Beneath my Skin

My face is full of wonder.

My eyes do not have any fun.

Without the sky we can get power lines?

I play to win.

I lose again and again.

Touch me to notice messages buried in my skin.

Dark House

Cruddy smells flake off the house and I know I shouldn’t be here.

No one has in faithless year after faithless year.

Knock it off.

I see you filching my backup plans from my purse.

God I wear blue well.

My soul is transparent like the cleanest lake.

I am without my numbers and shapes,

sewn from cotton fields.

I’m a doll you can love, hate, dissipate

Wrap me in rain,

give me cool comfort like the

swirling of air from a fan over my legs

at bedtime so noxious and sanctimonious.

What strange aliens wait in the field behind the house,

gaudy in their multitudinous space ships?

Give me sweet succor and lay me down

in the pumpkin patch.

Let me grow vines to root me in place.

There is no sense in running.

And when the aliens come,

let their teeth already be sharpened,

their hands quick.