Tag: dreams

But how can I talk about it my
images veiled and the word I want
grows small in a mouth while no one waits.
The waves haven’t stopped for a minute but
amidst the churn there’s a still bubble

reserved for you and one other though
there have been so many lost packages
and delays in dreams in which you slowly
suffocate while delivering the speech

that could have saved you and in the back
of the room that talk that you wanted to
have with her maybe just a few words might

dissolve the dam but I think too much
of the poison hows the light escapes

August 12, 2025

bubble, dam, dreams, images, light, mouth, poison, speech, suffocate, waves
To go to bed and churn through the night folded
and rent by the sharp lines of half-boiling
dreams as we try our best to imagine
we can forget what we might have had to
make yesterday once the anger of the

morning has faded and our clothes are once
again dry though who would have bet against
the successful failure of the unabridged
chronicles of that self-made hermit whose

hedge maze was never real but the feeling
of being in it turning right or left
faster then much slower has never left

no matter which season finds us deciding
once and evermore to learn how to knit

June 13, 2025

bed, chronicles, dreams, hedge maze, hermit, knit, morning, night, season
the dreams of sea urchins and all the flowers we could be when

(First published in Heliosparrow.)

September 8, 2023

dreams, flowers, heliosparrow, sea urchins
the sweaty moon dreams of karaoke in winter

(First published in Modern Haiku.)

July 21, 2023

dreams, karaoke, modern haiku, sweaty moon, winter
with the night’s old trick rainbow reflecting off the participation trophy we try our best to waddle past the open door to dreams of anonymous revenge

September 12, 2022

door, dreams, rainbow, revenge, trophy
the knife tears a little more into the muscle with every move though he thought he was clever he couldn’t hide it forever and one sunny seasonably cold day the power went out and we all sat around on hard chairs and chose the dreams we would have liked to have had

August 30, 2022

chairs, dreams, knife, muscle
waiting for the final
misstep I stay inside
air conditioner ping
tink heavy dark air I
make spear points for some self
I wish I could discard
that sinking twist in the
gut deprive the fall of
all color but the game
gives up and talks about
dreams of cooking techniques
sneaks under floorboards after
brandy and cigars in
an old book and then
we may taste something new

August 2, 2022

air conditioner, book, brandy, cigars, dreams, floorboards, gut, self, spear poonts
but the white birch dreams of strangling the old man

December 13, 2021

dreams, white birch

 in nothing
 the morning 
 still but
 cries for
 seed or
 sex split
 the dark &
 in pours
 the need
 coffee
 with heavy
 feet & to
 scrape 
 dreams from
 the face
 that needs
 to face
 nothing

March 6, 2021

coffee, dreams, feet, morning, seed, sex

a red mite
walks the stones
dreams of childhood

April 16, 2014

childhood, dreams, mite, stones
I smoke too much in dreams fine welding on the mermaid

February 19, 2012

dreams, mermaid, smoke, welding
the strange poetry of dreams I wake up so thirsty

February 1, 2012

dreams, thirsty