Sonnets

Who said sonnets were cool? And who said a poem that’s fourteen lines long is a sonnet? I’m not sure, but I hope nobody notices how amateur these ones are.

Stars In His Heart

he was the star that floated in water, lacking space (& she was an astronomer in hawaii, or in lower case (she’s the satellite’s document of a dreamy eclipse (he’s like a word once lost, now formed by her lips…

Amerika

He was a jealous husband without a wife. I needed security and he gave me bullets to rain down upon those discreet affairs (which came, and passed. We settled in to our familiar routine: me with my cat and he…

Wachtwoorden

One day I’ll delete all of my passwords, all those hard to remember combinations of numbers and letters, and replace them with various names I’ve made up for you. That way, I’ll never forget my passwords again, and every time…

De Kraai en het Paard

I am the crow! Sitting on the horse’s head! Listen to me, bloated fields! Hark, ye old windmills and lanes! I’m a children’s story book! Hey, black wings! Scary rainbow oils! I am the snow! Waiting for the sun to…

Telefoon

I’m eating your voice like it’s sugar and it is: raw brown sugar on a spoon. The phone is a spoon. Your voice is inside the phone. I’m inside your rainbows, ice. I hear beeps (the time runs out and…

Jippie De Pippie!

Nobody knows. Nobody knows what it means. Jippie! We can speak freely here. Speak. I’ll send you desires in the mail. We’ll end up somewhere between the stars. It’s making me crazy. It’s beyond real. Smile. The world’s a mirror.…

Een Beetje Gek

Her toenail polish is chipped and I love it. She’s doing that crazy dance and it’s cool. I’m feeling dizzy, not sure if she’s real. But she is and she’s crazy and yes so am I. I mean, a little…

Gelukkig

I follow the story-lines of your hair in photographs. Tracing the sources of stream tendrils. Making my way back to the original kiss. Asking the universe to contract. Let’s reserve a table in a future restaurant. An advertisement in a…