Plain American Language

I cut a sliver/of WC William's finger
and placed it inside/my philosophy...

Sunday, May 1, 2011

Dating Scene (last poem of the 30 days, one day late)

There is a box that I kept, cellophane
clear plastic sheet, blue exterior.
Inside, a brachiosaurus and water color
of the Hudson seen from Hastings-
on-Hudson. Where is the world you've
built--sapphire stones in groups,
dark seasoning on salads, apples
that break the silences of November.
I'm looking for a Jew, who speaks in
dialectics, whose hues range from green
to the browns around the pupiles, with
hair so curly it is its own forest
and she sings like glory-bound diaspora
like shapes and wavering trees or,
when June hits, dripping popsicles,
her power lies in electricity, her font
is Helvetica and the care she heaves
for the comeliness of things brings power
to this city, she is a glass building bridge
that frames an old post office
she is the camera, the typewriter,
the ribbon stretched across the park,
she slow motion, she is the tide,
she once was. I'm looking for a Jew,
a world to build; can you help with that.

Thursday, April 14, 2011

#13: Rain (rain rain rain all day long)

A dance on the garden for three days
rain you are my Rubix cube of night
tell me once again why, on facebook,
your relationship status says single
when my eyes married the sky and
your blackened clouds. I expect,
in the middle of August, you'll
be gone--flightless fox of April.
Let light carry you away moreso than
sour memories of no-fun Sundays; let light
break you apart like exhalations

#12: Rhyme (this was a lame-o rhyme...)

Last night she Topeka
Tonight she'll tell her secret.

Sunday, April 10, 2011

#10

Knowing full well that the earth, lizard crawling
on a tilted axis,
would spin upon the sight of her
would that the earth would spin at the sight of her.

She controls the pits of him
the riptides and pools of him
the entrails of him the trails of him
how they blink, would that they'd blink
and set wind lauding the bricks and windows
of city buildings, wings that spin circles

City of spinning circles, would that you
Would, in light of love, int he light
And love would contest not
of its amber vision again,
that is to say, its amber vision is the power
that fills the canyon river and paints it amber.

II (#9, written by people on the street who were kind enough to write something, and a little weirdness at the end)

I would like a life
full of Love

full of expectations, dreams
and hope above all

with trees, rivers, dogs and rain

In a world with trials and tribulations
I find myself searching
Looking for an answer

There once was a girl
who had the whole world.

My most favorite never
have what elephant
Butt: big crazy asophagus
Cherryblossoms, see.

#8: Observations & Anomalies (written at 826DC)

There's a musk ox on the crate!
Parasaurolophus--is anything more unnatural?
Free popcorn--brought to you by Jesus.
Laugh Out Loud: tiny dog, purple leash.
Colest day in April and eating raisin bran.
Do I jog or bike on a Saturday?
Speak Spanish, man, or take a walk; something!
That's my favorite song: Something, Something I Love You.
I don't have anything: bobcat. I don't have anything.

Friday, April 8, 2011

Poem #7: The Charlie Sheen Poem

Mother, I am full of Tiger Blood.
Get me two cigarettes: I've already
smoked the first so you might
as well get three. Have you heard
from the elders, they've found new
boysenberries, each tattoing a name
onto their shrivelled skin: mine.
Lover, find anything other than
wonder, you won't find it.