Lucky Jefferson

"Tell me, son,
Are you afraid of the dark?"
"No,
But I am afraid of darkness."

my mother
bought me a latte
               in a drably fancy
                              park cafe

Mouth wide, bloody and pleading, palms extended, my need is ugly and unrelenting.

I got the news today
My V.A. claim denied.

Suppose I said the words “dinner time” and I wrote the words “chicken piccata”

i'd like to hear
the repentance
of a devastator
broadcast to the world
live and direct
from his deathbed

The mint and spice scent
of my grandfather's pipe tobacco,
once lost

A purple dome descends upon our house as my dad steps out of his 1987 Chevy Cavalier.

Burning bright, making heat, it makes sense now