3-20-17
3-19-17
3-18-17
3-17-17
3-16-17
3-15-17
3-14-17
3-13-17
3-12-17
3-11-17
3-10-17
3-09-17
In the dark of dawn
All my failings grab my throat
and wring like pepper
3-08-17
3-07-17
3-06-17
3-05-17
Out in the March chill
our dear friend, the monster, wilts
Could this be the end?
3-04-17
3-03-17
3-02-17
I am like a crab.
Fresh pink in the briny deep.
My shell left behind.
3-01-17
All of my old wounds
scribbled out on white pages
to be picked apart
2-28-17
Ciao February!
In the history of you -
This one was okay.
2-27-17
2-26-17
Feeding our starter
whole wheat flour - cups at a time
in hopes for some yeast
2-25-17
2-24-17
2-23-17
2-22-17
2-21-17
2-20-17
2-19-17
2-18-17
2-17-17
2-16-17
2-15-17
2-14-17
2-13-17
2-12-17
2-11-17
2-10-17
It's a PandemicTM!
Can the team stop the outbreak
of these viruses?
2-09-17
2-08-17
2-07-17
Auto shop drop-off
getting my state inspection
Weee. Car Ownership.
2-06-17
2-05-17
Super Bowl Sunday
spent mostly on an airplane
I did not miss it
2-04-17
Yellow Umbrella
Grapes on a Marble Platter
Trapped in Trader Joe's
2-03-17
Back in the Bean Town
to see this year's Pantomime
Too many feelings
2-02-17
Packing like nomads
all the goods - one orange bag
And away we go!
2-01-17
Anticipation
for the event-packed weekend
creeping up on us
1-31-17
With slight reluctance
I become a part-timer
a half-accountant
1-30-17
1-29-17
1-28-17
1-27-17
1-26-17
1-25-17
Adventure prepping
for a story-telling romp
of my own design
1-24-17
1-23-17
1-22-17
Big batch o'chili
for friends and family alike
It will last for days
1-21-17
1-20-17
1-19-17
Therapy breakthough
Time to dissolve perfection
and learn to normal
1-18-17
1-17-17
1-16-17
1-15-17
1-14-17
1-13-17
1-12-17
1-11-17
1-10-17
1-09-17
1-08-17
1-07-17
1-06-17
1-05-17
1-04-17
One thousand haikus.
Seventeen syllable flares.
One day at a time.
3-19-17
Songbirds thrash about
in shallow puddles nearby
Get ready for spring
3-18-17
A troop of trash clowns
host a modern day circus
A rhythmic delight
3-17-17
Avocado sprouts
shed their ancient sunburnt leaves
in lieu of new growth
3-16-17
Potter resurgence -
Suddenly, the magic boy
is in vogue again.
3-15-17
Thanks a lot Pixar.
Once again, I am weeping
through half your movie
3-14-17
My pixel person
just slew a terrible beast
and I feel alive
3-13-17
A dream of drowning
then dread before the day breaks
Medicine at work
3-12-17
Woke very early
to secretly change the clocks
but forgot her watch
3-11-17
Screw you jellybeans.
You sugary devil food
Why...WHY ARE YOU HERE?
3-10-17
Tomorrow I run.
Not gonna lie - I'm nervous.
For heart lungs and legs
3-09-17
In the dark of dawn
All my failings grab my throat
and wring like pepper
3-08-17
Slushy underfoot
the world is wet and shifting
and I am freezing
3-07-17
Tuesday frittata,
topped with roasted tomatoes
and served with a smile.
3-06-17
Domestic lifestyle
I wash and fold and vacuum
Banal is comfort
3-05-17
Out in the March chill
our dear friend, the monster, wilts
Could this be the end?
3-04-17
Playful little cat
bounds about our tiny space
looking for treasures
3-03-17
Trapped in the green void
thoughts link with strange bedfellows
sleep is the reprieve
3-02-17
I am like a crab.
Fresh pink in the briny deep.
My shell left behind.
3-01-17
All of my old wounds
scribbled out on white pages
to be picked apart
2-28-17
Ciao February!
In the history of you -
This one was okay.
2-27-17
A depot drop-off
stop point in a mid-day run
dash-between-dashes
2-26-17
Feeding our starter
whole wheat flour - cups at a time
in hopes for some yeast
2-25-17
Fat drops break the heat
as we ogle at the storm
from our balcony
2-24-17
Closing out this week
we lament in the kitchen
as is our custom
2-23-17
No working today
Time to enjoy the weather
Climate Change is Real
2-22-17
Drinks with new colleagues
They are a much younger group
It certainly shows
2-21-17
Plant parts in peril
How do we bar the browning?
Double down on dirt
2-20-17
Exhausting catch-up
for the '16 hangover
that hasn't ended
2-19-17
Another campaign
but not the election kind
The D&D kind
2-18-17
Out by the river
It's indifferent to us
We're just passing through
2-17-17
The smell of used floss
reminds me of my grandpa
part of the estate
2-16-17
At the MVA
we need one more signature
Bureaucracy blows.
2-15-17
A run after blood draw
the hills pose a looming threat
to my poor muscles
2-14-17
Perfect chocolate cake
complete with strawberry tops
and powered sugar
2-13-17
With coffee and pluck
I tackle this work routine
and get my sh*t DONE!
2-12-17
Adorable puppy
yipping and stumbling about
melting all our hearts
2-11-17
An old college friend
stops in for brunch and a show
It's been far too long
2-10-17
It's a PandemicTM!
Can the team stop the outbreak
of these viruses?
2-09-17
Dancing with dishes
in an empty apartment
I am my own rave
2-08-17
My bright pink forearm
compared to the pale other
spurs hospital chills
2-07-17
Auto shop drop-off
getting my state inspection
Weee. Car Ownership.
2-06-17
Say no to the tube
and the cravings will subside
gotta give it time
2-05-17
Super Bowl Sunday
spent mostly on an airplane
I did not miss it
2-04-17
Yellow Umbrella
Grapes on a Marble Platter
Trapped in Trader Joe's
2-03-17
Back in the Bean Town
to see this year's Pantomime
Too many feelings
2-02-17
Packing like nomads
all the goods - one orange bag
And away we go!
2-01-17
Anticipation
for the event-packed weekend
creeping up on us
1-31-17
With slight reluctance
I become a part-timer
a half-accountant
1-30-17
Empty metal pot
caked with cheesy residue
my nap companion
1-29-17
The Dungeon Master
begins to sculpt his first world
for some first-timers
1-28-17
These TV binges
are becoming too common
How do we curb it?
1-27-17
Nothing on the books
we take a pause to collect
our dreams in a jar
1-26-17
On the couch again
weeping about some grievance
made fresh from digging
1-25-17
Adventure prepping
for a story-telling romp
of my own design
1-24-17
Air/Space Museum
way too much information
to take in at once
1-23-17
Visting sibling
crammed into the living room
on a blow up bed
1-22-17
Big batch o'chili
for friends and family alike
It will last for days
1-21-17
A sea of pink hats
An entire nation screams back
We will not comply
1-20-17
DC Holiday
glued to screens in disbelief
Holiday, my ass
1-19-17
Therapy breakthough
Time to dissolve perfection
and learn to normal
1-18-17
Nervous for blood draw
I drink way too much water
and then have to pee
1-17-17
Airport restaurant
runs out of veggie options
I guess we just drink
1-16-17
Retirement Village
where time slows to a snail's pace
for those who lack it
1-15-17
Stuffed sweet potato
plated with the utmost care
to appease elders
1-14-17
Debating grandpa
over his Texas values
is exhausting work
1-13-17
6 o'clock flight
from Ronald Reagan Airport
to the lone star state
1-12-17
Travel time again
will we ever stop moving?
Jet lag forever
1-11-17
Pricilla the plant
born from a pineapple top
looks mighty thirsty
1-10-17
Not drinking coffee
rights the prow of the self ship
to the horizon
1-09-17
Chocolate "Chirp" cookies
just like your normal cookies
except with crickets
1-08-17
A crystalline shroud
wafts over the parking lot
winter's cruel spirit
1-07-17
The puzzle builders
work on an edgeless challenge
as it snows outside
1-06-17
Onward to Baltimore
where we hang out and carouse
in the frigid cold
1-05-17
I get my blood drawn
for a trial that is testing
a Zika Vaccine
1-04-17
More and more laundry
Our clothes - shadows of the self -
skins left out to dry
1-03-17
Gigantic puddle
a calm glassy surface with
secrets underneath
1-02-17
The laundry room mists
billow off the balcony
into a greying sky
1-01-17
On the hotel lawn
watching the teenagers flee
at 2 in the morn'
12-31-16
12-30-16
A sparkler sendoff
The boozy crowd's changing lights
see the couple off
12-30-16
A former roommate
Here to travel with us to
a Philly wedding
12-29-16
Silver Spring return
We forgot this was our home
It is like a dream
12-28-16
The hammerhead shark
A sensory powerhouse
Hunter of stingrays
12-27-16
At the library
I feel like a kid again
with so much to read
12-26-16
In the aftermath
I choose to start a puzzle
My purest zen state
12-25-16
Feverish tearing
like hyenas we render
packages in twain
12-24-16
Christmas Eve service
I haven't been in a church
in nearly five years
12-23-16
Avatar rewatch
never saw it in HD
totally worth it
12-22-16
Financial meeting
too much talk of the future
gives me vertigo
12-21-16
Having a date night
in the middle of all this
was a good idea
12-20-16
Little coffee shop
Where I started first job
Fourteen years ago
12-19-16
Lucy the black dog
Sometimes toots a little while
Surveying the street
12-18-16
The brewers labor
Auto-siphoning wort
into a bucket
12-17-16
Parents convening
at a mid-way brewery
Try to keep it light!
12-16-16
My brother's new home
A house he actually owns
He is so grown up
12-15-16
Flying home again
This time for a two week stint
Here we go! Strap in!!
12-14-16
So much left to pack
How do you prioritize?
Are we ready yet?
12-13-16
Christmastime exchange
A bit more piecemeal this year
as it has been tough
12-12-16
Farewell to in-laws
Thanks for creating such an
incredible person
12-11-16
National treasures
constructed out of tree bark
for the holidays
12-10-16
Lights all around us
as we freeze our butts off in
the Washington Zoo
as we freeze our butts off in
the Washington Zoo
12-09-16
Big presentation
nearly five years worth of work
laid out on the slides
nearly five years worth of work
laid out on the slides
12-08-16
I gave permission
to take a day for myself
doing nothing rules
to take a day for myself
doing nothing rules
12-07-16
My good ol' lung burn
from the runner's desperate edge
Oh how I missed you
from the runner's desperate edge
Oh how I missed you
12-06-16
My sock theme today
is Batman/Mona Lisa
A happy mash-up
is Batman/Mona Lisa
A happy mash-up
12-05-16
Should I fix the car?
