precious shards of angel tears
above the Staples Center skyline
a helicopter or two
green heavy military
did you see the angels’ lace
made of colors not yet named
on the ground concrete pillows
bricks pipes crossing lines
multiplying multitudes
faces looking up
to wonder
how the rainbow got it’s high
its virtue and its glow
xray visions time flows through
yet we don’t know
we are the spectrum of it all
Author: mbrazfieldm
the birds would sound
Baker Beach fog cold wet knees
sand deep cut wrists
knuckles bleed
cold sea wind seeps
into the cracks of the spirit
was around the time
we broke our peace
seagulls screeched wildly
above our coal black energy
you the pulling south
i the fleeting north
umbilical cord
severed forever
Artemis took this orphan in
taught me how to hunt
other creatures
such as i
for crazy cannibalistic 32182314155 rites
and wandering in every downtown desert
dawns spent in tunnels bent
from the neck down
every now and again
the birds would sound
toasting to paired up
cooing doves
that have flown away from me
cooing sounds of city pigeons
January
cold restless
eyes opened
limbs clasped tight into the womb of the donated forest green love seat
two suns and one absent moon ago
there you were in faded cotton gown
bleach rough by the sanitation bound
gasping and heaving
not too different
to the cooing sounds
of city pigeons
i never thought that you would go
as i expected that you were fighting
now
so much time has rushed on
and late tonight
while i write this for you
i wonder
were you crossing the Styx
neck deep
tell me
does that river ebb and flow
like your spirit and your soul
is the current soft
do the little waves embrace your ankles
like precious jewels
time split the light in two
we both took in your make up bag
i the incorrigible one
mumbled unsanctified Kaddish
not finding the words
no matter
YHWH had cupped
broken and trite utterances
from my mouth
writer

valium crash the news looks bad the ship has lost its hull
there are walnut trees on Pluto i think
crystal diamond blue
horizon upside down
center dividers stars in bloom
Ernest H waves from a black velvet bull nebula
shooting at gazelles in heat
downtown city hall fenced off from vagrant free radicals steady to explore
news of the day inner tubes
floating up the ice tundra
teeny tiny core
liquor stores
barbershop
bank building
bikini lounge
margaritas screaming opera loud
golden arches
chicken all militarized
taco toll
franchise whores
open for business
Pluto has one cherry tree
at dawn we read thee Book
thee Morning Star’s dead light
we shouldn’t tell those lies
could the gropers mashers and fiends
grandpa killers darlings of infallible machines (wink wink)
dare to go where print castrates them
Pluto tired just like us
rotates on her side
ferns and fossil bones fuel
glistening surface ice
Charon chases Papa like a Marx brother
down a Cuban blvd
Che comandante semper fi
make a left on Broadway
Pluto grows tomatoes
shipped to Mars
on backs of rain forest mamas
haiku for blushing girl
wallflower
blush
in
the
beam
of
Venus
eyes
hide
from
an
angry
Sun

defcons and goddesses
there are yellow flowers honey sweet
butterflies floating in between
the thorns stick it to the sky
moons on time every month
silver matte and happy
but me thinks now and again
of defcon one through five
911 Cuban crisis kept at bay
yet with clear blue skies
hope
open enrollment
healthcare packages
named after heroes named
what difference does it do when little girls are getting maimed in mind body soul and spirit
today i watched and saw and read and talked to those who’ve climbed the ladders of success congratulations were in order
at the park the pecan squirrels were fed bits of corn and French bread crumbs
and when i turned my eyes to the west
tired with the wind that blows to burn
again i think of defcon one
and how since Lilith and the Eve
my kind has been regarded
but we’re still here with codes
of our own bestowed upon us
by the goddesses Grace Strength and
Thunder
insecurity haiku
love it hurts me so
never knowing where to go
on lines of his palm

Yu
engine speaks in tongues at times
pulls into the soul
stops dusty clotted roads
the time to move was now
like a parade
on protest days
green mile flowers
line the way
sun kisses face alone
under hood hoses roar
radio delivers telegrams
from simpler times
and long ago
trails like waiting mothers
daughter shacks lined down
their shack feet shoed with poppies
ruby slippers anti-Hollywood style
ghost maidens sell red berries
for crows atop the Joshua trees
for me to feed
can’t stand tall
only in awe
dream catch spider web
crystals for tiny arachnid queens
their king hides under the rocks
wind fingers my aging hair
cowlicks everywhere
magnetism from Her core
presses on my mouth
and leaves a score
locked in me
are secrets stored
warriors express on Her behalf
not because they deem Her less
but because She is too sacred
for this place where i come from
in the hollows
warm like wool blanket cream like gypsy wall boundaries with lust but never really captivated some shelter only in the head down the road of night relays morning light squinted are all eyes to cold soggy existence