Optimism (though I'm thrilled about Washington D.C. this may be closer to home)

if it's a house of cards
doesn't it have to collapse?
but doesn't the half of the yard
darkened on full moon shadow
hoard & house & highlight
fireflies?
always a flame
folded within the bleakest black chamber?

Poe 1/19

from "ALONE" written by Edgar Allen Poe


"From childhood's hour I have not been
As others were--I have not seen
As others saw--I could not bring
My passions from a common spring.
From the same source I have not taken
My sorrow; I could not awaken
My heart to joy at the same tone;
And all I lov'd, I loved alone."


"The thing that makes you exceptional, if you are at all, inevitably that which also
makes you lonely" -Lorainne Hansberry


may you ever rest in peace (?)

sea foam phantoms

very lately
I've looked to see,
just off a shoulder,
sharp left outside a window,
just off camera,
someone or thing, I think.
The there, then not trick.
Here, I'll see it
here I'll see it for what makes sense.
Y'see, I've evidence.
sea foam phantoms
left a belated beat back,
just after this wave sweeps back.

I don't think it's drink
or the hours I should sleep or
all the private pranks I
fall for.
I'll envision these

green sea black deep.