peanut butter

sour stomach
thoughts of
peanut butter and
banana toast,
the smell is sickening.
thick honey in-between my fingers, teeth
life is nauseating.

SHUSH

we leave the city looking

for silence

but the hum grows louder

step-wise, sideways, in intervals.

I have played music but this

is different.

everything is alive and trying to sing.

five thousand feet

from sea level and countless miles

we’ve come looking.

torn between calling out

to announce our arrival

and slinking in on soft feet

to see what happens

when we’re not expected.

Gravy train

Gift or graft, the ability to reason with incredible good fortune is lost
to the crisp packet heap and is slumped into a morass of help
and sandwiches, Berocca, hangover cures,
grimaces and absent favours, half-baked, lost into the dampness.

The curtains, starched stiff, a ruler edge of light -
do I hit and hope, stick the fork in anyway,
or should the mussel of the morning be discarded?

I didn't know she died of you
that day we walked her on the beach-
her midnight blue, lycra pantsuit
swishing as her legs cut toward to water.
Off to the side my flannel bottoms stayed
tucked into winter boots.
The moist sand gave way beneath her weight.
The waves lapped at thin ankles,
bulging calves, stretched thighs,
round-melon bottom,
paunch, chest, jawline
hairline.
You must have been back on the rug by then.

what kind of family

is this

all sharing

the shadow

of such enormous

glass

Hollywood sucks

I knew you in college
We studied film together
and had mutual friends
You made a feature length documentary
about albinism in Kenya
and it blew me away
You sang in the only a capella group on campus
and I often saw you perform
I spotted you a year ago
we were both in the audience at a friend's play
but I didn't say hello
because I didn't know how
I never realized you'd be famous
Never thought I'd cry when you didn't win that golden globe
Not a single black face had won yet tonight
so I turned off the TV and headed to bed knowing
You should have
and I haven't even seen the whole movie yet