Un known

I seek the unknown and chase what I cannot name into the darkness, I chase it into drunkenness and beyond despair No matter how hard I search it eludes me it escapes me No matter how many legs spread wide or the number of smiles I see Kind, loving words or sharp tongued barbs I …

Tour of Duty

I lost my innocence one night in September of 1987. The television screen was blank, through the speakers came the sound of a lone guitar and static, drums began to beat and I saw the jungle. “Paint it, Black” began and I knew war, a concept I could never have thought of on my own …

Time

Tuesday tries tenaciously to take trips to Thursday but today triumphantly tackles the transportation of time. Taking tomorrow’s trials to task, the tender tick- tocking turns toward tragedy.

Tinkerbell

Three were light green, one was red, and the last one was bright yellow. They were all different shapes and sizes. Around the red plastic cone they huddle together, gravity keeping them close. They glisten with moisture and I see the indentations that have collected the wetness as if it were a prize. The white …

Tightness

I slip inside two in a sitting, and feel the tightness engulf me touch me in all the right places. Conforming to my flesh and encasing me entirely. I like it best before they are worn out, before they cannot grip like fresh ones. I need them tight and untouched fresh from the drawer I …

Third Movement

It falls from the late, grey winter sky, first a few drops, then finally in sheets. The rain falls, relentlessly, for days on end with all too brief pauses, just long enough for a lone cat caught under the car to be driven back to the safety beneath a house. There are people caught in …