Established 1999
Because I’m a skeleton
wearing a few inches
of flesh & some jeans
I’m going to rub my face
on some wild columbine
& learn how to live
on rocky slopes, sing
all the neighbors’ stares
into my direction, suck
on this rice like it’s a 5
star meal & it is, convert
my feelings into the brass angles
of jazz & then translate them
into words which are less
than the croaks of frogs
& the sadness of white
throated sparrows, make an igloo
of leaves in the fall
the wind be damned,
dance to pop songs about
having sex with money,
scratch my name into a stone
& toss it into the deepest waters
so that it can be rubbed
by an eel, look everyone
in the eye who has been broken
in so many different ways
than me, hydroplane
as often as possible, keep on
not breaking someone’s jaw,
put three times
the wrong key in the hole,
be there when the thirsty
river opens its throat.