It is super cold outside
I'll do it later
It is super cold outside
I'll do it later
12-04-16
Shopping excursion
to meal plan for the whole week
My husband duties
to meal plan for the whole week
My husband duties
12-03-16
Things just don't seem to
be matching up today - it's
like my skin's on wrong
12-02-16
A shrink appointment
We talk of meditation
and expectations
We talk of meditation
and expectations
12-01-16
Wait...It's December?!
Where did time- I mean really-
Gosh that flew quickly
11-30-16
A Haiku burnout
After two and a half years
The scheme sure gets old
11-29-16
Plants on patio
to-and-fro they come inside
when it gets too cold
to-and-fro they come inside
when it gets too cold
11-28-16
Wrong way out the gate
Getting to know the new 'hood
is tricky business
Getting to know the new 'hood
is tricky business
11-27-16
Hangings on the wall
transform sanitarium
into an old folk's home
transform sanitarium
into an old folk's home
11-26-16
Facebook is outside
with a bunch of VR stuff
inside a trailer
11-25-16
OMG Westworld
thank you for helping me to
forget this past year
thank you for helping me to
forget this past year
11-24-16
Just the essentials
Thanksgiving in elements
Pie, mash and stuffing
11-23-16
Belongings galore
Our apartment is just too
small to fit it all
11-22-16
Among the boxes
we unpack and unwrap gifts
for this brand new life
11-21-16
On the open road
where the cab is a jungle
My own little ark
11-20-16
Rose Red and Snow White
climb up their lollipop tree
and watch the world turn
11-19-16
My last weekend here
Oh Boston, I shall miss you
(mostly the people)
11-18-16
The cleaner's unleashed!
How is my unemployment
so much friggin' work?
11-17-16
Extended farewell
I slowly dissolve away
like bread in water
11-16-16
An old friend in tears
Fears in the back of her throat
I offer a hand
11-15-16
Finally cleared out
The attic is all echoes
I rattle inside
11-14-16
Strangers in my home
Here to uproot all my things
and ship them away
11-13-16
The Mainards came down
and handed the keys to me
Now I have a car
11-12-16
A farewell for now
My wife is off to teach kids
I will join her soon
11-11-16
Now that I am free
The sky that looked so pleasing
gives me vertigo
11-10-16
No time to panic
It's time to reach out to all
and hold on tightly
11-09-16
After the fallout
we poke out our heads to see
if the world's ended
we poke out our heads to see
if the world's ended
11-08-16
In suffragette white
we sit and watch in horror
as the red floods in
11-07-16
The butterflies swarm
in my sick hollow belly
Much in the distance
in my sick hollow belly
Much in the distance
11-06-16
In the theater
for a two hour monologue
about the Donald
11-05-16
My hair's hit a length
where I can only refer
to it as a mane
where I can only refer
to it as a mane
11-04-16
That light over there -
Do you see it? Look harder.
That's where we're going
Do you see it? Look harder.
That's where we're going
11-03-16
We have too much stuff
I have to say it again
We have too much stuff
I have to say it again
We have too much stuff
11-02-16
At a conference
helping man an info booth
I do not like it
11-01-16
From across the way
my emotional mettle
is gravely tested
10-31-16
Bright orange entrails
We sift through those smelly guts
for tiny white pods
We sift through those smelly guts
for tiny white pods
10-30-16
Loving the colors
as the trees prepare for dark
and the cold with it
as the trees prepare for dark
and the cold with it
10-29-16
A vegetative state
where I soak the nutrients
straight from the rich soil
where I soak the nutrients
straight from the rich soil
10-28-16
My hoodie's wrist cuffs
have frayed with extreme usage
time for a new one
have frayed with extreme usage
time for a new one
10-27-16
A Thesis Defense
and my wife transitions from
student to doctor
and my wife transitions from
student to doctor
10-26-16
First day of training
cramped, awkward and explaining
the daily duties
cramped, awkward and explaining
the daily duties
10-25-16
On the river bank
Our fingers stung by the cold
bound in colored twine
Our fingers stung by the cold
bound in colored twine
10-24-16
First time DMing
Five minutes in I realize
I have no idea
Five minutes in I realize
I have no idea
10-23-16
Ants in the hotel
searching for some sustenance
We squash all of them
searching for some sustenance
We squash all of them
10-22-16
Dear Tym and Ellen,
May your days be prosperous
and bursting with joy
May your days be prosperous
and bursting with joy
10-21-16
Acorns on the tent top
when the wind blows through the oaks
We're under attack!
when the wind blows through the oaks
We're under attack!
10-20-16
The rowers arrive
hulking humans in T-shirts
concerned for their hands
10-19-16
Enthusiastic
The revision process breaks
and out floods progress
10-18-16
A month from leaving
It doesn't seem real quite yet
Someone pinch me please
10-17-16
I'm a minister
according to this website
This was too easy
10-16-16
Rolling yellow creates
for some fantastic fops
and lovely ladies
10-15-16
Cheese and Focaccia
Deliciousness abounding
I'm a fancy dude
10-14-16
A dissertation
written in under two weeks
My wife is tired
10-13-16
My apologies
for the radio silence.
Things have been crazy!
10-12-16
True American
the TV drinking game that
nearly killed us all
10-11-16
At the break of dawn
The auburn sky screams with joy
to be born again
10-10-16
Relentless being
a small tickle in the throat
that coughing won't fix
10-09-16
Cold and soaking wet
We run with ten thousand strong
collective torture
10-08-16
Red spit in the sink
Too aggressive while flossing
I can't find the source
10-07-16
Little denim rip
on the cuff of my right leg
My only god pair
on the cuff of my right leg
My only god pair
10-06-16
Cloud of swarming gnats
a writhing mass in the sun
rising and falling
10-05-16
Electric sparrows
blurt dubstep out my window
as I defrag toast
10-04-16
Eyes inside sockets
sucking in all dem light bits
for makin' thoughts with
sucking in all dem light bits
for makin' thoughts with
10-03-16
Familiar perfume
wafts about a rush hour train
I am transported
wafts about a rush hour train
I am transported
10-02-16
Couch naps and cold coughs
-the household's not feeling well-
Best watch another
10-01-16
Looming skyscrapers
slide in and out of the mist
Demigods on earth
09-30-16
Man at urinal
poised like a soldier at ease
arms behind his back
09-29-16
When we become love
the heart unfurls like a wing
and catches the wind
the heart unfurls like a wing
and catches the wind
09-28-16
Number One Grandpa
boards the train with his namesake
on a baseball capboards the train with his namesake
09-27-16
The breath of the throng
fogs up the cool window glass
our water blinds us
09-26-16
An iron chain link
about the size of my hand
suspended by wires
09-25-16
Finally catching
the tail end of this project
How long will I last?
the tail end of this project
How long will I last?
09-24-16
First taste of the sauce
since three weeks ago - I taste
sour mash and bubbles
since three weeks ago - I taste
sour mash and bubbles
09-23-16
Across the country
the hordes raise their voices and
cry: TGIF!
the hordes raise their voices and
cry: TGIF!
09-22-16
Catering orders
A fresh hell to navigate
right before the fall
A fresh hell to navigate
right before the fall
09-21-16
Hungry heart wavers
Ripe meat dances in the air
The craving is huge
Ripe meat dances in the air
The craving is huge
09-20-16
The great unceasing
Reality frays the edge
and I unravel
Reality frays the edge
and I unravel
09-19-16
In the rectory
icons of Christ spilling out
as we witness friends
icons of Christ spilling out
as we witness friends
09-18-16
Dread around nothing
It is the null, senseless void
that addles the mind
It is the null, senseless void
that addles the mind
09-17-16
Organization
As we web plots together
Index cards galore!As we web plots together
09-16-16
New iPhone update
the interface of my life
just changed drastically
the interface of my life
just changed drastically
09-15-16
All the glass vessels
from the preceding six years
etch a clear timeline
from the preceding six years
etch a clear timeline
09-14-16
In the great below
we raise our lanterns higher
to face the darkness
we raise our lanterns higher
to face the darkness
09-13-16
Brutal retelling
of a husband's poor finger
cleft twain at the nail
of a husband's poor finger
cleft twain at the nail
09-12-16
Muffled conductor
spouts out a few instructions
for the commuters
spouts out a few instructions
for the commuters
09-11-16
Hitting the pavement
all the limbs tense and shakey
I'm a newborn foal
all the limbs tense and shakey
I'm a newborn foal
09-10-16
With an empty day
and a cogent continence
so much can get done
09-09-16
Trial at the Penguin
The libations call to me
Pizza staves them off
09-08-16
The echoes of grief
hypnotic and punishing
A one-two gut punch
09-07-16
Girls on adventure
they climb trees and uncover
life's great mystery
09-06-16
On six inch wedges
she danced an accidental
wet tarantella
she danced an accidental
wet tarantella
09-05-16
Vegging out, couchwise
buds-in; pants-off; no problems
Keeping it real, yo
buds-in; pants-off; no problems
Keeping it real, yo
09-04-16
Going snake hunting
in the dangerous jungles
outside Westbrook, Maine
09-03-16
Atop the dome car
New England passes us by
You can taste the fall
09-02-16
First booze temptation
But the hand doesn't waver
A seltzer for meLight calculations
numbers nestled in their cells
They're trying so hard
08-31-16
Small time city build
Livin' day by day by dice
The game reflects life
08-30-16
I'm falling behind
It's like a rash that won't stop
itching or spreading
08-29-16
Grey morning dewdrops
trickle down the pane in spurts
All about threshold
08-28-16
Artist hangover
spend the day doing nothing
but consuming crap
08-27-16
The taste of dead air
draws my head down from the lights.
My resignation
08-26-16
Like, no one is here
What on earth am I to do?
Well...my job I guess.
08-25-16
A wandering heel
with the force of a grown man
impales my big toe
08-24-16
Listen while I play
my green tambourine in a
full denim get-up
08-23-16
Girl/men/Boy/Ladies
The hallway is a jumble
of hazzy genders
of hazzy genders
08-22-16
Conquering the sky
strapped in a tiny vessel
Endorphins throttle
08-21-16
Cabin carousing
It feels like a summer camp
Coasters here we come!
08-20-16
Visit with Mimi
It has been far, far too long
Everything slows down
08-19-16
Escalating scales
like a hollow theramin
in my grey bottle
08-18-16
Clipped hair on the skin
A multitude of black lines
Sheered Thin Carotene
08-17-16
Wistful brown napkin
cast off by a pickup truck
crossing the train tracks
08-16-16
Turtle nest digging
at the foot of a park bench
The act is grueling
08-15-16
Cinnamon Bun crepe
that's called the Gooey CK
Nearly makes me sick
08-14-16
Vegan diner fare
More food than one should consume
I need a long nap
08-13-16
Let us all walk proud
in whatever way we wish.
in whatever way we wish.
Friends and femmes unite!
08-12-16
Meticulous fly
rubs together his black limbs
like a Bond villain
08-11-16
A sudden craving
The body screams for sweet things
and I am helpless
08-10-16
Malaise spread on thick
I stare at screens, half-lidded
Where the hell am I?
