Island Heart

she bids adieu to sun bleached shores slinking through sand before sunrise chilly opalescence shimmering pale morning light breathing deep the nautical breeze gazing off to distant lands beyond the horizon far from where her passion lies shipwrecked heart tossed unto island seclusion suffering rays of a sun which disrupts the darkness confronting the hidden…

Brother Julius

tell me brother julius of nights spent in the open beneath quilted darkness damp heat in the wee hours lost and ignored in a street lamp solar system how you wandered deep into desolate suburban wastes resting affluence of noctilucent methane clouds hanging cold on the edge of night satin sprawled amidst dead heaven how…

The Sun in Summer

sanguine summer sun august above the minted morass hazy sweltering heat humid smog opaques obscuring butter churned rays smeared saffron and cream setting in orange glazed oil paint vermillion yolk frozen stretching out wild in feeble ripples still waters disturbed caught beneath the thrust of mayflies pirouetting then passing on