we’re off
to the beach
today shovels
and pails towels
and books
you’ll sit
in the sand
I in a chair
a novel in my lap
we’ll bake like
cookies brown
outside gooey
inside
later today
you’ll be bronzed
and I’ll be
a flamingo
Category: Start/End Relationships
Today
the sun
broke through
our clouds
of anger
this morning
as we stood
across a sea
of comforters
arguing like
dogs fighting
over cats
we scream
like wailing
sirens profanity
accussation
insistent barrages
of depth
charges
Dreams
I dream
sad dreams
they come
to me in
the night
like sirens
and poke
at me with
sharp sticks
they remind
me of my own
folly my lost
loves those
passed away
I’m hurled
upon the
rocky shore
of twilight
my galleon’s
mattress
softens
the crash
of my alarm
Hawaii Beach
I went to the beach
yesterday
sand and sun
you could smell the surf
and feel salt on your skin
you laid next to me almost
naked
I too ashamed of myself
sat uncomfortably in the
sand like a turtle
flipping over onto your back
I saw your chest expand
and relax the mounds of
muscle found their rippled
beneath winds off the water
the trail of hair trailed from
your nipples to a straight line
disappearing beneath your shorts
where they swelled with your sex
what’re you staring at you squinted
nothing turning away ashamed
you can look
you said
it’s not looking that I wanted
Rain in Hawaii
It’s raining
in Hawaii
locals say
it’s the gods
weeping
clouds hang
like snagged
balloons and
move quickly
through the
basin stopping
to drop ladels
of water on my
neighbors
curtains of rain
are drawn closed
here at home
