she said ……….. let me give myself to him as the woman I know I am. He is a strong and solid man, a good soul……… enterprising and ambitious,………… a handsome man. He works hard like a punished mule. I will take care of him, and bear his children, because I am a floater, a [...]

It was within the evolution of her pain, the insufferable realization that her psychology still held her hostage in the past and in the future…………… trapped in some pin balled jazzed out puzzling bagatelle of mind that kept assembling itself in the citadels of thought buried deep inside her final archeological dig , the one [...]

dark woman of the night a tumbling frost in the wind in darkness tight as the sky’s embrace you tremble like a dying moth cupped in my infant hands dancing on my mind’s lake you still sing in all the slave drawn streets of all my yesterdays

I said ” kill her “ there is nothing left to salvage and she stared back from inside that small frame with eyes soft as eider down trying once more to move beyond her confinement into my broken heart the remains bloated and gurgling moaning at times reached beyond belief as death slowly ate her [...]

my mother smiled back from her final curtain call her teeth white and polished in the distillation of another spotlight captured only the essential aspects of the moment that though unresolved remained alive inside the five star headlines screaming their message through the night I was working in a house divided anticipating the usual resistence [...]

the death toll from the homeland held steady at half a mil per anum while people smiled as cancer ate their neighbors and their aunts and uncles and their cousins and their friends and wives and lovers, feasting as it does ………. with it’s insatiable desire for more , running rampant through the fields of [...]

my licks were smooth and seamless connecting and disconnecting as the gig evolved hot and tempered on the cold steeled anvil of it’s destiny . new territory appeared as the old lines of demarcation dissolved into the moment gone while dominion re-asserted itself again with ruthless indifference to any previous sound . the unordained stepped [...]

sweet jesus……I know the door is open the streets wet with the adhesive wine of blood and sorrow call me back this riff this obligatto this echo reverberating through the promise of a moment without thought , is offering oblivion again in the starlit showrooms of eternity . where I , caught in another tribal [...]

it is morning the air conditioning kicks in again . I moan and cry under the sheets reminding myself with those sounds that I am an animal too . the monkey on my back subversive and quiet , responds to the light , and as I stagger from one startling thought to another in the [...]

there was this feeding frenzy . they stood straight up surrounded by their thoughts the wildfire distant and quiet extended itself towards them , illuminating the open maws , speaking through them the same incantation , the same primordial mantra that had fashioned the world that contained the past , the future , and the [...]