Paperwork

My besieged dove, 

oh that a thousand

origami hands 

would turn your paper flood 

into a fleet of ships 

and sail you to me.

B.F.M.

Cheers

Pedaling, pedaling

up a steeple grade, 

a crowd of lupine 

waves me on. 

Churning, churning 

against the wind, 

while a mustard field 

cheers "go-go-go."

B.F.M.

Molotov

I know fondness, desire, coupling, 

jealousy, abandonment, fear, 

a blundered icy cocktail 

with a warm and fuzzy back burn.

B.F.M.

Lute

Cavern dripping stalactites 
pooling aquamarine and black. 

Here, the pen dips into ink pots. 

Here, the wind plucks water reeds 

like a lute vexes skin, bone and chromosome.

B.F.M.

Obtaining

On the last night,

three crickets will chirp, 

and that other world...

will turn its shirt right side in.

B.F.M.

phd.fail.ed

I tried to be someone extraordinary: Jerry West. Then tried to be Jasper Johns and Robert Rauschenberg rolled into one. Dreamed of being Robert Plant, David Bowie or David Byrne. I tried my hand at graphic and web design, then business. Fail.ed.

Being too temperamental, I was never voted most likely to succeed. Tried to be loved, but never learned how. Tried marriage, failed twice, but today sitting in my peach colored box I successfully envied the riders of the Tour de France.

B.F.M.

Pacemaker

Death came, yet 

the leaf clings

hoping tomorrow

will return.

B.F.M.

Relationship 4

Accelerating while
stepping on the brakes.

B.F.M.

Affections Come then Go

Yesterday I climbed to the top branch of the everlasting oak. Today’s sorrow the branch breaks and I come tumbling down thwacked about by each branch I triumphed yesterday.

B.F.M.

The Real and The Imagined You

The Real and The Imagined You