learning to breathe
I'm learning to breathe again but it's painful. when I breathe I feel the pressure of my sorrow the weight of 10,000 uncried tears. when I breathe I feel the power of my shame a jagged chunk of black...
View Articlespirituality without gods
spirituality is connection compassion creativity it’s the courage to be truthful with oneself and with others to see the pain in oneself and in others and to honor that pain whatever its cause its...
View Articlein the morning mirror
in the morning mirror the sleepless dreamless darkness my body shows myself to me ... my shoulders are connected to my head my arms come out of my ears my legs come out of my back my hands come out of...
View Articleeaster
in this dream I'm looking at an old family photo 25-year-old black + white mother father brother + me the classic easter pose in the yard outside grandpa + grandma's house my focus is on my dad he's so...
View Articlemother junkie
mother junkie has found a new fix lonely + desperate sick of trying tired of waiting this is the one. no second thoughts he takes her straight in straight into his veins straight into his bones a...
View Articledown time
today is the first day of what's left of my life today is the last day of the dead man's journey. today I don't poison myself for a pension today I don't soil my spirit today I don't split my soul....
View Articlecommerce of god
the rammer the fall the voltage our genetic code our technician. the function the knowledge the development the awakening human being of the universe. history justice love god the method the concepts...
View ArticleStrange freedom
Three days ago, I left a long-time job that had begun to damage my health and was already well on its way to destroying my spirit. The decision to leave wasn’t impulsive and it wasn’t easy, but...
View Articlestranded in the ashes
stranded in the ashes stumbling in fear identity anxiety nervous riddle dreams. I need to hang on to something I need to let go of something but I don't know which is which. part of me wants to sleep...
View ArticlePoetry on video: “falling through”
Today’s poem on video, “falling through”, is from my upcoming book Scapegoat’s Cross: Poems about Finding and Reclaiming the Lost Man Within. The subject of today’s poem is grief, or more to the...
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distraction
I’ve posted several pieces of art this week and I’ve had something to say about all of them, but this one just seems to defy words. There were several others I really wanted to post today instead, but...
View Articletears never cried
what happens to all the tears I never cried where did they go have I transformed them into something else absorbed them into my body somehow or have I been saving them up somewhere in some secret place...
View Articlemidlife timeslap
mister know-it-all is finally getting a clue the former smartest guy in the room is receiving his wake-up call the so-called genius who thought he was gonna save the world is beginning to realize that...
View Articlein ptsd
my homeless child is in a panic my scapegoat waif is running wild the birds are falling out of my sky I wait to be judged by the queen of the slums. (PDF version)
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virus
a liquid black cloud spreads its fingers across the family sky like ink from a squid filling an aquarium tank blotting out the sun turning everyone and everything the color of a funeral shadow blue. a...
View Articledead man tears
dead man tears fill my mouth dead man breath clouds my eyes. heartsick heartbeat laughing banshees hollow haunted house primed to burst. (PDF version)
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Falling through: One man’s fear of feeling
I’m making my first appearance today as a guest blogger on Jungian author Jean Raffa’s blog with a video poem and commentary titled “Falling Through: One Man’s Fear of Feeling” about my fear of...
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Unhiding myself
1. Wounded wonder boy I’m having a hard time trying to communicate with a teenage boy I know. He’s smart, sensitive, idealistic, fiery, and full of potential. He’s also been wounded and traumatized...
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Poem of the Issue – Austin Chronicle 03/01/13
My poem “in ptsd” is the featured “Poem of the Issue” in this week’s edition of The Austin Chronicle.
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anxiety
I hAvEN’T posTEd ANY of mY owN ArT hErE oN ThE blog IN AlmosT Two YEArs. I AlwAYs fINd mYsElf wANTINg To wrITE somEThINg To go wITh ThE ArT buT gENErAllY doN’T kNow whAT To sAY, so ThEN I ENd up NoT...
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