excerpts

my favorites from the haiku year..

Everyone I love
loves someone else, thinking me
too far away to love.

the bedsheets in disarray
through a magnifying glass
antarctica

studied, drunk. youth
screams from your hairstyle.
it draws me, pulls me in

hand under covers
in bed under sheets
sky outside of few stars

conversation hearts
i eat them without even
reading the words

black cat
white snow
tip toe

in a parking lot
a boy dances with a lunch box
then, seeing me, stops

she says this:
you should get out of your room
it seems more empty than full

my picture
has been taken
own off his wall

her eyes
like a dare
that falters

the plaque reads:
"six known death occurred here"
what a view

your glasses left
without your face, sitting alone
on the windowsill

We trade hats, laughing
He smiles, says he loves some girl.
I take my hat back.

your list of things
to do. my name
glaringly absent

That red lipstick
is the stuff of dreams,
not kisses.

want to just go
naked. no clothes
not even a watch

you didn't know
you liked it
'til i did it

The map on my bed
unfolded, blue, green, alone.
Look, these roads go to you

People in cars
telling life stories
in red light glances

your sultry voice
and wry smile
are affecting my hips

I sit stone-faced
Your sobbing
Just pisses me off

at dawn
we fall asleep
mid-sentence

the part in her hair
falls discreetly, sadly over
her lazy left eye

feeling guilty about
my second donut
i slip on the ice and drop it

new raindrops
the horizon is always
the same distance away


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