08-09-16
Splayed hand hits the dash
a bony starfish on blue
for a moment: Ease
08-08-16
Cesar Flickerman
Hunger Games host and icon
styled my hair today
08-07-16
Wrong side of the bed
A fetid funk that lingers
in the summer heat
08-06-16
Friends from Germany
came to town to beat the heat
and check out Boston
08-05-16
A familiar song
snags the heart in summer air
and coaxes out tears
08-04-16
Married man at home
no wife to keep things civil
chaos reigns supreme
08-03-16
Divining the line
between the good and evil
with homemade pizza
08-02-16
Gabbing with madre
over beer and fresh sushi
Superb company
08-01-16
Go on - I dare you.
Say "literally" again
and see what happens.
07-30-16
Climbing Mont Royal
switchbacks in the northern sun
Sweat satisfaction
07-30-16
Smiles are all around
as we imbibe by the street
and game for five hours
07-29-16
An eight hour bus ride
to the enchanting Montreal
Je suis fatigue
07-28-16
Congratulations!
You are on the final lap
We're all behind you
07-27-16
The legs, they squabble
over a light evening juant
It's what's best for them
07-26-16
Tropical orange
with hints of pale lavender
Our summer sunset
07-25-16
Made sick by the feed
I can't shake hate in the heat
May the race end soon
07-24-16
Perpetually prone
as body systems process
last night's foul poison
07-23-16
Sweat in the crannies
A product of evolution
Plasma on the skin
07-22-16
A pretty big dude
tries to sprint across the street
wearing a Rush shirt
07-21-16
A seagull's crying
echoes through the massive gaps
between skyscrapers
07-20-16
Terraforming lands
in a maze of complex rules
My wife has patience
07-19-16
On a direct course
I scale the psychic stairwell
banister in hand
07-18-16
Those shimmering scales
exuberant in the sun
usher morning forth
07-17-16
As thick as church paste
We swelter in the attic
skin, weeping plasma
07-16-16
Terrible nightmare
Where I chew glass and lose teeth
I blame the stale heat
07-15-16
The Goofball Brigade
Putting on a brand new play
all about mermaids
07-14-16
Revolving phases
-the eyes glaze over the screen-
subtle vertigo
07-13-16
All of these widows
gather their husband's papers
legacy at stake
07-12-16
First step out the door
and a strand of spider silk
catches in my mouth
07-11-16
Monday caffiene rush
the mind whirs at top speeds
Time to get it done!
07-10-16
Spitty little rain
A day-mist full of not quite
particles in flight
07-09-16
Vacationeers flock
with white cannoli boxes
and city ideas
07-08-16
Friday office dull
madness creeps in the edges
I'm the only one
07-07-16
Grown man on the train
Holding a baby bottle
But where's the baby?
07-06-16
Those damned brain hornets
wriggled inside overnight
The buzz is noxious
07-05-16
Holding your soft hand
as the plane descends through mist
is all I require
07-04-16
Digging through decades
where very few memories
survive the cleaving
07-03-16
Family frenzy
laughter and drinks abounding
It's good to be home
07-02-16
Summer roadtrippin'
cruising across the mitten
Another wedding!
07-01-16
Plucky marigold
nestled in the gnarled roots
of a curbside oak
06-30-16
Persistant neck sweat
trickles down the knobbly spine
a luge to my ass
06-29-16
Tangy yellow paste
scooped from tin foil crevices
with a wooden stick
06-28-16
Crackling knee joints
protest the endless staircase -
Tell it to the judge.
06-27-16
The great snooze button
A reset of our waking
Skinner box for sleep
06-26-16
Fuzzy carpet threads
cushion thick and callused toes
A fur substitute
06-25-16
Memory shuffle
the leaflets are numerous
and stained with grievance
06-24-16
Sunshine and sirens
a park at the city's heart
soaking it all in
06-23-16
Rock hard caramel
plays a foul game of chicken
with my back molars
06-22-16
Absent minded girl
holds a half-bit banana
staring at nothing
06-21-16
Early morning rain
pattering a metal plate
just outside our window
06-20-16
Fake Senate floor
Our Chairwoman calls for yeas
The pomp is dripping
06-19-16
A Copious Phlegm:
The thirty page novella
describing my day
06-18-16
Stacks on stacks on stacks
Our books laid out before us
Ripe for the plucking
06-17-16
Guessing at fireworks
without divulging too mush
is tiresome work
06-16-16
Oh wondrous black sky
please do me this small penance
and swallow them up
06-15-16
The fever mind reels
unhinging at the bottom
and the world pours out
06-14-16
In a menthol haze
the throat-back's iron fillings
grate incessantly
06-13-16
Rehearsal outfit
Bare feet in camouflage shoes
Complete with suit pants
06-12-16
Under the big top
Our revelries blossom full
We are bursting tides
06-11-16
Family and friends clump
Despite the cold and light rain
To share each other
06-10-16
Our hands caked in earth
We plant saplings together
To celebrate love
06-09-16
Errant arm slip up
and the bowl of chips explodes
I stare - bewildered
06-08-16
Delicious muffins
banana nut by name but
I taste cyanide!
06-07-16
A day on my feet
The dogs cry out in protest
My sole aches with them
06-06-16
Meeting at the Cape
Wait, this is a thing I do?
Someone pinch me, please.
06-05-16
I can see the days -
charging over the hillside
weilding To-Do lists
06-04-16
With no agenda
we stay up monstrously late
shirking tomorrow
06-03-16
Masses underground
frustrated insects clawing
each other for food
06-02-16
Night-time bridge journey
City lights gleam on the Charles
Try not to feel small
06-01-16
My wife's night typing
sounds like a lone mouse chewing
just behind my head
05-31-16
Petite and ashen
she nearly faints on the train
We're packed in too tight
05-30-16
Soft incessant rain
Thin silk strands of white static
you must squint to see
05-29-16
Drumbeats and heartbeats
parade down the street at dusk
joy on lips and hips
05-28-16
Frozen bananas
taste all the sweeter after
a five hour campaign
05-27-16
Two Mikes - all alone
Figurative tumbleweeds
roll down the hallway
05-26-16
Out by the fountain
I meditate in the crowd
forging peace en masse
05-25-16
With temperature
rising, so comes the danger
Bring it on, Nature
05-24-16
Scraped from the brain pan
seven hundred brief snapshots
trail behind this one
05-23-16
Gaze through the fishbowl
from atop your standing desk
and bellow glory!
05-22-16
With a move nearing,
We start tackling the eaves
The great cleanse begins
05-21-16
Organizing space
between bouts of baby play
Snipets of springtime
05-20-16
Construction workers
share cigarettes and scratch-offs
on a garbage bin
05-19-16
Thumb to the masses
hoist the collective heartbeat
forever skyward
05-18-16
Tiny green fragments
quiver in the Mid-May breeze
Life makes a comeback
05-17-16
Weed smell underground
The culprit lounges nearby
in a dank walkway
05-16-16
No coffee/headphones
A stimulation cutback
for realignment
05-15-16
Sore broken bodies
we lay out about the house
like dead bumblebees
05-14-16
We are refugees
sleeping on high school gym floors
Where do we poop next?
05-13-16
Sprinting through a swamp
at four in the damn morning
in the black of night
05-12-16
At a place called "Camp"
I've seen Paul Newman's face
like a hundred times
05-11-16
Professional chat
Out on the sunny park bench
It's breezy and light
05-10-16
A feeding frenzy
The event-goers mingle
Paper plates in hand
05-09-16
Hooded man in cuffs
escorted by the police
in the station depths
05-08-16
Shattered coffee pot
shakes my lady to the core
Happy Mothers Day?
05-07-16
This chocolate cake
needs more delicious toppings
How 'bout rum cherries?
05-06-16
Lonely office space
The quiet unsettles me
as the printer hums
05-05-16
More cold and more rain
Screw talking 'bout the weather
But...I mean...COME ON!
05-04-16
A boozy evening
in a lab conference room
quite unexpected
05-03-16
Frigid pink fingers
sway like train machinery
as I run the town
05-02-16
Black dregs of coffee
warm, metallic to the taste
like blood in the mouth
warm, metallic to the taste
like blood in the mouth
05-01-16
Vibrating steel teeth
cleave my lengthy brown tresses
The reaping soothes me
04-30-16
Night run to prepare
I am lit up head to foot
like a Christmas tree
04-29-16
Tried fried soldier beans
at some colonial bar
I must say: Not bad
04-28-16
Ran a solid six
All the pieces fell to place
The trail, she cradled
04-27-16
You said that I said
that you thought that I thought...wait.
Why are we fighting?
04-26-16
Gnocchi and tofu
Hearty stickers in the pot
My tummy approves
04-25-16
Dance party for one
Kinetic Syncopation
Alive in the flesh
04-24-16
Brunch at the Banyan
Our joy is a contagion
We survived the pox
04-23-16
Farewell wacky show
I will miss your leaps and bounds
but not the bruises
04-22-16
Celebrating Earth
and the birth of my mother
with such boundless mirth
04-21-16
Dig for Buttered rolls!
Say What? Booty in your face
Girl, you in it now.
04-20-16
Food, glorious food
belly stuffed with it all day
hedonistic bliss
04-19-16
Lingering ouch lump
Are you my finger, broken?
Only time will tell
04-18-16
Cody Musselman
just out sitting on a stoop
"What's going on here?!"
04-17-16
Burger roll shreddings
are strewn about the grass patch
What a tea party
04-16-16
Squinting at the sun,
"Do you think I'll get blinded?"
My retinas scream
04-15-16
Coffee and water
small vials of life in the dark
before the great fall
04-14-16
Oh green patch of grass
how you cushion my tumbling
I'll miss you the most
04-13-16
I'm hearing seagulls
Like all the time now and it's
A little freaky
04-12-16
I'm breathing easy
as another new job starts
Payroll days are done!
04-11-16
College performance
In a pristine brick campus
Surreal don't cut it
04-10-16
Solo road tripping
With some dope pink sunglasses
Bachelorette party!
04-09-16
My hair in tangles
Electrified in person
The madman is out!
04-08-16
Choosing suspenders
For a pair of fancy pants
A thing I do now
04-07-16
Last day of old work
Something loosens in the mind
I forget myself
04-06-16
The day before last
I have to work super late
like, a whole twelve hours.
04-05-16
April snow? Really?
Honestly, I'm not surprised.
