My Poetry

When strange paths cross

petite syrah honey mustard pretzels gummy bears the tantalizing tickling of the toungue these flavors dance with one another never having met before but i introduce them in the most unlikely circumstance why shouldn’t they meet they each have their…

this or that

they say a picture is worth a thousand words so I guess a picture of a pile of shit has more to say than I do unless I write another 969 words they say that books are always better than…

3rd Street Promenade

grown men riding tiny bicycles homeless, disheveled man standing proudly having what looks to be a very interesting conversation with himself woman sitting next to her children while they make flowers out of straw for money on the street as…

the subtractor

in bed i lie trying to fall asleep i’m on my stomach and begin to swing my leg back and forth i scream with immense pain as a hangnail on my pinky toe gets snagged with the covers how could…

Thoughts of Nothing

I’m lying in bed The ceiling fan spins above me But it’s no use It just circulates the warm stale air My eye catches this large ray of light And I see the small particles of dust Whirling within it…

uncharted hemispheres

my brain does not function like the norm there are wires that go to wrong connections and others that lead to nowhere this misguided network causes grief on many occasions yet creates a unique process of thought that allows my…

a million ways to say it

i knew there was something different i didn’t know what i didn’t know why i just knew meeting you has changed my beliefs i’m beginning to believe in fate i’ve come to believe in love from the time i first…

happiness takes on many forms

sometimes I wonder what would have happened had I not veered down my current path… looking back I distantly remember my self induced excursion to a world of isolation where my friends and enemies where one in the same where…

sensible oxymorons

screaming silence from the top of my mind loud god damned noises that go on and on burning ice starts the firewater beads of liquid that drip from my frow my wet hair singes from red hot thoughts that keep…