making room
the photos came down
she disappeared
except in my inbox
in my dreams she
hates me in my
home she is gone
do we still speak?
you ask
i don’t want to speak
i want your skin
you are inside my
rooms you take up
space you have three
dimensions i don’t
want stillness i
don’t want speaking
come here now your
worry is an air-filled
globe but your body
is the actual the earth
it’s the earth i want
not photos not maps
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how to start the affair
pay for the hostel
in cash
for the hostel
in cash
pay for
one night
or one hour
your best bet
is a brief wager
no
your best bet
is to cash out
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praying twice
when i sing i don’t know where it goes
except out
it goes out for cigarettes
out for a drink
for blood
it’s not for god
the peace that passes all understanding
out of my body then
out of my life
sing your sorrows, they say
it’s like praying twice
i don’t know where it goes
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the wound
the first time I took you
home
I wanted
you
to love
yourself—
you were a wide open well
and I was salt
bags and bags of
salt
rubbing
dissolving
I could have
melted ice
barricaded floods
I had all the ingredients and
packaging but
I wasn’t anything
in your body
rubbing
dissolving
just salt
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my lover shaves his face
I named his stubble
he attended to stubble
I roll, watch from the dark
he razored the shadow
two o’clock in the morning
Jesus is the rock and he rolls
my blues away. Close shave
back in bed, smooth skin
slipping in. Stubble said,
done. My blues away
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SPOKANE SHOCKS
they say we have a football team now
the shocks
go shocks!
but then they say
“we’re having a nice spring”
i’m outside the we
53º
they say your social security number
tells where you’re born
9:27 PM 4/13
deaconess hospital
i still root for the home team
if we don’t win it’s a shame
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i never liked football
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