Indie Poetry

Poems

• Lies
  5 am and I’m crying when I wake. Metaphor’s tooContinue reading “Lies”
• The 30 Year Locust
  I. Relapse Winter now. Cicada nymphs sleep In little cryptsContinue reading “The 30 Year Locust”
• Crickets
  The crickets are chirping. It’s still early afternoon. Between theContinue reading “Crickets”
• Inherent
  I am woman. I am Earth. From lava I wasContinue reading “Inherent”
• Dunedin
  My satin slip, your pink shorts, One Cymbeline afternoon. YetContinue reading “Dunedin”
• Seaworthy
  For thirty years I rode this ship, retching off theContinue reading “Seaworthy”
• Homecoming
  She was a serpent, my wrathful heart. Her door, anContinue reading “Homecoming”
• Knoxville
  A bundle of barbed wire abandoned in the middle ofContinue reading “Knoxville”
• Beach Wedding
  In my dream, You told me she and what’s-his-name WereContinue reading “Beach Wedding”
• Sparks Above the District
  Cigarette ends omit an amberesque glow Barely bright enough toContinue reading “Sparks Above the District”
• This Website is a Crime Scene
  This first thing you notice when you enter Is theContinue reading “This Website is a Crime Scene”
• Humanus ex Machina
  My Byronic hero was a bionic man. His steam poweredContinue reading “Humanus ex Machina”
• Summer’s End
  September greets me with intricate webs Woven diagonally from theContinue reading “Summer’s End”
• Parasitophilia
  Someone kept stealing his bicycles, So he covets things thatContinue reading “Parasitophilia”
• Try, Try, Try
  The gymnast tears muscles and grows them back stronger. TheContinue reading “Try, Try, Try”
• Gunslinger
  “Don’t go in guns a-blazing” Good advice. But it’s inContinue reading “Gunslinger”
• The Dog Dies
  “I trust you” Decadent words. Like food offered, gently ToContinue reading “The Dog Dies”