vitamin gingerbread.

I’ll never win betting on this filly, but her mane is tangled with midnight and my heart is pounded by the gavel of injustice.

Halloween is next Tuesday and one of my students told me he’s not that into Halloween because it’s Halloween every day...

When the winds blow in cool and the day blows out hot, this is where I find you...

I realized the other day I could live without you and it felt unbearable to realize how healthy we’ve become.

you out of my body the old magnolia in the park the fence around the private pool out of my head The Social Ladder the steps to my...

Could we all try being A little less opinionated These days And agree that When the sun catches The wings of the raven For a fleeting...

One rain-spattered afternoon In Portland I wander with Vague direction down Glistening streets Still swelling at the lingering taste Of...

You can’t crack a poem As you can an egg or A nut, Insides gooey and Shattered, Respectively. Instead, you must Gaze at each Untarnished...

My head sags between my thighs After I stumble into the carport Sweating away the thrill Subsiding into Everything. Naked Stripped of...

I hold a dark blue flower Up to the sun The stem pinched lightly Between thumb and pinky I see you through the hole created by My long...

I’m in a new place these days. A little sick still, But mostly in love With being useful. Feeding my injured hen Water from a syringe I...

My hair’s growing longer So when I’m in the shower I pull on locks That tug easily, Feel them twitch And spring forth In earnest Like...

I live and die For that moment Right after I realize You are being sarcastic. For me, To tease is to trust And to trust is to love. Let...

Here we are again My dear, At that place where You want nothing more Than to touch those stars Suspended Feathered And utterly alone,...

I can’t seem to get my mind off your Browned apple bottom cheeks, Once pinched by the hands of a sorcerer, Who, while performing this...

Everything is somehow Perfect. Licking the sidewalk Tastes of salt As if we were meant To live in an ocean of Concrete coral reefs And...

Startled by the clinking of Your mug upon the table, A certain look deep in your eyes I find I cannot label. Snow is falling gently, And...

Through thick and thin, You’ve been there, friend, Through changing of the tides, When tempest tore My ship to shreds You stayed right by...

I cannot tell you what it is To wake one day and find, Pain in both your knees That’s of a sharpish, throbbing kind. Nor can I impart to...

My love, my sweet angel, You’re perfect, my dove, Sleep deeply and drift Through the clouds up above. Only good things will Await you, my...