Traces (4)

Resolution

Let the first thing

That enters your mind

Stay there.

~~~~~

Caught

In the web of sacrifice

For your own good

There is only one thing

You can do

To escape,

Surrender.

~~~~~

Fountain

Someone has placed

A leaf on the lip

Of this weathered

Cuplike stone

Spring,

Fill your vessel.

~~~~~

Generation Gap

Hey, you larvae already

Eating holes in the leaves

Of my eggplant

As if there were

No tomorrow, weren’t you

Born only yesterday?

Traces (3)

Memory

The last time

You looked back,

There was nobody

Following you—

Turn back.

~~~~~

Conditional

If I had a voice

Worth keeping,

I’d give it

All I have.

~~~~~

Morpheus

Waking but not yet

Fully, duly emptying

The last dull traces.

~~~~~

To the Reader

These scribblings

Mock me.

~~~~~

Take Two

Director’s chair’s aslant

On two legs against a wall—

The scene calls

For suspense.

Traces (2)

Superman

invincible

still my heart remains

on fire.

~~~~~

Song

looking out

across deep water—

seeing, seeing.

~~~~~

Self-Incriminating Reflection

I find myself out

Watching how

Others look at me.

~~~~~

Nothing

Leaves a trace

So much as that

Something you dare not face.

Traces (1)

Sun

your shadow not

of itself, a burning

display of incrimination.

~~~~~

Life Lines

along the line

you draw, another

longer one reigns

supreme.

~~~~~

Sense of Solitude

you want to impart,

dispense with it

like the wind

parting pines.

~~~~~

If it is

all the same

to you, I’ll take

all you have

and then some, too.

Poetry Workshop 101: How to Write a (Politically) Correct Poem

OK, class—

Put in

The right word

(Fuck)

In the right place

(Politicians)

At the right time

(Now)

I think

That’s just

Fine.