My Mother Earth

You are earth mother
Always over
Never under
Encompass all
Before and after

You are earth mother
Carried off
By passing water
Bearing algae
Red as laughter

Bare your breast
To moonlit beaches
Take me back to
Fresh made promise
Tell me that you'll
Love me always
Run me through your hands

Take my years and
Make them oceans
Take our hearts
make them unbroken
Tell me that you'll
Love me always
Promise you'll be there

For I am walking
icy shoreline
I am crying
To the riptide
Bring me back my
Earthen mother
Bring me back to sand

Dammit girl
You've got me wishing
Running home to
Ancient lines
Where pens could speak
And ink was simple
Where voices filled
Our hearts

Make the earth
And take my wishes
Make the stars
And hold them tight
Fill your mouth
With moon and winter
Fill it with November

November brought me to you
November brought me home
November brings your destiny
November will never
Be the same

For autumn was
Our brightest moments
With cider spiked on
Love letter jive
Where earth is full
Her budding wish
Is brimming with
November

So come dear hold me
In the bunker
Cry and echo
Tell me wholly
How can we be honest here
in dark and dripping chamber?

All I want is poetry
And here I have a future
With round brown eyes
And snowy lips
Of hands and softened whisper

I'll tell you every secret
I'll listen to your fear
I'll wrap it all in morning dew
Throw it to the western sea
And take you to the kitchen
Where you bandaged up my shin

Our hearts
have both been broken
My eyes
Are dark with yours
My dreams
are full of you dear
Your universe of sound

Scream into the wind now
Demand it take you home
Bring my waters with it
Rain into the wells until
We're swimming in your sonnet

A weeping set of lullaby
A broken figurine
Your fingers tight
Around my wrist
In interlocking vow

What you have made is
Little hand
A story in your mind
Just scribbles in my pocket now
Preamble to your masterpiece

You're making now the mountains
You're making now the plains
You're making soon the rising east
The sun will come
Cast shadow far
Into the world you're making

But you are mother earth
Always mine
Never falter
We take it all
Hands together

You are mother earth
Carried off
By spring and summer
Holding days
In the horizon

You're my mother earth.

Sand and water makes me

I am ebb and riptide pulling
broken calls of Livingston's drone
we will name him after this sunset
fill our growler with its foam

For I've been called for prison guard
been called down to betray
I am shiver chill of first spring
and yet - its belly leads my way

For mountain treasures light a distance
an adventure long at sea
I am ebb and riptide pulling
I'm a fading loyalty

I am far before my timing
soaring seagull to the depths
with a crash of never trying
dealing out a thousand deaths

With a knocking on the shoreline
and you cradled in my palm
I am ebb and riptide pulling
I'm betrayal in the fog

But you made me Spanish oceans
roll of waves on deathbed plans
I will break our unmade promise
for my other gaining sands

Build a home upon blue waters
lean to weather God and change
don't begrudge my stern decision
You have made this mountain range

Our kids.

I will teach my children to fall asleep to anything.
They will eat apricots on salsa bread
And share their lullaby stories with me.

I will kiss their eyes
with the butterfly mouth of motherhood
and shield them from hip hop reality.

I want to make your children.
They will be lost boys
crossed with sewer turtle vigilantes.

You will never be more proud
than when we teach them to run.
Our kids will run to the moon.

Our full-sized bed

1. Please don't speak for three minutes
2. Thank you, just put them right there
3. I'm overwhelmed and we've not even started
4. If we had more time, I'd love you right
5. Our next minute alone is January 3rd?
6. I'd like to love you right now
7. I'm Mrs. - You're Mr. - Let's do this
8. Tomorrow, I'll need you to pick me up
9. Thanks for changing over the laundry
10. Darling, could you turn off the light?

Your bad day.

My teeth crunch with strawberry frost.
I want to cry dark purple
I want to cry the color of air just before it snows
Because nothing is right in my winter
when something's wrong with you.


I ache for snow
but those flakes melt miles above me
and all I have is rain

Can't we ever break
from weeks and weeks of rain?
It's in my eyes now - that rain

I ache for snow.
It creeps my veins now - that snow
my hair gets lighter
the backs of my hands change to blue.

The snow fills my bones
and I can't get warm at night.
Under piles of blanket all I get is rain
I sweat rain all night through but
snow still floats my blood.
I can't get rid of it.

Because my sky tints green with violet clouds
When something is wrong with you.


I can smile December sunsets
electric in their fleeting light
and still the snow will never fall.
That snow will never come.

Because snow makes us clean, dear
and we're still dripping
with muddy pines and rising King Tides.

I'm drowning under
and it just keeps coming - that rain
Your streams become my grave
Your song salutes my freezing heart
'cause I'm still full of mountain song

My avalanche just shivers when you pass
'Cause nothing's right with the frost, dear
when there's something wrong with you.


And it just keeps on raining - that rain!
I'm chained to the earth by it
My blizzard soul is buried
in the very flood of you.

How can I swim
when I don't even know
up in your downpour?

You are dripping moss and breaking boughs
laden with water
as that rain keeps falling and falling - that rain

'Cause nothing is right in my winter
when there's something wrong with you!


As the solstice falls dark to night
I present you with my crystal heart
Pop apart my button flannel
to reveal lungs full of snow
and a heart grown still with winter.

You pry between icicle ribs
and carve a tiny shape behind my breathing -

You are my heart.
Your raindrop silhouette
carved into my spine
is why nothing is right in my world, dear
when there's something wrong with you.

December 14, 2012

Dear Psycho,

You are unspeakable.
But please, let me try.
Despicable, indigestible, monster.

Your demons took the lives of angels.
If anyone believes there isn't a holy war going on
Now you've proven them wrong.

You are flesh walking
under the crown of Satan.
You monster.

And a coward -
such a perfect snake you were
that now we can't even cry justice on your back.

We have nothing.

You devoured our pure and perfect children
and left us with no one to hang.

I ache for your family.
I ache for your victims.
I ache for our country - you monster!

My children unborn are crying
our nation's heart is breaking
for the lives you stole from their futures.

I am faced - not with an incapacitating wall
of overwhelming
but with a vengeance with which to fight.

I will love more fiercely.
I will care more deeply
and I will prove to you that goodness is not dead!

And your gut-wrenching evil
cannot win this battle.
Good will overcome.

Why?
Because God is love
and love will destroy you in the end!

We spit in your grave tonight Devil
because LOVE will destroy you
in the end.

This is a promise.
From a daughter of God.
From a daughter of love.
This is a promise!

Big Tin Christmas

Big Tin Baby I've got all you want for Christmas!
Shout it from the breaking bands
I'm gonna bring you to your knees!

Big Tin Baby
don't you try to guess it
'cause this is your New Year's dream!

Shoot me full of novocaine
cause I'm too high on you
I'm pounding!

Big Tin Baby thrown it down
like thundering coin
on the dreams of subway beggar.

Baby break it down
like applesauce and
don't ask me what I got you cause -

it'll break you when you get it.
Get it?
I do.

I got dreams for you baby.
Big dreams indeed. Big Tin.
Big Tin dreams - indeed.