Just Wind Against The Window

Rustling, shuffling

scrappy little screams

reds to redless

yellow pales 

mean are the winds against Autumn's dying leaves

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At 1:37 in the dark early day I can't worry about thoughts or dreams or tomorrow, just a silly little phrase.

It came out in a burst, so I knew it was right.

Just Fragments, Sir

The night was all struby

flekky and cream

with whimmy little barbs

i stayed up late

bellyache all shoovy and mean

i know you thought of me

too zinny and straight

then you forgate

so, so mean

i was a flimsy dream

the night was still struby

zettled by vizzy little jabs

shoovy so cruel

I cry

so crimpy 

you know i love you

(I saw this wonderness at work...it's a Lewis Carroll Jabberwocky thing.)

Seasons Change

I dug deep

begging for more 

but my flowers died and the trees fell bare

wind rose from nowhere

i wrote your name on my hand

i threw pennies in a fountain

love me?

sugar thoughts of you 

life's bitter and strange 

you're nowhere

i'm on fire

winter 

bringing on the downside

clocks stop clocking

love stops loving

it's quiet on the downside

empty kisses on paper lips

i'm feeling tired

another day 

somewhere starts its dawning

i drew hearts in an early snow at sunset 

raging orange plume

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Some days I am just worn bare and none of it means a thing anymore. And on other days I throw wishes at the beautiful sky.

So Says An Early Storm

I heard this fairytale laughter flying in the wind. Giggles and snowflakes and winter coming early on a November afternoon dropping inches of fluff to snarl ugly traffic.

Life was gentle until I lived it.

I drank too much hoping I would not know you anymore, but instead I was in the gutter and I didn't know my name.

The flowers died after your wedding. Snow fell on brown brittle leaves in early November and that night I opened wine that had turned to vinegar, then stared at my empty shining glass.

I wanted to love you, but it's one of those things that will or won't ever be for you and me.

Jawin' At The Coffee Shop

They sat in a smoky dusk watching traffic.  Caffeine in their cups and cigarettes jammed between fingers covered in grime and scars. They laughed about anything, just jawing' at the coffee shop.

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The Silly Things

Just love me

shells and the sea

damp summer on a bubble gum day

candy in your eyes

love me

yellow petal and a bee

sugar tongue

love me a little

autumn comes

throwing rainbow trees

kiss me

lips like flames

love me

shiny penny moon

snow on the beach

love me

i'm an angel 

i saw you 

i am stuck on 

you saw me too

love me?

Thoughts From The Shower

My heart is broken it's like a stone
i tossed it to the sea
watching the rings run

i threw my shredded soul to the sky
watching its ribbon spirit fly
straight to the sun

you never said goodbye to me
you were something, then you were none
i watch the rings run and my soul catch fire in the sun

It Never Ends

I know i've gone too far

so i ask 

what will you do

with the scars i carved on you

you won't tell me how it hurts

you won't tell me that i'm cruel

but i know i've gone too far

every time i look at you

what if i make a promise

a promise that is true

written in love letters i address to you

but i think i've gone too far

silence kills our laughter

what will you do

with the scars i carved on you

tell me that i'm cruel

let those letters burn

just burn the love i wrote to you

can you see a happy ending

do you find me cruel

for the love i took from you

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October sends wind to rip colorful leaves from the limbs. I rush through changing woods to find a place among half-buried stone where I watch swirling leaves fall. 

I am riding the dirt bike like a cautious bandit, getting better, bolder, and more secure. Maybe next year I'll wend through rippling autumn on a little motorcycle.