Jesse Writes
Dispatches from a Breakfast Joint # 117
small brown bird sings top 40 hits through plate glass
Dispatches from a Breakfast Joint # 115
the dishwasher sits at the bar phone chimes, finger scrolls Over-hydrated skin wrinkled A white VW pulls up, top down, ZZ top beard...
Dispatches from a Breakfast Joint # 113
coffee, water, any drinks? grin preceeds, glance table-wise budwiser I am so sorry, not until 11 11? Alright, coffee miss
Poem Knows
Poem knows where I’ve been in my mind Poem watches as I lay down for a long while in the gloaming atop decaying maple leaves a...
13 Poems
There are 13 poems hidden under cuticle follicle inscribed in arterial articulation synaptic symphonies silent 13 poems who...
Dialogue dance
ask me a question so that I can know my own mind ask me to justify so that I can find fetters that fit the ethereal space between ears...
Morning Snow
two sets of tracks (1) meandering to the green underside of decorative cedar shrubs some small morsel (2) meandering to friendship...
Late night poetry, Geese, frozen grass (Haibun-esque)
I forget to pause in the moments between things. To see the world as it is rather than as the thing I have come from or am going to....
Writer's Detour
…is not a block it’s a flashing sign erected arrowed in the path of least resistance set up by Ministry of Commerce well intentioned...
Reflections of Flight
flight reminds me not to trust my eyes not to allow myself the luxury of thinking the sun-touched backside of clouds could...
Shuffling into winter
I have taken for granted the able functions of my body. Now that I hurt a lot of the time, I am envious of the times when I did not hurt,...
Hey teach!
secondary school bully shows up in my guts churn wracked-wrenching confidence stance power pose positive TED talk totality...
habit
mornings when I wish the fog that hangs like desert-rose-tinted drapes over the lake my inability to form coherent prose would both be...
Reorganizing Firewood.one
in the spot where the tin turns to earth bent as if in reverence (more likely a mis-thrown pine round) steady drip drop drip...
Wittengenstein's Folly
press the speed square snug crave measurement inconsistency impatience half haphazard premises try to force cleanliness of...
Dispatches from a Breakfast Joint #60
We came all this way sleep wiped clothes unwrinkled wallet, check, keys, check car purring seats heated To sit in the...
ellipses shuffle
Ok she wrote text ellipses which disappear reappear disappear again kingdoms of possibility built In ruin built once...
family matters
I never understood the Hatfields and McCoys. Generations of family members killing one another over a long lost honor or pride. I...
