A Levee to Absence the cards are brief this yearin shallow condolencea levee to absence,broken the scattered sorrowleft for salvagehow they talk of passing yet visit as though gentle asthe first faint callthe quiet summons to duty, steadfast the whether of breaksthe happiest dispersed days drag through cementmercury for the veins of uscaught in winter, … Continue reading A new poem at BLUEPEPPER

A Farewell by Sea from hand to hand the burnished soil passescupped by palms conveyed in fistto finally settle where dry throats breatheand cake the slow bake of hearts hereheld fast before the afternoon’s conviction we back into the wind to give you journeythe leather shoulder pieces clapagainst head and neck and skybelow us the … Continue reading A Farewell by Sea

It began unexpectedly in an old-fashioned way of coffee and wine. A mug left on a fence post was drained, and a glass of chardonnay went down in one slurp. Jon collected pieces of heavy dairy rubber and made a two-sided flip door into the house for her. Else would drop on to the old … Continue reading COP OUT 26 and the Trespass and Redemption of Jon Wilt Andersson

Did you drink in afterburnthat chalice searing out the onlookersloaded now in the hope of temperatureblast off unreached by normal livesas you leave this burdened atmospherefor even more high flying strataaway from this azure hopebelow your indulgencesstrung like gluten over working livesslowly moving in the clay domesticeach mass now not distinctor visible through corporeal guessworkreach … Continue reading Last jaunt millionaire leaving, turn off the lights