Autistic Genius

a 5 year old girl that can’t speak

are you sure you know what talent is

is this child damaged?

who is closed minded?

White Squall

Sudden pouring of rain from a moving cloud

Postcard stamps she said..huh that’s odd

What makes twenty year olds kiss manically in public?

Apples/Corndogs/Champagne nonsense curiosities

Down Under Bug

Ditaxis biseriata is a name that describes

spikes on this non mantid’s femur and maybe

having two cutting mouthparts for predation

What would they call you if an entomologist

got a look at your body parts in a taxonomic way?

Densacapollos tortonaso or cutie pie

Reality Rides

You will be completely uncomfortable,

shakes you until your brain rams up against

your skull and the nightmares that people

avert their eyes from are echoing HELP ME

Deadened

Judge not the emotional pain that plagues

some of the brightest humans I have ever met

The miracle of  having a substance that appears

to take the most painful part away. That is to care.

Which Came First?

People who want to kill themselves drink?

Drunks end up wanting to jump off a building?

Not your usual comic perspective into

neglectful mother, molesting teacher

Dark humor as a survival mechanism.

A Bosque House

The Russian Olive tress smell like my mother’s pantry

with all of the spices and herbs mingling together

chamisa, a bright yellow stoop for an autumn walk

on a floor covered in oriental rugs of purple sage

climbing a staircase,  lizards faster than a blink

beaches make porches to view from

muddy shoes and wet dogs in the yard to dry

A Place to Leave a Past

She drove and I picked out the music to accompany,

so many trips along this road with so many others

sometimes the story came out just to get it out of my

head, then many times biting my lip to not speak

of that time and that person from the past, finally

looking down into the gorge to leave all of it behind.

Unmatched

Those first few years talisman kept the unfit

from distracting hormonal urges to repeat

fool hardy couplings that barely satisfied,

an hour later hungering for cold leftovers

Singapore

These copper covered raindrops move by a

computer, choreographing kinetic energy above

the heads of airport passengers looking up on

their escalator ride through moving masses of people