Fragments

What you want to know is
did it sting? much?
OK, yes
it stung
the blood beading up like pearls
OK, more like rubies
there's virtue in descriptive accuracy
always and
the wound itself, the welt?
it bled
open mouthed in astonishment
a martyr's part
a red sea bejeweled but~~
no Savior here
no Moses
no chosen ones to cross
only me, leading myself
fumbling, ecstatic
'cross that dead, dead sea.

March 2004/tg

a spell i cast
crawling
fumes behind me
& they licked & fed eagerly
small contained blue belches
yellow hearts, centered
my breath
fierce peppermint
And my head sang lullabies
& I pondered & fractured
the mysteries
of living & laughing
& thumbing my nose
at the dead

Feb 2004/tg

Circumspect
(Discard a glance; one word
knees scraped; I'd beg)
Silence
(time pricked me so I bled out)
Incessant
(me here; alone)
(al) most formidable
(myheart swells~~> I'd smile through poison)
for just a taste... taste
of you instead.

Feb 2004/tg

One can see the tolerance levels ticking down behind her eyes with all the discretion of discarded ammunition.

Nov/2003 tg

I stand by the kitchen window
and as the clock completes its lazy swing
I see voices spilling out cold (vapored plumes)
bred/bored with all that laughter I can't hear.

Nov 1986/tg

She hates orange; abhors red
loves yellow
which is only the two diluted.

Oct 2003/tg

mental babble
psycho chatter
see it/hear it/race you near it
tender touchy tasty? chew it
love it hate it danger? screw it
incoherent bruised & battered
choose it use it lose delusion
made to order over easy
off the menu (this sincerely)
~~ a recipe to carve & serve a
Shake N Bake soul.
leap it/ clear it/ fall in? deal with it...
the one who does the flying?
the same as digs the hole.

Jan 1997/tg

every reject
every not-that-good; not-so-special
set of words; strung out
flawed pearls belched self-consciously
(marked; tattooed)
set apart and those
wide wavy x's reeling, sweating
in the silent gesticulation of swastikas.

Nov 2003/tg

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