Just...don't take too long
04-04-16
An ice cream cookie
in the middle of the snow
Springtime can go screw
04-03-16
Hoops and shoes and rolls
and ladders and garbage clouds
So many to track
04-02-16
My body is pocked
with hefty grey/brown bruises
the hole is brutal
04-01-16
Late night revelries
to celebrate opening
led to Anchovies
03-31-16
Ninety minutes ON
The adrenaline pumps up
I am pure lightning
03-30-16
Lined tricep bruises
from shoving myself into
a metal ladder
03-29-16
Buckminster Fuller
Wielder of Geodesics
Look up how he slept
03-28-16
Stairwell reciting
the start of a long goodbye
to my grey alcove
03-27-16
White Knight finally
The man becomes unbridled
My God gets closer
03-26-16
Our caterpillar
bubble-mouthed and galumphing
gets us giggly
03-25-16
Reading instructions
for this brand-new French board game
est très difficile
03-24-16
My crotch in your face
I am your trusty helmet
until I kick you
03-23-16
A Corporate Luncheon
The small talk, like pulling teeth
Who cares now? I'm OUT!
03-22-16
Massive transition
from one office to the next
is now underway
03-21-16
A stairwell stress nap
adorned with vampire podcast
This is my life now
03-20-16
Banging on this drum
while tossing a ball-baby
just another day
03-19-16
A Puppetry Slam-
We're weaving at breakneck speed
with lamps and fireflies
03-18-16
Blissfully Friday
You can taste it in the air
Vacation rapture
03-17-16
Dental hygienist
buzzing in my gaping maw
A deep sea welder
03-16-16
Theodore Bleaker
Teddy by his closest friends
never saw the signs
03-15-16
Mania at dawn
The universe fills my veins
Bombast incarnate
03-14-16
Free to stretch my legs
with my old cellmate absent
I whistle at work
03-13-16
Peppery salad
and mac and cheese in low light
We're back home again
03-12-16
So delectable -
The lift of obligation
from unscheduled hours
03-11-16
Hard orange soda
tastes like an old creamsicle
dripped in shoe polish
03-10-16
I am the thumper!
All ye restaurant patrons
tremble at my din!
03-09-16
Battery-powered
mother lamp searching the field
for her lost daughters
03-08-16
Happy Birthday Dad!
and Happy Birthday Barbie!
(There's no relation)
03-07-16
A haiku frenzy
as I attempt to catch up
"Daily" is a farce
03-06-16
The dread of the grind
lingers throughout the evening
much wringing of hands
03-05-16
It's that time of year.
Our House of Cards marathon
is in turbo mode
03-04-16
Pajama Friday
a twelve hour board game session
My sweet addiction
03-03-16
Adventure outing
We hit up the town in style
and work takes a break
03-02-16
Road-tripping bestie
stops by the ol' attic space
to visit and chat.
03-01-16
Come on down, my friends!
This rabbit hole fits many
The madness begins
02-29-16
A grind resurgence
the leading mantra becomes:
Just get through this one
02-28-16
Inflamed meninges
from dehydrating tinctures
Ouch Ouch Hangover
02-27-16
Out in the mountains
my orange medallion flies
I am five again
02-26-16
Drink paralyzes
the pesky grey mattering
that makes me so fraught
02-25-16
No rabbits today
I practice my stuttering
It's t-t-t-tough
02-24-16
My head is spinning
Flailing arms grasp for the floor
The ground is comfort
02-23-16
Cathedral towers
loom ominously atop
the school on the hill
02-22-16
A cough here, sneeze there
suddenly we feel so trapped
in recycled air
02-21-16
Afternoon film shoot
I see my brother at work
he's quite talented
02-20-16
Croc store adventure:
So much more of an event
than we expected
02-19-16
A reenactment
of our cake cutting routine
incites raw laughter
02-18-16
Surly bartender
with a New Englander bite
serves up some justice
02-17-16
You know what it is?
What I just don't understand?
Pie eating contests
02-16-16
Pink potato roots
dot the gleaming kitchen sink
like grotesque spiders
02-15-16
Six hundredth haiku
just passed me by yesterday
too quickly to count
02-14-16
Swimming iguanas
And below zero wind chills
Make up our V-day
02-13-16
We begin the purge
As once again we prepare
For another great move
02-12-16
Dialated eyes
I am a cat in night
Just no bright lights please
02-11-16
Daylight after work
fills the frigid heart with glee
Spring is imminent
02-10-16
My stairwell haven -
A refuge to meditate
and cool the mind jets
02-09-16
Drag Les Miserables
lively dinner theater
with a sing-a-long!
02-08-16
We go head to head
in our great galaxy race
and drink on the way
02-07-16
Judicious language
we all sit at the table
and talk out the chaff
02-06-16
Idle. So Idle.
An engine thrumming in park.
The race is over.
02-05-16
Out an hour early
and into surreality
All the world is white.
02-04-16
A meeting of minds
We palaver over Thai
And the shit gets real
02-03-16
A portal opened
somewhere in my sinuses
The phlegm will not end
somewhere in my sinuses
The phlegm will not end
02-02-16
The Kuehn braves the pain
of having cavities filled
for nearly two hours
of having cavities filled
for nearly two hours
02-01-16
Dull brain at the wheel
Are we...what was...I'm not sure...
Something should happen.
Are we...what was...I'm not sure...
Something should happen.
01-31-16
When the fever breaks
I feel the hot exhaustion
of the phoenix birth
01-30-16
Tremendous surprise
as my father appears right
before my last show
01-29-16
A family's laughter
Blithe to the advent of tears
invigorates us
01-28-16
The show consumes all
and suddenly health falters
And sickness descends
01-27-16
Casual tin hand
prevents the cut-out pine tree
from braining the dame
01-26-16
Cop stops my napping
because he thinks I am dead
Thankfully, he laughed
01-25-16
My boots have arrived
I feel like a kid about
to play in the rain
01-24-16
A munchkin, briefly
my name is Susan and blue
is my favorite hue
01-23-16
Few words can describe
this kind of enervation
I am super tired
01-22-16
A panic attack
my co-worker in the throes
I have an ally
01-21-16
We're back in full force
ready to tackle week three
Pantomime team GOOOOOO!
01-20-16
My free form writing
and brief meditations have
made a difference
01-19-16
Soy dogs and corn chips
while we play cards on the floor
Weird winter picnic
01-18-16
MLK work day
The cube space is dang quiet
I loosen my tie
01-17-16
The end of week two
breathing easy at the close
wipe silver away
01-16-16
Twenty-two ouncer
counts as one drink right? I mean...
in the scheme of things.
01-15-16
Early MLK
I meditate and recharge
for the days to come
01-14-16
First show with stand-ins
goes off without a problem
Now we breathe easy
01-13-16
I'm doing this thing
called Morning Pages from
The Artist's Way (link)
01-12-16
The crystalline bones
sparkle in the winter breeze
attacking limbs first
01-11-16
Skin crawls on Monday
Release the inner Garfield
and grumble the hate
01-10-16
How tired am I now?
Too tired to come up with a
joke for this haiku
01-09-16
Back to back Pantos
green glasses, ruby slippers
and The Charleston!
01-08-16
Drained of all life force
I lay at the water's edge
The waves lick my skin
01-07-16
Late night explosion
I let loose the deep fury
My comrades agree
01-06-16
Keeping high spirits
is a harder battle when
friends are discouraged
01-05-16
Heat goes out at work
We bundle around our screens
like garbage can fires
01-04-16
These fifteen hour days
my terrible crucible
What will boil out?
01-03-16
Chains and caster wheels
rend the tips of my fingers
and make tech insane
01-02-16
In her memory
we drink bourbon and ginger
and Texas hold-em
01-01-16
Nostalgia gut check
as the yellow scrolling text
fades into the stars
12-31-15
We ring in the year
in our former apartment
These prospects look good
12-30-15
The hurricane's eye
Try to enjoy the stillness
while winds rage outside
12-29-15
The brown galaxies
on the skin of my breakfast
speak fragile volumes
12-28-15
Sooty, roiling pitch
seeps out the wells of my ears
and drips on the street
12-27-15
In our friend's homes
we care for their living things
Privacy stagnant
12-26-15
What is it you want?
Seriously, I told you:
Don't come here again!!
12-25-15
We miss our family
but despite this heartache we
have a great Christmas
12-24-15
Folding tamales
in the heart of a kitchen
gets the soul healing
12-23-15
Unexpected break
I'm milling about the house
like a ward patient
12-22-15
Something in the mind
pops likes a boiled cranberry
I can't stop crying
12-21-15
Eleven hour day
and then rehearsal after
I become lofty
12-20-15
Double fisting beers
with a full dose of Christmas
BERT! My lip's bleeding!!
12-19-15
All around the world
in 19th century trains
Our "Ticket to Ride"
12-18-15
When watching beer pong
focus on just reactions
You'll thank me later
12-17-15
What do you mean, "weird"?
Usually I'm cool with it
but your tone is mean
12-16-15
City in the rain
steam rising from the sewers
Where is our hero?
Where is our hero?
12-15-15
Hey you! In the hat!
What do you think you're doing?
Get off the statue.
12-14-15
Pacing in the cold
I am bursting, radiant
thumbing the knife's edge
12-13-15
Hotel vagabonds
livin' off lobby java
and yesterday's scraps
12-12-15
26.2
The number of grueling miles
my wife ran today
12-11-15
White knuckle traffic
Adrenaline in high gear
I'm going to die!
12-10-15
Big office party
at the tip-top of Boston
We're so out of place
12-09-15
Full, fierce belly rage
burns effulgent and righteous.
Stay out of my wake.
12-08-15
Shock to the system
with one terrifying whiff -
Smells like origin
Smells like origin
12-07-15
Christmas in the air!
Dive under your desks and wait
for peppermint death.
12-06-15
Choreography
in the corporate meeting room
we shake our booties!
12-05-15
Insightful car talk
reminiscent of high school
when the world seemed young
12-04-15
A day to myself
I return the broken pot
and putz about home
12-03-15
Watching the Wiz Live
with fellows, blithe and bonny
Hey! Nonny Nonny
12-02-15
Exhilaration
from the first cup of coffee
charges the vessels
12-01-15
Try to imagine
the complexity of the
next person you see
11-30-15
Talking politics
under hazy bar spotlights
Judgey in our cups
11-29-15
Boardroom palaver
vague phrases hurled to and fro
Get me off this ride
11-28-15
The body bends back
like a bow string being notched
May your aim be true
11-27-15
Peaceful walk at dusk
We brush the cold wet sand and
watch sea foam gather
11-26-15
Family gathering
over mounds of steaming food
Let's eat 'til we burst!
11-25-15
The train conductor
bellows out for our tickets
like in the old-times
11-24-15
Water main broken
the boiling water flooding
our now swamp-office
11-23-15
Early morning wake
I greet the train in darkness
damp leaves underfoot
11-22-15
Emily's birthday!
Three kinds of delicious pie
We gorge like nobles
11-21-15
Our Catholic workplace,
pristine and grand, a harsh backdrop
for our bawdy tricks
11-20-15
Plucked from the counter
Eyelash on a fingertip
What blows you away?
11-19-15
Night train mumbler
so full of speech he can't quit
until the last stop
11-18-15
Double Feature Time
A four year tradition ends.
