Painting: "Fruit in Bowl." Always the lazy apple Never the bold worm. #vss365 #fruit #haiku

To the margins We'll tend to pretend matters Imaginary electrons scattered in parking lots of magic malls Assemble the ghost befrienders The patent pending rainbow bridge unbenders Sad purveyors of invented drawls By the new moon sky Our sign is the twinkling contact of discerning eyes #vss365

So much creation here, so many Dr. Frankensteins. #creation #vss365

Real talk (for a kid turned 18) Sometimes, without really knowing why, I want to die. Want nonexistence One with everything & none the same Forgetting that there's time for that pre/post. So thank you, kid-- You lighthouse sign For to the shore For to the shore Arrive alive. #vss365 #arrive

I descend from burning stars Who tore themselves apart For love or art Let me be light to meet your eyes The outline that you recognize In almost dark. It rents by the week Cash down Double locks & haunted sheets The beauty of the universe The sharpened teeth. #vss365 #descend

LIke the Catholics say You're dust The ultimate correction to a plus. Don't mourn. Fertilize. It comes as no surprise. As I lay dying Pump in Shellac At Action Park Remind me: Skip the light, go to the dark (For my mental health) #Ascend gaudy, feathered. Fall feeling more yourself. #vss365

For the reluctantly well-behaved Balance beam at a steep incline California sober psilocybin compromise Here for my Doomscroll Patrol 25-year coin For deja vu for certain that the sky will fall today Here to maybe not be an asshole And in my darkest moments even pray #vss365 #balance

Out for smokes In full #sprint Flip flops Shirtless Arm tucked in a splint Over behind the Gas N' Go The sky's on fire We come to the end The crossing through The shot goes in As time expires #vss365

Dueling #headwinds Janus standstill Banjo picking Gully landfill You go your way I will too Quiet riot Hidden view Spun-up icles tangled part Heartbeat racers off the charts Something burrowed Something blue Hopeful 4 a bite or 2 Such things tend to eat at you Steady diet Nothing new #vss365

Celtic breeze in Brittany heat Tree took its leaves Up and #departed The stones will speak If the ghosts stay silent Endless fields Impending violence Flash of silver Softest lace In the dark We lay in wait To eat your heart Then share the taste Await one's turn A common fate. #vss365

Spraypaint the #rose in blacklight ink Flirt with cliche Rush into the breach For the cache of sad bouquets Summon the last ditch husbands May we pour through the parking lot in full sprint For a marked up price at the Mount Laurel ShopRite The light of love To check off the list #vss365

Romantic colic Baby's difficult Moribund #frolic monogamy ritual 1D experience Trace the liminal Drunk on the way to my prepaid funeral You were triangular I was cylindrical We were both rather complex individuals Kiss me, oddly Open mouthed & wallet closed Canapes Some more of those #vss365

USMNT looking a bit like the Atlantic City Boardwalk

pull yourself closer like someone worth loving because you still are #vss365 #Pull #Senryu #Haiku #Poetry #Micropoetry #JustWrite #WritingCommunity #BlueskyPoets

for lost memories Bright in broken rain Waiting for a bus that never came. The needle finds the groove Familiar #grain You skip right off. A timeline A doorway Closes off. Binary Call respond We gravitate. With hollow in the middle Empty space. #vss365

For angels late to find space on pins Sow discord Move by moonlight Never make a plan you want to keep Roam graveyards Etch epitaphs Wake the dead so they know they were asleep Be laughter Be light Be reason Be peace Be mercurial Be the hard part Be elliptical Be like #pulling teeth. #vss365

Behind or in the #lurch Political lean of the Salvadoran Catholic Church Custom scissor bent sinister Luggage on its lonely carousel (You, on the proverbial jet plane) I'm a broken bell bereft Sister Avec silent string (Beads all fell) EWR at 4 am its own circle of hell #vss365

Defective models The whole #batch Feral runway Rabid under flash Find Wintour in her hermitage Ascend the World Trade Send succour to the skyscape By Marconi waves We aren't the robots We aren't anything at all We will be your perfect ending We will be your fall. #vss365

It comes off as unearned A depth of feeling Heart aflutter Isn't it on fire? Or verged on rent akimbo, tachycardic Aging more with panicked pacing than with #putter I'm in the garden Talking to the weeds I call my only friends By night all Bellow antihero Glued to couch Three gummies in #vss365

Seascape gradient #Clench the sky in wavering fists That's how it is Imbroglio In fits & starts Defiance of the Language Arts Exquisite epic lists Yr tired, yr poor, yr yearning masses Flash fried. Buttered. Burned to ashes Paintbrush gray Bitlip kissed to beyond the beyond Oblivion. #vss365

It's the future I'm eating lab-grown habanero wings A flatline of my dad is saying spot-on general things. I'm still trying to finish this epic #novel from 1973 I'm still trying to square this circle-- There's you, and time, and me. #vss365

An ether flicker A sent text. A periscope appears An SOS. We're underground We've burrowed in While ice caps melt in devil wind. We'll walk We'll walk When the air is safe Pick flowers from the freshest graves. An Eskin Dope A mean #fiend The only world worth living in's on screen. #vss365

Thumbs down to LaGuardia Airport's IT department. Ya wrecked my connecting flight because (checks notes) information can't reach ATC from airlines & extended my trip 10 hours and counting. NYC thinks it's the best and is mid #hottake

Wolf cries wolf Dog in the wrong fable Pet smart Phone left off its #cradle. Romulus: Scraps under the table Rome dreams Burn the urgent cable. Zoomies A million kinds of bark I've seen emotions Lonely is an art. Basket river Up on current events Cool off Sprawl by the A/C vents. #vss365

Flip book Stick man #falling Plummets off the page and hits the floor, sprawling. Dust yourself off new man in a new technicolor world Find meaning in that miracle, sensation Find freedom in transcendence past your station. #vss365

By the power of Grayskull Broken Magic Eightball ringtone flute by Jethro Tull Wasted Volume #wondrous Subway token tidal wave spring herald drowned in lust Drawbridge lifted-- Fled the natural world with a twirl & a curtsy Clear-eyed view or clinically depressed? Signs point to yes. #vss365

Come in last Will and testament Withhold these truths Destroy the evident Eminent ruin Rue the imminent Burn the ships Leave no #remnant Raise yr glass Half-meant hail for the rowdy exceptional Achievers we Raze heaven and earth For out with the old For doomed from birth. #vss365

It might seem that I'm unmoved. But slowly, poster child for said, you've changed my view: From confident of my own power to a sense it's only mine to lose. It comes as a relief, as boon, as rest. 1 or 0 I'm not of any consequence. The cold truth is I'm a marginal #crevasse at best. #vss365

Better to do it first and beg #forgiveness Applying again to rent unminded business For crime by daylight Bury the witness I'm getting this half-formed sense of campground lovers, stakes intense We're gonna need more kindling 13th son of a 13th son Without the Devil, where's the fun #vss365