nice

Choosing choice
Nice
Helped hand
To swollen bones
Bleeded path
Nice
Vein split
Toxin pulse
Blur
Nice
Blur
Paralyzed
Thrown dirt
Like roots
Like the squirm
Of earthworms
Still
Nice
Dissected
Eyes open
Watching the cut
In slow breath
Nice
Hide hung
Red rivered
Strips
Then nothing
Nice

my room

An everted helicopter
Drab olive green
Baby huey
Dripped away white
All the sound
Of moving air
Deafening dreamt
Plastic army men
Moan like it's their last
Lungs gasping at dirt
Of barefooted farmers
Sweating heat under
Bubbled up pain t
Looking on red rivers
From this field
And that
Forgotten meadow
Buried secrets
Licked wounds made
Of broken mirror
Spun
Flight blades weave
The smoke braiding
Clouds of jet fuel
Choke arteries
And rescue
Is
Impossible
The ceiling
Fan

morning shower

Down in the tub
A sixth toe
Flipped up tap
Golden shower
Standing on head
Flesh colored vinyl
Ripping nails
On uneven caulk
Steam swallowed
Broken wings
That breath I held
In the palms
Of hands
Seeped every whole
These feet
Shattered and tired
Rubber to stiff
Clean
In the run
Of water