life is crawling

life is crawling
slithering around the crumbling
red elbow of handmade brick
pod and prick,
spiked and shifting
in
invisible
increments
checkered and charred
wrapped by the yard
looping the decaying ribs of an abandoned chair's arm

plugged into an all knowing socket
cascading in tear dropped rows
blistering in gummy green goblets
bubbling up in sensual prose

when you sit with her
the answers come before the questions
she's velvet and caring
bent over a tin of lemon scented suds
her promise precedes the swearing

she sews a milagro into the seam of your pants
and tip-toes the porches' wood collar
a bowl of hot chilis on the tray of her chest
in the company of ironwood trees and quick crawlers

the kindest gifts, billowing love rifts
an embroidered managerie round the handles of her hips
she's an elegant composition of senitas,
prickly pears, organ pipes, cardones, open vistas

in the green moon of the sonoran desert
bear grass is gathered for our baskets
and caracas are packed deep in the dirt
asking for the squash and corn to bless us

plugged into an all knowing socket
cascading in tear dropped rows
blistering in gummy green goblets
bubbling up in sensual prose

-tucson

you're joke broke

you're joke broke
the ice, but the ice
broke my try
to have some clear communication

robots chirp their mechanical blades
the whos its and whatsits the latest crave
circumnavigating the highway
between my earcanal and your brain

soothe and tame, soothe and tame
a shattered frozen panel won't goldleaf your domain
your bloated dramas are begging for a change
with the heat of your calm breath, defrost your domain

sit here on this sunburnt bench
watch the seabirds braid the waves
the cumulonimbus shifts its head
naked, windswept, saltwashed, beige

soothe and tame, soothe and tame
cast aside the styrofoam peanuts
dump the box til it's empty
vacant and plenty
like peter and wendy
armpits to the wind

lure me

lure me to your love lit tent
where the geese fly
without breaking a sweat
and your arms pretzeled 'round
my soda straw neck
erase all my lousy, haphazard bets

excuse me i'm seemingly playing on rewind
on playing. seemingly. i'm me. excuse.

looking through the kaleidescope
you held up to my heart
i see emerald hooded planets
and long lost car parts

piles of prose,
awkward false starts
assembly lines of workers
piecing together new stars

excuse me. i'm seemingly playing on rewind
on playing. seemingly. i'm me. excuse me.

. . . . . (restaurant sounds)