fringe selvedges

the loose end of poetry

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Proof on Main

Wondering, wholly Interested By the fracture – Of a wish Assembled slowly And arrogantly Inside a painters – Delicate, dark swish. Louisville, KY – February, 2018

Air

I sleep, awake Where I cannot Just break The now, in omnipresent The present, so effervescent That it shatters The pretense Of my fake. Garcia Ranch, Vero Beach, Fl – February 2018

Refined

I can’t mind, my outside That speaks, To its sin Without breaking My Human That screams, From within. Manhattan, NY – February, 2018

sKill

Breaking through The pain, of you Defends its anger Into – A fearful knowledge Of the now, That’s true. Windham, NY – January, 2018

Folsom Two

Smothered – Dark and cold In the rigid pinch Between now, And old. San Francisco, CA – January 2018

Stella

The crossroads, of anger The sadness, of hate The wish, for forgiveness When alone – With your fate. Grand Rapids, MI – December, 2017

Slide

I seek dark direction Coming not, from inside But the visceral, reaction To the now, in my stride. New York, NY – November, 2017

De Los Caballeros

Marking us quickly We run back, To the end In a race, to revert To our hope Of pretend. Santiago, DR – November, 2017

Ismailia

Drifting – In the waters of history In a cradle, of clarity And through the breeze Of life’s, enduring mystery. Cairo, Egypt – November, 2017

20 gauge

Driving through a field Where my soul – Becomes insane I wake to see the earth In the whole – Re-birthed from pain. Nicholson’s Island, Ontario – November, 2017