Potato spouts

2008-10-24T09:56:00.001-07:00

Potato toes got the munchies.
It's late but he'll spout out soon.

the hole thing

2008-10-24T09:46:00.002-07:00

Keys for every porch in America
in my hand, in my crazy hand.
I'm here, you're here but there,
on this porch of convention in a bleak whole,
listen to the hole thing.
The Beastie Boys have a new album -
it's all instrumental, not a single line
in the hole thing, 2 years ago.

School FOR the American

2008-10-24T09:41:00.002-07:00

Sandwich and an Arnold Palmer,
South can't do it without a little sweet.
Hot in your esophagus and
cold in my stomach.
You're high, and well, I exist.
I'm cream for the peasant, and you-
the bell tolls for someone like you,
in a flash of light, in a bowl of fun.
Aren't we really free everyone?

house of hands

2008-10-24T09:39:00.001-07:00

1 roach + 65
all you want is the simple life
give me revolution in a communist land
what you need is a flag in hand
and some dynamite...

That night you were "gone."

2008-10-24T09:29:00.005-07:00

Defend your terrorist sheets
with a sock of blood.
Smoke 'em out,
Smoke your way to heaven.
You don't want me here,
and so I won't leave.
Leave me here and leave me choked.
Die for many or die for death.
I'll be the latter on the ladder.
Every day, sing a song
a song, a song, a rabbit song
in the trenches of Salvador-
the republic of blood and grits.
Grit your teeth for what you need-
clothes and shoes and forceful weeds.
Intellectual and very brave,
stop and go to miss the wave.

a friend said

2008-09-22T15:24:00.004-07:00

let me ruffle your feathers, let me
shake what you stirred, the way
you are using is really absurd. in 2025,
when you see the sky, how high
will it be? will you be inside?
the bell rings at church, it's 5
past the 5; we're frying our feet
'cause the fish have all died.
i'm sorry to tell you, so sorry
to disturb, but the way you
are using is really just absurd.

ELEPHANT

2008-09-22T14:38:00.006-07:00

You're an elephant in my shoes,
shelling nuts and sipping booze.
We're trying to fight for you, big mammal;
birdman, horseman, landman, camel.

But I can't do much for you with a crutch,
so next supper out, we're going dutch.
Until you get your act together,
you're just a big Dumbo

door to house to house to house

2008-09-22T14:36:00.004-07:00

see whole life in door knob-
put it on like button in heart throb

dirty windshield

2008-09-21T10:50:00.002-07:00

I can't see through the butterfly paste
so many dead to make such a paste
And there's a baby in my frying pan
premature olive oil skin and paper toes
Light your feet on fire, it's the road you want -
the daily grunt of something beyond yourself
Your sacred heart burns as a heart should
like summer sausage on seventh; good

happy holidays

2008-09-11T14:15:00.001-07:00

you're stuck in my brain
and i cannot scoop you out
you're a bunch of pumpkin seeds
in my big, wide pumpkin mouth

taut

2008-09-11T13:48:00.002-07:00

there's a sandwich
on the table
and sometimes
it's free
there is a mother,
she is waiting
with spoonfuls
of peas
when life
is a shamble
make
sport potpourri
and you've lost
the handle
swim in
Caspian Seas

don't know

2008-09-11T12:56:00.003-07:00

she rounds the corner
and you take a turn
come, get married
or you'll never learn
at easter time
how vinegar smells
halloween mimes
or christmas bells

i'm a woman

2008-09-11T12:54:00.001-07:00

you're right kid. it's a disgrace. hooters took my favorite bird and slapped me in the face.

making films

2008-09-11T12:48:00.003-07:00

I'm making a film
in North Carolina
Then travelin' the world
just me and vagina
I think I still love you
yes, maybe, kinda
If mama says 'okay'
it's to nationalist China

drunk pop III

2008-09-11T12:46:00.001-07:00

Drunk Pop, who's to blame?

"Everyone who's anyone who doesn't know your name."

drunk pop II

2008-09-10T09:32:00.000-07:00

Drunk Pop, what’s your Pop’s name?

“Well see boys, I had no Pop. There earth was my father, and the mutton shop.”

night

2008-09-10T09:26:00.001-07:00

Walking home, no bike tonight

Sweet earth, you sure do feel just right

Mustang with four legs so tight -

Come be in this fight

Seeing what I never see

Melancholy child to be

Swear em’ off; ‘no men for me’

Flashes on the big marquis

Wandering around the maize

Pet one dog for several days

To take a dive in headlight haze

This hair; it’s really just a phase

technology

2008-09-10T09:22:00.000-07:00

I’m in a car called innovation

Money’s at the wheel

Sedated in the back seat

With a righteous, holy seal

So I don’t know where they’re going

And even if I care

It’s a lot that men don’t say

Me, a baby in a chair

Take me home; I’m tired

And I’ve got fish to bait –

Like to catch two of them

I hope it’s not too late

drunk pop

2008-09-10T09:20:00.000-07:00

Drunk Pop, who killed the moon?