They gave us lanyards
11-17-15
Holding on tightly
the earth rushes from beneath
and the sky opens
11-16-15
Underground descent
We sink fast into Monday
Goblins chew our limbs
11-15-15
Continental feast
Our omelettes made to order
Briefly, we feel rich
11-14-15
Wedding on a pier
The harsh cold bites the skin as
Soft joy warms the heart
11-13-15
Boozy foot ballet
coaxes a good friend to flee
to a countertop
11-12-15
Halitosis breath
punctuates conversation
my endurance test
11-11-15
This faulty dryer
left our clothes damp and musty.
Seven quarters lost!
11-10-15
Glimpsing behind us,
we see the horde ambling on
Nighttime wanderers
11-09-15
Roiling underbits
tussle in the white hot pan
and caramelize gold
11-08-15
My wife, the hero,
ran 16 miles and wrestled
with a garbage spill
11-07-15
Walking high school halls
A stranger in a strange land
Remember lockers!?
11-06-15
Five hundred haikus
seventeen beats for each day
Let's hit a thousand!
11-05-15
We leap and giggle
filled with boundless triumph from
discovering rain
11-04-15
Unspeaking, we trod,
packs laden with essentials,
into wilderness
11-03-15
Under mossy cloak
we lay our limbs head to foot
and make a Cat-Dog
11-02-15
My screaming eyeball
cries demon fire skyward
and I weep all day
11-01-15
Darkness falls early
as we begin our descent
into bleak season
10-31-15
We leave our gifts quick
our hands orange with labor
Trick or Treat, Suckahs!
10-30-15
Space-case of a day.
What was I doing? I can't...
Why does my head hurt?
10-29-15
We can't weep. We'll rust.
Such is the terrible plight
of heartless woodmen.
of heartless woodmen.
10-28-15
Glassy wet city
teems with celestial beacons
searching for a home
10-27-15
Bloody crimson brain
plopped in a bed of limp kale
Your fright for the night
10-26-15
Laundry, groceries,
clean bathroom and do dishes.
I am the Chore King
10-25-15
Such sweaty frenzy
as I worship at my church:
The House of Gesture
10-24-15
Bundled four-year-old
stares through a sex shop window
in bewilderment
10-23-15
The smell of dead leaves,
sharp and light on the wind's breath,
wafts up the crosswalk
10-22-15
Outdoor arts and crafts
in the Homicide Garden.
Gotta make a dwarf!
10-21-15
Perplexed, I stumble
under dungeon florescence
and roll my ankle
10-20-15
As the fever spikes
and nausea deepens, I think:
"Why so much candy?"
10-19-15
Tiny dot of light
rests on her purple eyelid
as we're soaring home
10-18-15
Dear swollen toenail,
Apologies for the offense.
You served my foot well.
10-17-15
Waves of bobbing heads
top the multicolored sea
of humanity
10-16-15
Anticipation
for the half marathon makes
the stomach falter
10-15-15
Stained glass fluer du lis
reminds me of France or Christ
from where I'm peeing
10-14-15
On the deep blue floor
we swim like ancient creatures
Ancestor reflex
10-13-15
Tiny jagged mouth
at my finger's meaty base.
Tell me your story!
10-12-15
Talc at the fingers
the bones of ancient fishes
dry as cosmic dust
10-11-15
I am at your back
hovering, topsy-turvy
over your soft parts
10-10-15
Sniffles at the edge
The throat screams red but silent
sickness this way comes
10-09-15
With a couple clicks
and my wife's blessing I am
free from student loans!
10-08-15
Amid my fellows
I breathe a breath collective
our lung-share program
10-07-15
You be my flyer
and I'll be your trusty base.
We'll soar together!
10-06-15
Lady's red handbag
Painted with aphorisms
Why is she so glum?
10-05-15
This flight attendant
has the severity of
Cruella Devile
10-04-15
Here we all gather
to eat and laugh and visit;
Family at ease
10-03-15
Wonderful wedding
between two special people.
Congrats Hutchinburg!
10-02-15
Odd conversations
between clusters of strangers
litter my travels
10-01-15
Stripped to copper cores
we avoid touching our ends
for fear of frying
09-30-15
Hail the Bogeyman!
As he creeps in the corner
sniffing at your shoes
09-29-15
The pitter-patter
of brisk fall showers gallop
through chambers above
09-28-15
At a snail's cadence
I cross the oil black Charles
Laden and homebound
09-27-15
My arm fell asleep
cold and tingly it lies prone
Under the belly
09-26-15
Ran a ten miler
Through town and thick groves of trees
Troubles in our wake
09-25-15
On the upper deck
We shiver and watch baseball
It's all inclusive
09-24-15
Dude sniffs while reading.
Is he sick or is he sad?
I'm left to wonder
09-23-15
Beautiful dancer
He seduces from his back
in a peacock's tongue
09-22-15
Mexican standoff
with a Chipotle storefront
This doesn't end well
09-21-15
Clutching my bagged meal
The hanger rises fiercely
Stupid doo-doo heads
09-20-15
Cranberry Ouzo
The bachelor's lazy drink
Born from convenience
09-19-15
All the vegetables
collected in one huge pot
make a hearty broth
09-18-15
Grainy photographs
hold tight their sentimental
framework. Smooth to touch.
09-17-15
Games of "Yes" and "No"
we negotiate intent
with intense glances
09-16-15
Plucky chimera
stirs a stiff gin martini
under a spotlight
09-15-15
Spider free falling
on a single strand of silk
Legs out in the wind
Legs out in the wind
09-14-15
Down syndrome girl chomps
her teeth blissfully while train
folk squirm in tight skin
09-13-15
Skinned knees and torqued neck
I am mid-grade agony
in a wrinkled suit
09-12-15
Lost on the sidewalk
Routine shifts to adventure
We're breaking new ground
09-11-15
Our talking bodies
spout lively conversation
like cafe patrons
09-10-15
The edge of dusk drifts
in pace with the path of earth
circling the drain
09-09-15
Barbie doll cabinet
Bright pink and full of horrors
peers from the corner
09-08-15
Easy to swallow
these khaki yellow capsules
that taste of nylon
09-07-15
Nighttime solitude
I am alone with my thoughts
wonder re-emerges
09-06-15
Protective fluid
gathers on the eyeball crease
and drops at threshold
09-05-15
Spiders flee their threads
as I reap the cozy nooks
where they gorged on flies
09-04-15
I feel so Roman
sitting in our huge stadium
amid the gluttons
09-03-15
Little yellow traps
stop the fungus gnats spreading
to all our house plants
09-02-15
Thought, caught in the throat,
wriggles with fetal longing
and decides to stay
09-01-15
Fluttering blackbird
skirts the shallow pool's smooth edge
just because it can
08-31-15
Eight spewing fountains
Unrelenting in their charge
Patter the pavement
08-30-15
Flip flops and sandals
Heaped like dead fish carcasses
On the patio
08-29-15
Sleep, she swoops in low
and snatches up the later
Portion of my day
08-28-15
Red bricks and blankets
Shapes confounding on low light
Adjust the muzzle
08-27-15
Confession to tunes,
the history peels back harsh
crimson undertones
08-26-15
First day at new work
a hush sets in the belly
It is a good move
08-25-15
Hexagons vex us
as we vie for precious goods
by the d6 roll
08-24-15
Unexpected sick
A fierce cognitive maelstrom
leads to hospital
08-23-15
Boston harbor mist
spits on my turtle-shell frames
spits on my turtle-shell frames
A droplet barrage
08-22-15
These elder tree trunks
intertwined with chain-ink fence
are unsettling
08-21-15
Bubbles tickle mouthes
as we savor the sweet taste
of stolen champagne
08-20-15
Breathing easily
leads to my loosening the
obligation belt
08-19-15
I have accepted
a job at a staffing firm
I start in a week!
08-18-15
Shut off from the world
I relish in the soft hum
of air, conditioned
08-17-15
Multi-colored walls,
Vibrant planes screaming missives
at the passerby
08-16-15
In a sky blue box,
we waited under white masks.
Clowns at the ready.
08-15-15
Two bowls of popcorn
accompany us on our
double feature night
08-14-15
Saw a musical,
which I haven't done in years.
It rang some old bells
08-13-15
Horrible head bees
With their stingers, swift and sharp
Assault neural flesh
08-12-15
Interview turmoil
I lose myself in the suit
A corporate shroud
08-11-15
There's only one spot
in the entire apartment
where I can make calls
08-10-15
Gross ass centipede
crawling around my bathroom
No shower today
08-09-15
Dual blisters screaming
lengthy on the wrinkled soles
The fruit of eight miles
08-08-15
Vibrant monsters stroll
in our blue floored catacombs
Are they dangerous?
08-07-15
Final day at office
The release of thick shackles
makes me rub my wrists
08-06-15
So many humans
crammed in tight, you see the dull
glazed on their eyeskins
08-05-15
New pain receptors
blossom like atomic bombs
where shockwaves come late
08-04-15
Bad breath on the train
Bacteria laden mouth
Microbial farts
08-03-15
Sweat - my companion -
you blanket the whole of me
pungent and murky
08-02-15
Poor exhausted heart
trapped pumping in a rib cage
crowded with offal
08-01-15
Racing the train home
I sweat and hop the rail ties
Cursing while I fly
07-31-15
In the fountain mist
Children run unencumbered
Under skyscrapers
07-30-15
Supreme train tension
Overloads the nervous grid
My head is all bees
07-29-15
Barefoot and boozy
we flit about the kitchen
Culinary pros
07-28-15
Biscuits and chili
with a coleslaw so crunchy
summer meal delight
07-27-15
Some days you wake up
and realize you have a wife
"How did I get here?"
07-26-15
Remote controlled fan
Technological marvel
The future is now
07-25-15
A job search flurry
kicks off this stressful weekend
much gnashing of teeth
07-24-15
I finally found
the strength and fortitude to
put in my two weeks
07-23-15
At the water's edge
I plug my nose and leap in
change leads by trauma
07-22-15
Please stop dumping snakes
in my head. There are plenty
in there already.
