Life Going Backwards

August 30, 2010

Life Going Backwards Sunset to searing noon Evening primrose folding in And the hours march In lockstep with eyes destroyed Holding on to a rope. Five O’clock, Four O’ Clock, three The sun blows holes in every tree Owning short shadows Rocks drop and roll down a shaken hill To kill the flames in the […]

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Predessessors at 3 am

August 27, 2010
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It is 3 am and nobody is awake but me and Sylvia Plath. She’s not letting me rest until I pay some debts. I am writing this so I can go back to sleep. Perhaps the most obvious of my artistic ancestors since quitting canvas for 3-D painted wood and poetry is William Blake. He […]

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Wisdom From A Mad Man

August 24, 2010

Watch short video clip from the Longview poetry reading. Someone in the audience was kind enough to film this on his iPhone and upload to YouTube. Wisdom from a Madman Do you have any shards of sense for me From the root of a crooked tree? My mind swirls like an oil slick In multicolored […]

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Confederate Blues

August 23, 2010
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Confederate Blues In Suffolk they say “The prophets baptize their whelps in brackish water” The salt singed stench Rises from swamps Of long tan grasses When we could no longer stand Our own urgent visions We would spin spit, Cursing our unconnected touch We would drink cheap wine By the gray Lynnhaven river And leave […]

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Poem #1 – What The Secret Organ Gave

August 22, 2010
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Poem # 1 (What the secret organ gave) I hear a voice From my skull’s center Vilified in some sudden quake That shakes the third floor Of my narrow life I spin the thin soup Of my days Into sonata skies Woven with soundless cries From a seven year old’s Sparse parched tongue What secret […]

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Second Story

August 21, 2010
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LISTEN or DOWNLOAD this poem. Second Story read by Josh Kight. Second Story I have always been a second story man Flopping between heaven and dirt Looking down from the heights or peering peripherally at God while face down blowing dust. While trimming a tree I was once ripped across the thigh by a branch […]

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The Oyster Song

August 20, 2010
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LISTEN or DOWNLOAD this poem. The Oyster Song read by Josh Kight. The Oyster Song Discarded oyster shells piled By the Lynnhaven river, had been roasted and opened Making comical mouths, screw drivers had finished the job We didn’t know how slow the joys were. Now I grind the sweetly singing fates Between filled molars […]

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Scraped Cheek Blues

August 19, 2010
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LISTEN or DOWNLOAD this poem. Scraped Cheek Blues read by Josh Kight. Scraped Cheek Blues I’ve been up all night and I have out-lived myself. Shirtless at 3 am A soft broth of fear mingles with the freckles on my shoulders pulling bones down to the lustrous floor where you’ll see my reflection skitter and […]

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On The Third Day

August 18, 2010
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LISTEN or DOWNLOAD this poem. On The Third Day read by Josh Kight. On The Third day In the lounging field In the cotton White Webs In the swinging Egyptian air In the coffin’s mouth In the toothless red satin Lay my father. The day was anybody’s day. The day was bone inside out. The […]

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The Cheap Yellow Chair

August 17, 2010
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My father bought a cheap yellow chair It sat next to nicotine tabletops That allowed him to ride that coffee up And slide that beer down Smoke that ciggy Smoke it round and round Arteries squeeze soft violins And fog drops figs around my ears I am free of the war walkers, red-faced from the […]

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