“I killed the moon boys; go to bed. Don’t think of anything but what’s inside your head.”

superman

2008-09-10T09:19:00.002-07:00

Pizza shields your eyes

But I am superman

And see your skull

So many pockets

So many places

To put things

What’s there?

names

2008-09-10T09:11:00.001-07:00

Cry big tears

Give them names

Like all new kids

And hurricanes

Shave your legs

With Jan and Ken

Lonny, Macy

Nate and Ben

til morn

2008-09-03T17:26:00.001-07:00

corn behind your eyes
sweep it up
broom's behind the frig
pizza in the freezer
see you in the morning
going to the boat

love,
fred

jewelry box mirror

2008-09-03T17:20:00.001-07:00

i get to look at shiny things all day long...
it's intoxicating

a gnat problem

2008-09-03T16:55:00.002-07:00

i'm taking my mind on a walk today
but i can't see through the gnats

"come on, i just want to see the world."

"there are things to be done. see all these gnats? there are so many gnats i can't even see through the gnats to see. do you know how many gnats that is?"

"well i am your mind, so i have an idea of..."

"you're right. so we'll stay inside today, and worry about the less important things, because those are the most important."

I'm taking my mind on a walk tomorrow.
I'm taking my mind on a walk next week.
I'm taking my mind on a walk when school gets out.

she lives

2008-09-03T15:43:00.003-07:00

it's bedtime
it's bedtime
put to rest
your sour pills

you eat sour pills
all day long ...
they're your favorite
your face likes it, huh?

i can't blame you
for not doing dishes
you hate the world
how would it love you?

the earth is dying sour face
but why even care?
this is a metaphor girl
the dishes aren't there

well, the sink is full
but so is your brain
of only what you want to know
to keep you cute and sane

wash your face
that's important
but leave the skies to chance
take a chance

i dare you
see what happens
maybe we'll die before this sink is a lake
but what about your baby sour pills

but no, don't think about them
they're not alive yet;
fight for abortion,
but don't fight for this?

sour smile, it's the same
clean out your pockets
in them you'll find
a stick and a rhyme

first hit your wrists
but gentle,
there is work to be done
and you need them

it's not your choice anymore
the pills are gone
the sour is too much,
too soon to the grave

now make a rhyme
because it's all you have
it was all there ever was
numbers bring pain

sink your face in a sink
wash your wrists
pile up the words
and walk out the door

to the street
breath it in girl
cough it up girl
you see it now?

maybe if you had stepped
out of the house a few years ago
you would have understood
but locked inside you were

and locked inside you'll be
until you know tragedy
smoke and think about it
cough it up

why do i hope for you
because you're all there is
you're the rhyme to me
but i know the words

so get up
bread is filling
but oil sheds blood
so much blood

and press some olives
look at your image
this is your new mirror
i broke yours yesterday

deal with it, remember?
this is all you have left
a meddled reflection
and scarred wrists

there is better to come
but how would you know
unless you go to the door
and enter the throws

so go and I'll watch
it's bedtime
it's bedtime
put your sour pills to rest

a ramble

2008-09-03T15:34:00.003-07:00

pulse through the temple
don't eat, you'll see
the caterpillar feast
held by the least
of those - the bugs
walk up the stairs
see no one's fair
pain is real
it stems from the tree
of what one never gave the bee-
Respect
respect you say?
honey for meteorology

disgruntled employee, deep as a

2008-08-31T19:05:00.002-07:00

I was never water, and I'll never be fired

a club

2008-08-31T19:03:00.001-07:00

The members of my body
don't pay their dues
But I let them remain
and gorge from my table
Because I need them
and they need me

put the wit in white

2008-08-31T18:58:00.001-07:00

white teeth
white skin
white dog
white friends
white fence

liberation talks

2008-08-31T18:30:00.002-07:00

people downstairs, i don't know them
dinner plates break; they break aunt kim

clowns on my wall and clowns in my head
never underestimate the power of a bed

i sleep on a box spring
i want spring

ring ring ring
4,150 casualties in Iraq

Let's be casual
Let's talk casual

dot dot dot
number dot com

who's to blame?
who's his mom?

allergies
i'm allergic to this

keep your pills,
i want to feel it

feel it
do you feel it?

Beach 2

2008-08-17T01:05:00.002-07:00

Stood against the water's tow-

a stronger Jackie to a strong Monroe.

Beach

2008-08-17T00:54:00.003-07:00

Am I conscious in the sun,

writing webs the spider spun?

