this asphyxiated night sky

October 20, 2008

every night there seems
one less star
in this
asphyxiated
nig
ht
s
k
y
.

Confusion

July 9, 2008

People ask

“How do you feel?”

I say “Fine”

But do I really?

Am I to know

If I can not cry?

If I lie awake at night

Thinking without control

But not of my mother?

haiku

June 19, 2008

at night we count
not stars but gunshots–
five two days ago.

switch

June 18, 2008

imagine a switch that you could
flip to turn day into
night—
shutting the sun off like
a halogen lamp dissipating blue to
black revealing blinking
stars and emptying streets of
people and cars

gone, will be all signs of life
(or at least, into hiding:

beneath rooftops and cotton
Sheets—where i’d really rather
be
with you)

at the flip
of a switch.

haiku

June 16, 2008

storefronts close
clenching like teeth
against the night.

darkness caught me

June 15, 2008

darkness caught me
by surprise the other night
outside–a lonesome
firefly brought it
to my attention.