07-21-15
Poison in the lips
I spit burning mist at my
grim adversaries
07-20-15
The soft of this heat
lulls one to a slow death; baked
in a clay oven
07-19-15
In a Harvard lab
I listen in repose to
Charlie Wilson's War
07-18-15
On and on we go
clinking in glassy columns
Salient as sin
07-17-15
Though we are distant
I can feel my family's joy
from across the plains
07-16-15
The machinations
fire across pink neural chasms
The journey of thought
07-15-15
By the Elvis lamp
we mull over bleak futures
wearing ermine pelts
07-14-15
Swallowing poison
puts the liver through hell fire
such slick alchemy
07-13-15
In searching for terms
to describe my disorder
I find cauldronous
07-12-15
This oppressive heat
cakes on in our attic space
like molten jelly
07-11-15
In shadow and light
we scramble in the corners
grasping at monsters
07-10-15
In a darkened pub
we exchange secrets over
the aquarium glow
07-09-15
Spanish Learning App
insisting "Yo soy normal"
but I'm not so sure
07-08-15
These coffee flushings
clear the flesh pipes and basins
a bitter Drain-O
07-07-15
Applying wood stain
I find solace in wiping
it could be the fumes
07-06-15
Fractured and diminished
the modern mind drowns in tasks
like an octopus
07-05-15
Through the neighborhood
we walk slowly with broad smiles
Laden with groceries
07-04-15
Nixed on the fireworks
and instead opted for games
set in a space realm
07-03-15
A prolonged visit
from the sorceress herself
She leaves with a plant
07-02-15
Breakthrough on the board
we light up in white scribbles
and discover land
07-01-15
Here, I clack away
on a black and tarnished board
of alphabet keys
06-30-15
On our building's roof
we cut wood for a pine shelf
Sawdust in the wind
06-29-15
After birthday bliss
riddled by the terrible
scourge that is Monday
06-28-15
Some drunken Shakespeare
livens up the night and we
stay up past bedtime
06-27-15
Escaping the rain
we flee north on a ferry
to the warmth of home
06-26-15
On bumpkin island
we marvel at the soft peace
of isolation
06-25-15
28 years old
I revel in the deluge
of birthday wishes
06-24-15
Gazing distantly
a fondness softens my face
as the year flies by
06-23-15
The remnants of man
cast in shreds of wrought iron
rest lonesome on stilts
06-22-15
Pupils dilate
to the quick passage of light
from bone to finger
06-21-15
Dale David Chodos
Deft woodsman and trailblazer
Sage father of three
06-20-15
Egg with double yolk
A surprise on the skillet
Omen for the week
06-19-15
Cold beers on a wharf
sailboats and fat folks drift by
full of summer air
06-18-15
Thank you alcohol
my social panacea
provider of ease
06-17-15
Nodule of hot pain
glistening at the gum's base
angry as all hell
06-16-15
A man in yellow
perches on his brownstone roof
surveying the streets
06-15-15
Shredded to powder
in the aftermath of work
such horrid pressure
such horrid pressure
06-14-15
Deep creeping feeling
seemingly seeps peeled meaning:
Keep real fear wheeling.
06-13-15
Salty rivulets
course down my forehead and both
eyes sting with triumph
06-12-15
Ran errands with friends
cruisin' in a big red van
that we called Clifford
06-11-15
Portabella bliss
at a place called The Shake Shack
Good food and good friends
06-10-15
Small gap at train's hinge
lighted rocks and grass abound
outside - undisturbed
06-09-15
The squawking of gulls
echoes hauntingly across
the grey river's edge
06-08-15
Heavy metal screech
pounds deep to the 'lectric lobe
unfounded glory
06-07-15
The sun of summer
winks in and out through the clouds
coy and elusive
06-06-15
Haggling over
the knick-knacks and furniture:
Suburban dealings
06-05-15
Scene from bus to Maine:
Child vomits loudly while we're
waiting in traffic
06-04-15
Shriveled apple core
black and mummified by time
lonely on the street
06-03-15
Heat surge to the brow
to boil the foreign bodies
just under the skin
06-02-15
Girl is explaining
debt to her little sister
as I walk past them
06-01-15
In the misty black
we avoid the glassy pools
that litter our way
05-31-15
Water bird perching
at the reservoir's center
wings stretched out to dry
05-30-15
The smell of pastries
Wafts blissfully above those
Fat grunting bodies
05-29-15
Defibrillator
located at the front desk
use at your own risk
05-28-15
Occasional breeze
from an oscillating fan:
a meager reprieve
05-27-15
A layer of sweat
Permanently coats the skin
Summer has arrived
05-26-15
Hugging the air out
from frozen veggie bag
burns cold on the chest
05-25-15
Our conversations
are deteriorating
into base drivel
05-24-15
Locks in a trash bag
My brown tresses free at last
escaping white scalp
Locks in a trash bag
My brown tresses free at last
escaping white scalp
05-23-15
Filth beneath my nails
a full day of tinkering
and gutting old things
Filth beneath my nails
a full day of tinkering
and gutting old things
05-22-15
Wilbur couldn't breathe
so he thought about springtime
and it all slowed down
Wilbur couldn't breathe
so he thought about springtime
and it all slowed down
05-21-15
I shared my train seat
with a writhing black house fly
in the throes of death
05-20-15
Our nuptial knives
So sharp and unfamiliar
My fingers get cut
I lap with coarse tongue
at the bone dry bowl of sleep.
Parched, I amble on
05-18-15
Street encouragement
echos written in faint chalk
coaxing "You Go Girl!"
05-17-15
North Carolina
sunrise over the airport
peaceful pink and blue
05-16-15
Crouched behind a car
we wait to surprise friends with
champagne and pompoms
05-15-15
In the morning black
I rustle like pine, my needles
scrape each other fierce
05-14-15
Haircuts and birthdays
with glee and trepidation
we bound into space
05-13-15
Jolted from a dream
brain burned with the image of
a wringing of hands
05-12-15
Lunch of steel cut oats
those nutty little pellets
nourish the tissues
05-11-15
Glistening and pink
the ghosts of my wounds summon
apprehensive feelings
05-10-15
Janet R. Chodos
a sweet song on a bleak day
strong mother of three
05-09-15
Dulce de leche
from a can of sweetened milk
for tasty cupcakes
05-08-15
Heavy huffs and puffs
while holding a metal pole
train moves regardless
05-07-15
Plastered concrete wall
coaxes me down the tunnel
with grey mystery
05-06-15
Peeled bare and bled
I pulse a crumbling quasar
beacon in the dark
05-05-15
The cool rain patter
atop the skylight makes a
cacophony salve
05-04-15
Here I lounge deftly
a complacent denizen
with metro fever
05-03-15
My aching visage
basks in the welcomed glow of
weekend revelries
05-02-15
Faintly buzzing heart
Turns pink in a well of blood
That clots at the edge
05-01-15
(Ellie O'Connor)
Turtles have hard shells
They live in the water and
have a long, long life
04-30-15
And if you stumble
at least stumble with a smile,
so your teeth break too.
04-29-15
My gaping wrist wound
taunts from the corners of eyes
The real and ugly
04-28-15
A distorted face
peers back with metal sheen in
the urinal crown
04-27-15
And from the shadows,
the smiling creep emerges
to walk the last length
04-26-15
(Cam Cronin)
Do any of them,
Ornithologists that is,
fear banana peels?
04-25-15
(Will Chodos)
Not right now, okay
Not never just not right now
Please leave me alone
04-24-15
(Mike Kiley)
Nape of Nate's Neck:
Furry. Scented like Curry.
The candle smolders04-23-15
(Nicole Clark)
Deep Dark Chocolate
Grahams and marshmallow aflame
Deliciousness mine
04-22-15
(Ellen Ambrose)
Dishes in the sink
Flakes of food and grease floating
In a soapy pool
04-21-15
(Tymoteusz Kajstura)
A small bird took aim.
She dropped a deuce on the car.
Mama bird was proud.
04-20-15
(Kiki Samko)
Take me to the place
Where breath begins: that hollow
Notch at the soul’s base.
04-19-15
(Nate Safren)
CGB Spender
Alien Human Hybrids
Well manicured man
04-18-15
(Susan Cook)
Cubicle creatures
Soaking fluorescent sunshine
Productivity
04-17-15
(Wales Christian)
Serendipitous
Friendships make life long and fun
Totes m’goats awesome
04-16-15
(William Schuller)
Oh, I loved to feel
My old bicycle rattle
On the cobblestones.
04-15-15
(Noah Simes)
A hole in my pants
feels like a good metaphor
for my past three weeks
04-14-15
(Molly Kimmerling)
tobacco and bud
on a train with my brother
nirvana creeps in
04-13-15
(Libby Schap)
A salted peanut
it loved flying through the air
until it was chomped
04-12-15
(Chad Blinman)
Nineteen eighty one:
so many brilliant records
released in one year.
04-11-15
I am elated
for Em and I to start this
journey together
04-10-15
My childhood woods
looming dangerous giants
swaying in the wind
04-09-15
Patience is tested
to the unrelenting Gods
of Travel Problems
04-08-15
Four hours of shut-eye
is certainly not enough
on my last work day
04-07-15
Black threads are pilling
on our cream white comforter
like speckled dust mites
04-06-15
The house servants nicked
the polish rag to huff deep
in the root cellar
04-05-15
Cleaving the essence
from the steaming onyx pitch
emits a fresh song
04-04-15
I hobble about
like a pigeon toed toddler
after my workout
04-03-15
The drink trifecta:
a water and a caffeine
and an alcohol
04-02-15
Missing the last step
jolts the heart and puts the fear
in hyper motion
04-01-15
Stomachs in tandem
gurgling happily on
burger and fry bliss
03-31-15
Among the dead leaves
Two purple shoots pop, singing
A spring rally cry
03-30-15
The daily deluge
spews forth from the sacred top:
a prattle of nil
03-29-15
This symbolizes
the death of the final sh*t
I had left to give
03-28-15
Limb chills fluctuate
in the attic space that serves
as my apartment
03-27-15
Sharp, volcanic rock
black on skin, releases
the blushing magma
03-26-15
My partner's absence
illuminates the nuance
of heavy and light
03-25-15
A burning tickle
my prelude to the sneezing
lingers, then dissolves
03-24-15
Red-spine eyeballs pop
and swivel, frenzied under
his crusty pinched lids
03-23-15
My post-runner high
flushes in a full-body swell
that shocks the system
03-22-15
Coffee all day long
gives me a thing I call the
"Columbia Shakes"
03-21-15
Oh, skittering youth
teeming underneath like mice
seeking a shelter
03-20-15
The first day of spring
with as much day as there's night
and it f*cking snows
03-19-15
Droplets of hot wax
pepper the white counter-top
hard, blue, and fuzzy
03-18-15
Swapping wedding songs
over wine, beer and veggies
roasted over oil
03-17-15
Rain's soft pattering
on the grey hallway skylight
cools the fever stream
03-16-15
Nothing beats the feel
of the sun on your neck while
you're treading water
03-15-15
Well it's official
Boston had the snowiest
winter on record
03-14-15
Bachelor Party
carousing about the town
black-out drunk by eight
03-13-15
Crimson bands waver
between the deep black of sleep
and the gold of dawn
03-12-15
Lost in the timeline
bullet points bubble outward
to a space beyond
03-11-15
Wash the day troubles
away with a nice warm glass
of low grade sake
03-10-15
Tiny pains on skin
irk and fetter my focus
to zero percent
03-09-15
Apologetics:
Hacking design flaws with a
positive outlook
03-08-15
Floating on a sea
of my own pestilent rheum
reeks of childhood
03-07-15
Drying fingertips
crack with red and white fissures
that wail like infants
03-06-15
Patchwork nerve endings
sputter like soft cotton threads
to compel digits
03-05-15
Button-down head space
starched and primped for the battle
as we charge onward
03-04-15
Not ten meters in
knee quits and I'm up shit creek
without a paddle
03-03-15
Swaying train bodies
expand and contract with the
deft of heart muscle
03-02-15
Swirling wind vortex
cuts my face and throat with swift
ice crystals of death
03-01-15
Feet stained by blue paint
give the impression of dead
cold flesh from frostbite
02-28-15
Crackling wood boards
pop in and out of silence
and smell of sawdust
02-27-15
Two ice fishermen
rods and drills in hand, venture
on the frozen Charles
02-26-15
Giant baby head
cast in iron, gazes out
from a field of snow
02-25-15
Snowy residue
stains dry white on creases
where the action lives
02-24-15
Paper-thin mindset
pops like a ruptured eardrum
under waves of strain
02-23-15
As daylight thickens
and snow ekes into the bay
my feet retake earth
02-22-15
Muddy treadmarks paint
A filthy mosaic on
White linoleum
02-21-15
When the dust settles
My atmosphere runs fluid
and cools like aloe
02-20-15
A blazing white line
reflects into the head sphere
full measured glimpses
02-19-15
Hormones course thorough,
lighting exposed circuitry
body on the fritz
02-18-15
Atop a snow pile
I consider the grey plain
heavy in the dusk
02-17-15
Ground to a fine pulp
my mindset resembles the
brown slush underfoot
02-16-15
White patches on black
The snowy multitudes pop
stark from the night sky
02-15-15
Undulating rings
pepper my field of vision
in the pale green dawn
02-14-15
Back at the Owl Bar
In the midst of a huge storm
Warms my feeble heart
02-13-15
Security line
empty for the first time since
I can remember
02-12-15
I wish I could sleep
in a state of true comfort-
drifting off the coil
02-11-15
Black rubber olive
squeaks with fleshy relish on
my tooth enamel
02-10-15
Thrumming on hard bone
the body resonates dark
hollow frequencies
02-09-15
Alone, I thrive and
stew like mosquito larvae
in standing water
02-08-15
snow snow snow snow snow
snow snow SNOW SNOW SNOW SNOW SNOW
SNOW NO NO NO NO!