Watching birds above the lake?

Wish I could see the lines they make.

attempt 3

2008-08-17T00:45:00.003-07:00

Silverware wake-up

The distinct voice- only you

Everything's amuck

plain sea creature and a great sandman

2008-08-17T00:38:00.003-07:00

I'm no textbook beauty,

but sure, I'll hold your hand.

Me, the ocean creature

and you, the great sandman.

Sit under the sun's sweet song,

I'll paint you orange, then teal

tell you all you want to know-

make you wanna feel.

us.americans

2008-08-17T00:36:00.002-07:00

Air condition us for the mountains, we want to be ready.

Owl Lamp

2008-08-17T00:23:00.002-07:00

Your eyes are pineapples

Cry sweet acid on my shoulders

Die with me tall bird

The future's in your wings

I will fly in the purple

And you'll watch from below

the artist's plight

2008-08-17T00:19:00.005-07:00

you are composed in the light-

accomplished, capable, exuding potential.

but who feels your tremors in the night,

watches you jolt from nightmares,

hears the rhythm of your deep breathes-

seeking the still air's bounty?

an attempt at 2

2008-08-17T00:03:00.005-07:00

dancing is sprinkled

like salt- just enough to give

night compelling taste

movement sails throughout

trade winds of silly blood red

captain, do you feel?

person to person in a backwards society

2008-08-16T23:57:00.003-07:00

Strum your strings

and read your books

Passers-by will

cast strange looks

For you I shake and shake and shook

From you I take and take and took

You'll always have a portion

and I'll never shade your light

But I fear I'll only be to you

witty, free and bright

baby geisha

2008-08-16T23:51:00.004-07:00

can you feel her textured feet?

they're weathered, sweet and old

she's the geisha in my land

an artist, not so bold

one day i'll be just like her

wooing all the men

staring with an open soul

but keeping closed the den

see for now she is the geisha

and tells me to 'take heart,'

'to only love the lovely men

who think your body's art'

so i will listen, and i'll read

paint a song and play a sea

drown fear, scratch my heart

for the geisha i shall be

( )

2008-08-16T23:49:00.000-07:00

the incoherence of the dying is the cohesion of life

sit or swing?

2008-08-16T23:48:00.003-07:00

a foot weaves shadows

into bricks of dance.

eyes closed, short breath,

disconnected dance

hello friend

2008-08-16T23:45:00.001-07:00

bug on my leg

live there until

i swallow you with

carnival hands

talk talk talk

2008-08-16T23:41:00.002-07:00

Governor's Wife was a child bride,

Reminds me of a friend of mine.

Wear your scarf.

You're marrying someone important.

Teach You a Lesson; Teach Me

2008-08-04T22:15:00.002-07:00

I'm a shrub.

I'm a broken branch.

I belong Garden Man, and you know it!

Twins in Triplets

2008-08-04T22:08:00.003-07:00

Salvation

There's no plan B

for 'A' Baby

Mom Baby to baby Baby

(Salvation Pt. II)

You're better than this 'C' Baby

You could be a 'B' Baby if you applied yourself

Your Brother's an 'A' Baby

Why don't you be more like your Brother?

"...but I'm my own Baby."

Salvation Part III

Baby you die.

Die so young.

Where'd you go?

Baby you're 'A.'

Disney Classics We Loathe You.

2008-08-04T22:06:00.002-07:00

Old Yeller's dying.

You're along crying.

Remember those days,

when her name was Fay?

1,2,3

2008-08-04T22:05:00.002-07:00

Everyone is important

Everyone is different

Everyone is strange

Great Harvest Bread Co.

2008-08-04T22:05:00.001-07:00

Have a muffin, be a muffin

Evaluate the weekend

2008-08-04T22:04:00.002-07:00

handwriting handwriting

olive skin, cotton gin

rooster/hen, Barbie/Ken

what does it mean?

how to make people vote

2008-08-04T22:02:00.001-07:00

Animal Balloons.

Kids love animal balloons.

Why not?

Apple Teeth

2008-08-04T22:01:00.000-07:00

Apple teeth your tired -

tuck you in the mire.

Playing

2008-08-04T21:59:00.002-07:00

Act 1: Gas is $3.76

scene 2

Father: There is a boy walking around the Belvedere with just a towel on.

Towel Boy: Your hair looks nice.

I am Peapod

2008-08-01T09:22:00.000-07:00

Hye! My naim is Peapod, what's ewe name?

Bowman Field at Night

2008-08-01T07:58:00.002-07:00

Looks like Free Willy

dying in a tank.

Evil men are evil men,

whales are more than bank.

American Safari

2008-08-01T07:56:00.001-07:00

There's oil in the Bush

Money money push

God bless America

Car

2008-08-01T07:53:00.002-07:00

Want the wind to blow

on the other side of face. rock. face. rock. face. face. face.

