Beach Hijinks

Are four heads and three bodies
better than
four complete sets?
Who’s asking?

New Smyrna Beach, Florida

Thanks to my friend Paul Manoff who contributed 14 of the 17 syllables that make up this American Sentence

White Rooster

White rooster 
waits beneath roots, 
only roosters here, 
no hens anywhere.

New Smyrna Beach, Florida

The dark noise of longing,
this opaque path,
prickly thickets of desire.

BEHOLD THE EUCHARIST reads the sign by the GOD ALMIGHTY GUN SHOP

The captain jumped ship, 
found a bar, 
got stinking drunk, 
and then disappeared.

Nailing names to things,
They fossilize 
Into the lie of certainty.

Topsy turvy triumph,
get-up-and-go
giggles
in the upside down.

Our living ghosts
breathe foul disconnect,
while our dead
guide with their secrets.

Holy new illumination,
domestication of prophecy.

Ship of ancient appetites
sails away,
hungry souls unappeased.