02-07-15
A full day of work
leeching, spraying, striking and
pulling drawbridges
02-06-15
Sufficiently squeezed
to the maximum threshold
I am compromised
02-05-15
Pastoral pink hues
streak pillowy and soften
dusk's frigid pallor
02-04-15
When a cold sets in
I hear my body start to
deteriorate.
02-03-15
Loose intimacy
with inanimate objects
doesn't make you friends
02-02-15
White blustery clouds
wreak havoc in powder bursts
on new-made tundra
02-01-15
Came home to a large
leak in our bedroom's ceiling
Buckets and towels
01-31-15
Lonely woman's shoe
nestled in a bank of snow
begs a narrative
01-30-15
Mystery green stain
appears on my hand after
every single show
01-29-15
The navel gazing
has gotten so out of hand
my neck fell asleep
01-28-15
Through crystal wind wisps
I trudge the thin, salted path
between snow mountains
01-27-15
Trains shut down for day
from multiple foot snow drifts
Day off in Boston!
01-26-15
Canker sore on tongue:
As uncomfortable as
talking about it
01-25-15
The Crave Affliction
sinks its talons in the base
suffusing venom
01-24-15
Gargantuan flakes
upended in droves litter
the streets of Boston
01-23-15
My greasy spiked hair
feels like chalk in my fingers
I cringe at the touch
01-22-15
Wild hair and slick skin
return to pulling, slinking
leaping and crawling
01-21-15
What nonsense is this?
Emily's chemical peel!
Face might just fall off!
01-20-15
Spectacles hang loose
as I hunch my crescent spine
over thin crossed limbs
01-19-15
Wooden pegs hammered
by rubber mallets into
soft piney housings
01-18-15
The pain of movement
creaks and groans the cracked bone-frame
shorting the light-box
01-17-15
Two shows in a day
pushes fatigue to a max
that's sleeping tired
01-16-15
Butterflies flocking
in sputtering droves inside
my leechy belly
01-15-15
Vibrant blue granules
meant to melt ice and snow
crunch under foot soles
01-14-15
Splinters in body
from rolling about the set
Panto battle scars
01-13-15
Internal panic
as I realize on the train
I misplaced my phone
01-12-15
Stocked to the gills with
Delicious foodstuffs for the
Hellish week ahead
01-11-15
Knotty bruise swelling
at the back of my head after
a concrete whacking
01-10-15
Pricks of light crowding
the pearly smile of the moon
in a jet-black field
01-09-15
Bleak and lonesome
the dark night blows in the cold
visions of no day
01-08-15
Obese Blue Jays perch
on a tree's bowing branches
in the morning sun
01-07-15
A nation freezes,
succumbing one step closer
to the cold of space
01-06-15
Purple morning sky,
pale with bloat like a drowned man
floating in the bay
01-05-15
Wind gusts like cold death
Render ache and sting on skin
The harsh of winter
01-04-15
Headstrong little boy
snowball in hand, fire in eyes
charges his sister
01-03-15
First snow of season
Fierce and stinging now but will
vanish by morning
01-02-15
Forbidden Desert:
A Brotherly Christmas Gift
Equals: Excellent
01-01-15
Feeding the kitties
their particular foodstuffs
is peculiar work
12-31-14
Remembrance thickens
the further out I wade down
familiar paths
12-30-14
Inhaled a leaf piece
while doing sit-ups outside.
Wheeze-and-Hackathon
12-29-14
Up above the clouds
head falls in majestic nods.
homage to voyage
12-28-14
Family dynamics
ebb and flow quickly in the
post-Christmas ether
12-27-14
A food tasting at
the venue for our wedding
Pomp and circumstance
12-26-14
Thrashing metal bug
rips the interior walls
of the poor stomach
12-25-14
Embracing the dual
nature of marriage is the
key to survival.
12-24-14
The serene stillness
of the airplane's wing outside
my window beckons
12-23-14
Sea legs aching, I
windshield wipe the spectacles
and plod on splashing
12-22-14
Fighting exhaustion
as the processors whir and
overheat from use.
12-21-14
Homer Wayne Rogers
A man of strength and kindness
May he rest in peace
12-20-14
Reprieve from hassles
A day spent in PJ pants
embracing the calm
12-19-14
Heart caught in the throat
Strangle the stress like a snake
plucked from the crabgrass
12-18-14
Hanukkah party
latke smell from below us
yay jewish neighbors!
12-17-14
Scarfing masala
during breaks in rehearsal
brings tummy great joy
12-16-14
Blood fury boils
from imaginary rants
spat deep in the mind
12-15-14
Back-to-back Christmas
parties test your name recall
and liver function
12-14-14
Whole coffee spilt down
flight of stairs on route to show
Great shame, greater mess
12-13-14
Sickness boils your
personality down to
its barest pieces.
12-12-14
Red swollen day with
itchy throat and heavy heart
Fevers in the cold
12-11-14
Open palms on glass
Pressing smudges on the pane
A gesture of peace
Pressing smudges on the pane
A gesture of peace
12-10-14
Hard knuckles rap on
foggy windows, counting time
'til the next big drop.
foggy windows, counting time
'til the next big drop.
12-09-14
Forty degree sleet.
Ice nettles on my bare legs.
Weather Be Damned!
Ten dry fingertips
crack in low light as snow dusts
the purple of night
crack in low light as snow dusts
the purple of night
12-07-14
Discovered drill bits
and proceeded to drill holes
into many walls.
and proceeded to drill holes
into many walls.
12-06-14
A small chance to breathe
after quite a lengthy day
calms the belly storms
12-05-14
Laughter bears a whole new weight
much like a weapon
12-04-14
Prepubescent girl
face haloed in creature furs
squints at the sun's glare
12-03-14
At the southern coast
of my eye, a pink tide rolls
into the steel blue
of my eye, a pink tide rolls
into the steel blue
12-02-14
Man mutters "oh shit"
while checking his phone on the
morning train to work
12-01-14
Correspondences,
Please know I love you dearly
despite time's grievance.
11-30-14
Oysters and laundry
mark the highlights of the day
Mellow and milquetoast
11-29-14
Frigid winds wailing
in the cracks of woolen cloth
chill the living flesh
11-28-14
Second Thanksgiving
with all the classic fixings
Max Deliciousness!
11-27-14
Ambient lapping
tickles the pale white bellies
of the docked rowboats
11-26-14
Buzzed at one o'clock
Vacation vibes coming in
Down the brainstorm wire
11-25-14
Bathed in peach streetlight
a shadow-faced child shifts weight
on uncertain legs
11-24-14
Started listening
to the Serial podcast.
Recommend for all!
11-23-14
Registering for
wedding gifts is both taxing
and quite baffling.
11-22-14
A beautiful day
to be out celebrating
another great year!
11-21-14
Quiet chills quiver
to the crests of mountains
that tower the vale.
11-20-14
High-octane planning
with spreadsheets and calendars:
Adulthood Funtime!
11-19-14
Whistling earth breath
rages through the steel pylon
ribs of the scraper.
11-18-14
Knotty little lump
at the crest of my left thigh
will bloom to a bruise
11-17-14
Mediative silence
permeates the core membrane
and stops the bleeding
11-16-14
Return to Minecraft:
A lesson in the dangers
of game addiction
11-15-14
Celestial ball
blasts fusion emissions out
to her followers.
11-14-14
There's something scary
about driving to the end
of a narrow pier
11-13-14
Soothing tones and tea
in the mind's sanctuary
create a peace guise
11-12-14
Considering scope
and the distant grappling
of comets in space
11-11-14
Plucking the mind grapes
to slurry into purple
contemplative mash
11-10-14
Radically transformed
From misfit into maven
In one twitchy blink
11-09-14
5 margaritas
way too much guacamole
We need to pass out
11-08-14
Dozens of board games
Ouzo shots from the Owl Bar
Saturday Night Fun!
11-07-14
There's too many cooks,
like in a silent movie
no one can hear you
11-06-14
Biting rain and wind
saturates while I run blind
in the bleary night
11-05-14
Drifting limbs over
the tops of upholstered seats
to take in the pleats
11-04-14
Cigarette smells waft
out from lonely brick alcoves
waking vice longings
11-03-14
Sunshine pierces the
crisp, bleary chill of shimmering
pre-winter gustings
11-02-14
Lone bag of Sun Chips
placed neatly on a park bench
during my dusk run.
11-01-14
I dreamed of scaling
the cracked, weathered hull of the
Titanic last night
10-31-14
Sifting through pumpkin guts
to get to slimy white pips.
Seed roast Smorgasbord!
10-30-14
Sweet bubbles and acrid
ferment tingle with smoky hues:
Fall Beer Fantastic!
10-29-14
Hunkered, his bulk bent,
the snarling monstrosity
prepares for the charge.
10-28-14
Feral animals
lap honey from my earlobes
while simpletons gape
10-27-14
The bowed phone gazers
sway like doleful reeds perched on
the edge of a pond.
