1. ALUMINUM BRANCHES

Nativity trio, plastic orchids
Primary colors blink, hum in and out
Stagnate spinning around.
Angel voices, no curtains now
I swear I hear angel voices on the couch
Please seizures foaming jester jaw
Possession, plugged in palm lines
Ornaments. Pink glass rounding reflection.
Body kissing
TV spirits hovering over me
Like cracking eggs. Licking the oil off my body
Tar bedtime, positive discipline
Let’s stitch ourselves together


2. THE COLOR OF A DOG

Tell me tell me tell me
To plot. To take another drink
Plastic straw packaging hovering across the ground
Hives again, back pain
Gold flaking, painting my appendages again
Wait for it. It will be short term
Headache starburst striking pains
I don’t report lying. Tell me what was prescribed?
All the orange canisters lined up
In wonderland trying to find medicine
You don’t know which one is which
Candles flickering around a flopping fish
I lay on the floor. I can’t breathe
Stress pixies get me


3. INNER CONTROLLER (LUCID RUNNING HOME)

I can be in many places
Gather of treasures
Why don’t you turn and face me?
Pool of slumber water
Lily pads. Sixteen swans peck at the ripples
Headless demon. The next cycle
A cosmic dress. I’m sleeping on the universe
Total annihilation
Cutting at the neck
Blood essence. Order in the world now
Possessions
A bow tied around the hair you let me cut
(Delusions) Black out (Arrogance) Black out
(Delusions) Watercolor (Arrogance) Blue Skin


4. CUSP

Cooks playground, ripped streamers
Bricks laying stacked, corroded skate shoes
Shoelace belt kicking Catholic statues
You and I under the rice paper lantern
Middle-aged man handing out tangerine bibles
Terrorized, twisting
Needing to lay like an animal on hay
Be my bed be my bed be my bed
Unexpected, it slashes the dirt
1950’s sweater
Dripping fluids, utter the word
Nourished, permeate, it dwells within
You locked your bike to mine
You walked me home from school
I never got my clothes back from the police


5. 12-22-09

We look around separately
Video lights
I feel as if time has sped up on purpose
Starting right here. Spells of cold stone
I want to build our house
Clever warfare, you and me
Kin
Good posture breaking my spine
A new high, standing unarmed
My blood runs on your rocks
Long love climbing to blossom in the thaw
There’s nothing I can do
Let me give my brain a bath
A name means nothing
Virgo structure, quiet eyes
Our group divides into several parts
I’m an avalanche hopelessly singing


6. LISTENING EAR

Spider veins are showing up
As our grandparents die
Spinning on a carousel
While a mask cries
Sanity is meaningless
Sliced cellulite
Keepsakes that I love
But do they have meaning?
Property owning life
Storyteller
I’m scared to call the doctor


7. SHEPHERD

Untethered singing cage songs
Pathos grow up and out of me
I can write
Bleeding, bleeding
Rogue phenomenon
Transmission inside of me
Physically leading the flock
Seduced by Jupiter, tone and spirit
Spit near death, spit liquid
Painstakingly paranormal
Sexual halo golden
Thrown to the ground
She’s a six-petaled flower
Can you see what I see?


8. IMAGING ORDER

Five trees cut in half, tumble away crying sap
Enlightened void circled in rings, no other truth
Chrysanthemum collecting
Destroyed destroyed destroyed
Blue light glass. I wish I could break into my face
Caught up, loosen up, come on. Too tight to talk
Tough collar always washing
Get up, lay down, no matter the death,
You stand the same
It was always you. It wouldn’t be me
I dance to rehearse my mortality
Pick and poke. Gossip. True pain
Patio brick, wind blows the chairs
Where is the snow?
Dip my toes. Splinter dock.
Let’s be in my brain
On the lake


9. PERSOCOM

Homecoming king. What does she taste like?
A mold. Cosplay Princess.
Laying alone. Mommy fleece
Pleasure panic wheeled down
Brain still functioning. She doesn’t speak
He yells “I haven’t given her a voice”
A knife laying side by side. Bendable
Rejection. Reject. Pathetic.
Come on lovebird
Hanging in the dark devoid of empathy
Mining the soul of femininity
Replace the vessel. Soulless putrescence
Keep it clean. The thick plastic, faux flesh Goodwill dress
Sequin disco light. Gun to temple
“I’ll never get a date”


10. PORCELAIN BOAT

Wading in a shallow bathtub. Scrunched legs
Black mold my landlord never fixes
Head underwater. Safe at last
Epsom salt itches. My eyes concaving. To letting go
The dip soft spot, twisting into myself
Thigh light heart. Closed not open
A door built at my core
Harlequin mirror. A pit engulfed in flames
Seeing someone I don’t recognize
How much more of this can I take?
The secret place. Ultraviolet. Come closer ascent
I want to be lost but I’m so connected
Canine hair, camouflaged sheet
Trying to sleep. Trying always to sleep
Macy’s nails touch my rose-scented skin
Mermaid thrust
I capture the ocean in a cherub-painted cup
I’m awake. I’m always awake


11. KALEIDOSCOPE

The crowd. The impact.
The car tumbling into the wall
Faintly she heard them coming.
Spinning wheels movement
Where had they been before?
Black alley, a high-tension tower
Feathery touch. Frozen expressions
Of red and purple half-down eyelids
I want to know my fortune
Breathing heavy, fluttering in the breeze
Hell is overflowing
I’ve caught a shooting star
“Mycale, gift me the moon.”
The spirit will answer you
“I cannot grant your request
because they abandoned the sense of choice”


12. RIBBON BOOT

You found four leaves
Collected everything. Gem stamped
Snow outside the building
Finally falling. Finally it’s here
Summoning weapons.
Freefalling from the air
Closed off excellent
“They are gorgeous and funny”
Spinning on a rotating plant
Show him the sign, ripping the shirt
Trapped here forever
A secret duet. A song only the birds know
Is it homicidal? Is it violent?
How will you ever know if you don’t let it out?
Clovers picked and kept in plastic
Chilling isolation. If only we could meet
I can pick up the tiniest sounds


13. CORSET

Midnight blue
It's time to let me float away
Crushed concaving in
Like a child’s hand pushing through sand
Running from my own life
It's calling now. It’s time to go
Reveling at the altar. Worship
Tools in a box. Knees to wood
Watching red hair drape over the side
Arched back, judged perfection
Fools standing in a line
Taking blood and oxygen to the brain
Sip lilies, wings expand
Butterfly exhibit // Alkaline hydrolysis


14. URSITORY

Underwater less than an hour
Avoiding eye contact
White pumpkin Mastercard
A manicured hand tap
I didn’t give permission.
Generations of circles
Hot to the touch. Completely engulfed
I need you. You can’t leave
I’ve gotta quit this job
Braided hair trinity
Blonde to brunette back to red again
Taking pills of placenta
A baby handed to me
Which one is momma
You don’t work for free


15. BABAHAZ

It's hot in this new place
My lips drip and swell
A little light. A little window
Drawing the shades. Paint-chipped clasp
I can feel something watching me
Feline or a head monster
Burlap zipper. My favorite Nightbreed
The moon shades him in a hollow tree
This cold place. Hearing twigs crack
Heaven again coming to me
Nightmare cloud which I caress
Alone in my own bed
Bricks fall and clank
Apocalyptic windchime
Violet walls become taller and grow as I slip
“This poison garden has me forever”
How much time do we have?
Swinging crystal, show me where the trouble is
The clock resets