every night
every night
thought I was easy enough to hear
only yeses instead your room
filled with rain from the open windows the sink
overflowed behind a closed door pillow on
the floor all night. I want this poem to be
a circle but here in the middle there is
only one direction. There is an arrow
shooting through the roof telling me to
follow it out of the house. when I think of
where my life is heading I only see arrows
piercing through taught fabric.
Tonight, building the tower
of toothpicks was like
creating a poem.
Each stacked higher tenuously-
little besides friction
to hold. Did she ever fuck
him or did she sit spinning
on the chair? The plot is
just a question that will dissolve
like the layers after they
reach the tenth story
and we begin to see
that everything falls.
He is facing me mouthing
words I cannot see.
How Much Is The Internet
When this poem leaves these keys it
Has nowhere to go but I will make it leave
Or repeat with a control “C” or a
Control “P” I am the original controller
Of this text but soon it will be able to
Be copied by The Reader or deleted
But not erased or burned for that is the
Nature of a Real-Time Network
this poem feels like stretching arms up neck forward grabbing while looking around a 200 degree plane.
this poem feels like fingers extended then curved, extended then curved, extended then curved.
this poem feels like last october when the puddles crunched under each boot saying “OC TO BER”.
this poem feels like moms eye when seeing Cassatt- Crisp and Sharp then slowly blurring.