10-26-14
Played the Quiet Year,
a cartography based game,
with theater friends!
10-25-14
Toiling at the stove:
Vegetarian Scotch Eggs
for all the masses!
10-24-14
Magic wearing off
in the mystic pink foldings
under hair and skin
10-23-14
Older man on train
keeps smacking his mouth to make
wet porridge noises
10-22-14
Wallet lost, rain pours
as I run on, cold and wet,
with my plasma veins.
10-21-14
Little victories
in organizing spreadsheets
energize the day
10-20-14
Supervisor wrath,
a force of red-faced malice,
spurs playground echoes
10-19-14
Watching the clouds pass
from the middle U-Haul seat
contemplating ends
10-18-14
Sweat, make-up, laughter
dust, tears, crashes, shadows, light
Flashes of the month
10-17-14
Kuehn left to run the
Baltimore Half-Marathon.
I'm so proud of her!
10-16-14
Foreboding thrums beat
out in the graying city
under construction
10-15-14
Our show was cancelled
due to a freak lighting surge.
Supremely saddened.
10-14-14
Closeness on the train
dupes the mind into feeling
intimacy there.
10-13-14
Tikka masala
made with chickpeas is freaking
super delicious
10-12-14
Gripping the seat's edge,
the passenger bites her lip
and prays for reprieve.
10-11-14
Five shows this weekend
and the neurons fry full blast
I smell the sizzle
10-10-14
Halogen bathes dank
spaces in ultraviolet
sheens of pale sickness
10-09-14
Girl attempts to light
a cigarette while on bike
nearly eats asphalt
10-08-14
Electrodes attached
to my temple and neck shoot
energizer vibes
10-07-14
Painy, crampy haze
shrouds my syncopated funk
post booze revelry.
10-06-14
My utterances
waft about electronically
a cognizant buzz
10-05-14
Stern browed, steely eyed
The master stakes his resolve
on the crimson dusk
10-04-14
Sweat drenched twice today
Red noses and colorful
Ruffles abounding
10-03-14
Anticipating
a sudden jolt of lightning
to strike the system
10-02-14
181 Harvard
reunited for O's game.
Rampent nostalgia.
10-01-14
Interrupted streams
of pressing notions billow
under bloodshot eyes
09-30-14
Uniform gray sky
looms, while flecks of rain kiss cheeks
on a fall morning.
09-29-14
I stand, plumb and glazed,
at the foot of a great dock
at the foot of a great dock
and gasp the lake mist.
09-28-14
Masked by sunglasses
The hordes suck through long green straws
dredges of sweet fuel
09-27-14
Vomit on the floor
of the evening train, driver
claims the mess is soup
09-26-14
Inertial forces
make a spilled cup of coffee
ebb the C Line floor.
09-25-14
Stomach and body
pulse the pain of exhaustion
There's light at the end.
09-24-14
Replaced sink strainer
and reconstructed bed frame.
Father would be proud.
09-23-14
Reading that stress kills
stresses me out a whole bunch.
I'm going to die.
09-22-14
Throat chords scratch open
Revealing black notes with tails
Pouring song creatures
09-21-14
Painting and posters
Ladders up to the rigging
First day of tech week.
09-20-14
Cold deep in the bones
Fever shivers without heat
I feel like a ghost
09-18-14
Strip down in bathroom
Dabbing body with TP
My post-run "shower"
09-17-14
I slept on the couch
after a junk food binging.
Partner-less I flail.
09-16-14
Inhaled a whole tray
of biscuits last night in haste.
Stomach not happy.
09-15-14
The Skeleton Man
returns in time for fall chill
and runs unabashed.
09-14-14
I'm meditating
While children scream below me
This Sunday is strange
While children scream below me
This Sunday is strange
09-13-14
Mouse in the cupboard
Leaping out from the rice shelf
Terror of the house
09-12-14
Electric tingle
pulsing the human chemtrail
on the skin's surface
09-11-14
Donuts in break room.
Had to be the day I choose
to not eat junk food.
Had to be the day I choose
to not eat junk food.
09-10-14
The juices flowing
to the brainpan surge light green
Radioactive
to the brainpan surge light green
Radioactive
09-09-14
Fire ants crawling up
limbs as he takes one big step
off the desert cliff
09-08-14
Sunset on city
A calm sets among the crowd
Could get used to this
A calm sets among the crowd
Could get used to this
09-07-14
Flooded by the scope
of things to come, I swim and
glide above the waves.
09-06-14
First meat in a week
freezer burned turkey bacon
Heaven Incarnate
freezer burned turkey bacon
Heaven Incarnate
09-05-14
Phasing in and out
of my reality planes
is tiresome work
09-04-14
Pacing and waiting
That is the theme of today
Pacing and waiting
09-03-14
Formatting the blog
on the screen of my phone is
Infuriating
09-02-14
Return to normal
in a new kind of normal
is weirdly normal
09-01-14
Boston's been taxing
but the friends who helped us move
Made it worth it all
but the friends who helped us move
Made it worth it all
08-31-14
100 miles ran
over the month of August
Sore, tired and proud
08-30-14
The hulking beast wakes,
adjusts his human skin quilt,
and falls back asleep.
08-29-14
Bizarre day, traversing
a conscious realm unfettered
with bleary sight-lines
08-28-14
Rehearsal cancelled
The gift of time restored to
a haggard young man
08-27-14
Artificial and
muted is my state due to
fluorescent lighting
08-26-14
Blank walls leer about
boxes full of precious things
anxious for a home
boxes full of precious things
anxious for a home
08-25-14
Laid down in the park
out behind the Prudential
small birds gathered close
out behind the Prudential
small birds gathered close
08-24-14
Perpetual Rage
Emotion migraine spiral
Deaf Dumb Exhaustion
08-23-14
Concentrate on this
single brief sliver of time
remember to breathe
08-22-14
Full gorgeous clamor
embraced the ritual eyes
my moonlight villain
08-21-14
Coffee bites severe
on ropy retinal nerves
itchy at the base
08-20-14
Sprinting through the trees
scattered shadows fragment light
on my primal gait
scattered shadows fragment light
on my primal gait
08-19-14
Couple walking slow
speaking Chinese, quick and short,
taking in the town
speaking Chinese, quick and short,
taking in the town
08-18-14
The slickness of bone
cuts tiny shards in muscles
too bulky to bare
08-17-14
Child wearing crocs
Inquires about oncoming
Train. Gets no answer.
Inquires about oncoming
Train. Gets no answer.
08-16-14
Stomach pains sharpen
in an effort to provide
my self with good fuel
08-15-14
Watching the Birdcage
After finishing Derek
So much forgiveness
08-14-14
At "The Squealing Pig"
(a pub near Emily's work)
Ye Olde Timey Place
(a pub near Emily's work)
Ye Olde Timey Place
08-13-14
Wine and pierogis
after a psychotic day
The comforts of home
08-12-14
Careening through clouds
the wide-eyed martians brace for
watery impact
08-11-14
I am the flayed man,
Back peeled open in red blooms,
Raw as my birthday
08-10-14
Blood moon, translucent,
rises at dusk over town.
Photographers flock.
08-09-14
Loose coils, sprawled and strewn
from foot to coverlet yarn
traces my progress
08-08-14
Alleviating
Telecommunication
Infatuation
08-07-14
An Arkansas man
shared pictures of his triplets,
Lawyer convention
08-06-14
Each and every day
brings more pain and suffering
What a cheery thought!
brings more pain and suffering
What a cheery thought!
08-05-14
Gulps of breath
filled with heavy, putrid air:
Running on trash day.
08-04-14
Running at six sharp
Listening to ghost stories
Curse my howling thighs
08-03-14
Half-moon shines over
the silhouetted churches
of downtown Brookline
08-02-14
Scattered rose petals
at the base of a park bench.
Romance's remnants.
08-01-14
Co-worker's daughter
A three year old beam of sun
with unbridled joy
07-31-14
Duskwalkers prowl on
and holler through my window
emphatic curses
07-30-14
Drunk and running fast
I leap down a flight of stairs
Ankle nearly breaks
07-29-14
Armpits shoved in faces
Shifty eye contact thriving
Morning on the T
07-28-14
Some old friends came down.
Now caught in a wash of a
Strange kind of homesick
07-27-14
The Michigan clouds
bring darkness and rolling black
to the marshy flats.
07-26-14
Saw wedding venue
for the first time today and
I'm so excited!
07-25-14
Drinking at beerfest
I feel the slog of poison
Happy Happy Hap.
07-24-14
Delays in travel
My patience is iron-clad
Time is on my side
07-23-14
With clear skies, let's get
preparations underway
for travel once more.
07-22-14
Billowing stresses
sweep up throats and eyeballs with
the tightness of knots
07-21-14
Today I made an
enchilada casserole.
It was quite filling.
07-20-14
Red nails and migas,
Peach/plum cobbler and Dixit,
Game night is afoot.
07-19-14
Beautiful lakehouse
built in the 1940's
Pure relaxation
07-18-14
The importance of
a table can't be cherished
until you make one
07-17-14
Hawks out my window
soaring over Prudential
surveying tourists.
07-16-14
Lifting furniture
Up and down the flights of stairs
A premonition
07-15-14
It's becoming hard
to think up something to say
for every haiku.
07-14-14
Fever from no sleep
but consciousness, she persists.
Eyes, Y U no shut?
07-13-14
I ate a deep fried
hot dog in downtown Brighton.
Michigan Living!
07-12-14
It's not every day
you can drink whiskey bought by
two four star gen'rals
07-11-14
Loopy from no sleep,
trying to remember names
is an uphill fight
07-10-14
Bought a potato
Before going to a bar
It gladly joined me
07-09-14
Push-ups in the cube
Keep grunts to a minimum
And do them quickly!
07-08-14
old ladies tumble
rehearsals push to the grotesque
spitting out the spite
07-07-14
The fruit flies gather
where the sweet foods go to rot.
Trap all dem' sucka's
07-06-14
Sweating on the stoop
Should have remembered my keys
Apartment Lockout
07-05-14
Flecks of spit on face
Dude screams through beer soaked lenses
I laugh quietly
07-04-14
Given cashews and
swedish fish for my birthday.
No impulse control.
07-03-14
Forces collide in
wild pressure fluctuations
and the cool rains come
07-02-14
Heat, thick with promise,
cascades the concrete city.
Torrents Immanent
07-01-14
Spent a day printing
and clipping payroll reports.
Fingers Paper-cut
06-30-14
Blink! Itching eyeballs
Tense, in focus, gazing out
Fogs are lifting soon
06-29-14
Wheezing lightning strikes
and sizzles the marrow of
my thick bone hallows
06-28-14
Paint lines wavering
where the ceiling meets the wall.
I notice these things.
06-27-14
Northeastern sunset
Golds and purples over bay
Sailboats glide shining
06-26-14
Stirring in the dark
I throw the sheets off and sweat
Summer has begun
06-25-14
27 years
old, I find myself wanting
good beer and nachos
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