it takes confidence to say you are not
to say i had it there but now it’s forgot
it take courage to put your hand up
and say,
i am not coping

it is too bad,
you cannot undo the past
what is said is done
what is felt has had its moment

Settle In let me settle in to the flowing river the handgun at my shoulder i am scared i will…

I Saw Clouds i saw clouds make a meal of the day they stole a friend i hoped to save…

they cut out the gravel
and deployed my feelings
we shake the trees
without the leaves

i saw windowless frames –
in the past –
that once had no name
i saw answers in the sea

i drowned in a dirty folk song
the one that washed up on the shore
as we broke bread
with a welcoming whore

can i not take about the things –
that plunder me?
the comments,
that dig out my pain