After an Epic Failure
Three days she belligerently / challenged the Rocky Mountains to a duel.
You Made Me Feel So Much
I do not pray often, / but when I close my eyes / and hope for the divine / I see last summer and my ceiling fan.
My Trip to Mustang Island State Park
I looked down and there it was. / A blue so deep I thought it might be black. / The blue I had been searching for my entire life.
T.V. Wasteland – Author’s Commentary
Like the reference to Tiresias by Eliot, there is nothing new in the idea that humanity has always been inhumane and vulgar. Yet unlike Eliot and Ginsberg, for me, the realities of consumerism and war were up close and personal through the medium of my generation: Television.
T.V. Wasteland
What was that dim hum / Come / Over the lines / Morse Edison Marconi
Asphyxiation
I know that I suffocated you long before my hands were around your neck / I saw the way I made you choke on my burdens as if they were your own
Chicanas Con Ganas
Razors don’t work on Chicanas / They don’t bleed like you and me / They want to, they try to / But the razor will not comply
Film Reviews – 2014
Only Lovers Left Alive / Snowpiercer / The Grand Budapest Hotel / Frank / Nightcrawler
Lean on Me
I had traveled internationally alone before, but this was different. I couldn’t shake the fear and sadness that sat somewhere in my chest, blocking the air from reaching my lungs and keeping my heart in a tight hold which my rapid heartbeat couldn’t escape.
Ella in the Jazz Club
The third step, alive / down, down, down / Immersed in a warm explosion