with my arm around yours
around mine a garden grows
into meadow of petals each
day a field a boundless
entrance to tomorrow’s
tomorrow
hydrangea petals floating
even through the rare rains one
white petal for each new year
that sings through time to land
inside your hand
enclosed in mine
(originally published in Live Nude Poems, Winter 2022)
back patio a jungle I pick green
ponytails out of slits of brick this
scalp of opportune flowers formed
from neglect this chaos nature
moving into void monsters at
the edges of my house skulk
and grow in spite of chemical
mist and pulling what cannot
be contained within a fence
(originally published in Home Planet News Online, Fall 2019)
Drink
the last beer
in the fridge.
The office
is a primordial
pool of bacteria.
(originally published in Hamline Lit Link, Summer 2020)
in the midst of split
caffeine
tremors & vertigo
earth I
plopped
into sinkhole
a heap of turtle
shell floor tiles
you reached
for my hand
inside
was a walnut
butter brownie
(originally published in Erothanatos, Summer 2021)
the winged violin soaring through air
all petal & leaf & major key this song
will fit somewhere why not with us
swallow it will fill the body your heart
the pulsating bass in our bedroom
jockeying deep cuts our eardrums
rhythmically rimmed as in whispering
to the other falling asleep is how good
your resounding warmth
(originally published in Cavalcade of Stars, Summer 2020)