August Smith
In line at the grocery store a baby stared at me maybe because of my orange facial hair or my green hat loud under bad fluorescents...
In line at the grocery store a baby stared at me maybe because of my orange facial hair or my green hat loud under bad fluorescents...
after he collapses on top of me & rolls off something pours out of me like a life force but it’s a replenishable resource I’m dying...
Nothing is absolute The sun reflects everything Even itself And my memory of your hands has limits...
and the piano ravel composes and the presence of other bodies crowd heavily against me...
we will never be loved as by the flies you and I, spread bone naked over pillows. How they hover, the lovers...
We come here when pizza night becomes every night. We come here to pretend that nights off are special. Most of my nights are off. I swill my ice water around....
God is the icy water you splash on your face in the morning. God is the blonde hair you keep finding around your room, whose owner you are having trouble identifying....
I remember this one bonfire. The party dwindled. Soon, it was just me, Mike, and Jane left by the fire. And not ten minutes after we sat back down,...
I didn’t trust you, so I let your lips touch mine, and I took your words from your mouth....
At a café full of up-and-coming Mexicans, we drank Coca-Colas out of glass bottles. Lips fit snug on rims, a pleasing kind of bottle BJ. ...
After a night of quasi-bloody knuckles, and red-rimmed eyes I am in the mood for blue-green, for cerebral coasts;...
We walked over because of Sherry and Mark’s cats. They needed to be fed. Watered. Some attention. They'd been alone for days....