Black Corner

2008-08-01T07:50:00.002-07:00

Artistic, awkward green shirt -

words jump from your center.

Don't stick,

can't describe

a skateboard on a brick.

be my friend

2008-08-01T07:48:00.001-07:00

Fox News, CNN -

you can be my best friend.

Tell me that my hair looks nice,

and keep from me my every vice.

You're the rice to my noodle bowl.

( )

2008-08-01T07:46:00.003-07:00

I'm alive, are you?

Not Nice.

2008-08-01T07:44:00.004-07:00

You two brain, one necklace fiend!

Take his soul and steal his scene.

I bet you don't even like vegetables.

Obama and Batman take over

2008-08-01T07:41:00.002-07:00

Give a book a strange name.

Tell the world - they'll go insane.

"M.I.A.," the people say -

"There can only be one way."

Candyland

2008-08-01T07:37:00.001-07:00

Grab my hand to Candyland -

Marmalade and Jam Jam Bands.

attitude of gratitude

2008-08-01T07:36:00.001-07:00

I love the world,

not in the worldly sense,

but in the worldly sense.

Thanks Mom and Dad.

Big City Life

2008-08-01T07:34:00.001-07:00

Them planes is out,

Lookin' for dem criminals again.

Big city life-

You's the one for me.

Dear Shooter

2008-08-01T07:32:00.003-07:00

Hey shooter,

We have the same shoes.

Do yours sing the blues?

Or are they just living the life?

Yours,

Shooter

River Mussel

2008-08-01T07:30:00.001-07:00

River Mussel

I won't eat you.

Momma

2008-08-01T07:28:00.001-07:00

My Mom says the government can make pantyhose that don't run,

and if I don't believe her....

I Like Yes; Bedtime

2008-08-01T07:25:00.003-07:00

I'm beginning to like it here,

but I'm ending the story of the weekend with a jaw drop,

buttercup smile and a torch to light a thousand mannequins.

The good life I live,

a brave thing you did.

Cardboard

2008-08-01T06:04:00.001-07:00

Crazy kids dancing on their heads,

they must be doing drugs and driving cars.

That Person

2008-08-01T06:03:00.001-07:00

Dog walker ate my dog,

cooked it in a dinner fog.

And I'm not much for leftovers.

John McCain

2008-08-01T06:02:00.001-07:00

It's dark

I'm not.

You're funny

It's hot.

Be free

Why not?

Trust me

I fought.

yellow girl in the bathroom

2008-08-01T06:01:00.000-07:00

If I had a Jesus tattoo, I'd have to be awesome all the time.

Laying on the Ground

2008-08-01T06:00:00.001-07:00

Galt House, I look up to few

'Cause my friends work in you

a night in the sky

2008-08-01T05:59:00.001-07:00

hula hoops in the sky

hippies dance to get by

there's something in the water

Jezebel woulda fought 'er

I'll say

2008-08-01T05:54:00.002-07:00

play me carnival songs

and I'll be your wedding bell

feed you blackberries

with my piano fingers

we'll be free together

for a very long time

Forecastle

2008-08-01T05:53:00.001-07:00

Green/Yellow Wrist, I'm underage.

Del McCoury, you're a star!

American Cuisine.

2008-08-01T05:51:00.000-07:00

Let's make everything so easy,

and so delicious.

A whale

2008-07-23T13:30:00.000-07:00

I'm a person in whale skin.

I clean out my echo-location

with Q-tips.

Work

2008-07-23T13:18:00.002-07:00

In a high chair,

watching babies.

There are 13 old women

flailing their arms about.

A dream

2008-07-23T13:15:00.002-07:00

We are pushing tornadoes away with our toes,

on the edge of that rock, and we're in the throws-

of a love that doesn't really exist.

But we exist, and thus there is love.

Freezie Runs Away

2008-07-23T09:28:00.002-07:00

My retreat

Is a treat

I am Ice Cream Man

You are Diabetic

Your blood sugar shall be on someone else's head

The Swimming Hole

2008-07-23T09:19:00.002-07:00

Dog, you'll be my dolphin

We can be so free

Swim to me my mammal

Trade a tree for sea

So I will call you Duke

That is what he made you

My name shall be Dot

Because I bore and raised you

Momma gave you three legs

But you can swim just fine

I'll clutch you in this water

Forget the woods and pine

Fastfood

2008-07-20T16:22:00.002-07:00

My best friend says, "2 for 4 beef and cheddar."
She is full of cheese.

Dead Weekends

2008-07-20T16:18:00.001-07:00

I love Bowling Green
walk in a circle
I love Bowling Green
walk in a circle
I love Bowling Green
walk in a circle