hung’d poor judas

trespass’d compass 

cuff and convict’d

12 juries like apostles 

hung’d poor judas 

all those lost poor

letters.

dead letter’d office

pas recycleable’d

clock struck’d

count it luck

if it sticks it’s stuck

pluck’d

swam that river

got to 

that gate,

late.

but

thee 

lock and key

we’re on 

the other side

of me

tarmac’d life

solids clank

liquids drain

vapors disappear

compound’d

showmehappy 

tarmac’d life

validate’d

shortterm parking

showmehappy

winters thaw

springs yawn

summers fade

showmehappy 

wells don’t need screens

and which 

screen flatters 

best.

before the desires

before the addictional drips

before impulse’d living

flatter screentimes 

time well spent

deepen welltime 

wells don’t need screens

different streets made me differently

recollections of streets 

as remember’d

hedged alined straight

fence’d

beyond 

the no trespassing signs

over underpasses

under overpasses 

and

there were 

more streets

different streets made me differently

chronicles of a being b

carrion

pas caring 

 doorstep’d

under sea

under glass

 pass’d

freeway debris

tardy pleas

chronicles of 

a

being 

b

feel fear spring

a 

thousand canvases

tilt 

becoming

yellow’d 

sun’d

highest plains 

peek’d 

require no

wash’d hands

one must 

feel fear spring

askgideon 

pack’d parking lot

great wall Of

greater fall,

broke heart’d

space’d apart’d

IV drip strip

pack’d parking 

lot;

salt’d

spinning spun 

albums done

needle tacks

statics back

missionary plains

words wider oceans

failed hallow’d anchor

acts lay horizontal

missionary plains

tides and tombstones

tides and tombstones 

oath’s graveyard path

teeth fallen grave’d

past epitaph

tides and tombstones

sleep steepe plains

sleep

steepe 

plains

head rests on thee

awaken shepherd boy

wolves dressing again

forgotten droughts laid lushpastures

higher than a Joshua melody

most days 

spent

promoting

i get it.

diluted light

spilled

splashed 

vanishes

those walls

and 

no 

triumphant trumpet

higher than

a Joshua melody 

play the song

of your soul 

louder

.          period

the delta rose

‘and who wrote the blues

choose’d...

and what do they say

play’d...

winds in the skies

cry’d...

winds of the soul

pull’d....’

like that yawn

dawn 

on and on

don’t mistake nuttin 

for them shiny apples

sun glare’s primary colors and 

the blues

stone cutters need carpentry 

it’s carbon 

that we 

all share,

that’s fair.

all colors are on 

that wheel

before a Tupelo sunrise 

aefter a whitewashed Graceland 

before Handy after Joplin

waters had stirred

floods had receded

the land marks man

delta rose 

the delta rose

prayers rise

steeples too and that

metallic grain elevator.

and that horizon 

blurry white

and black

and blues  

blues climbing

blues falls

blues always a-moving 

you gotta blues 

can’t choose

you just gotta blues

elapse

dreamt 

these teeth

fail 

fall.

look at these hands

silent films

elapse

which ships

end up at the

bottom of 

the sea

gilted sums

distilled chemistry

diminished maths.

divisibility,

take half

and then 

quarter

halves

less glimmers

tilted sun’d

long horizons

last bow

gilted sums

shorelining

and dear strong bull

don’t you know

thatthat fence is weaker

and every zoo animal

don’t you know too.

do you 

know what 

separates

the tortoise and 

the turtle.

the ocean 

don’t need no keys.

shorelining

land’s penitentiary.

o and 

on what day 

was the

fence created.

just because the blinkers on doesn’t mean you can turn

just because the blinkers on

doesn’t mean you can turn

right of way

right away

powerplay

hundred miles an hour

scratch to itch

loudest win

spin.

a match to flame

gently drains

piled all thee books

and commentaries 

towards that sky

while unknown answers 

fell to unknown corners

loaners

sidelined 

out of time

just to find

all windows boarded up

cirrus me

king’d me

a saul suicide 

and that begotten son

king’d fee

first borns forlorn 

thetragic Bethlehem letters

to an Egypt

venge me

decree divined

ten’d plague 

ten’d command

law’d me

one to three

three in one

council me

Moses saw promiseland

saul promisedland.

thee daily moved by cloud

cloud finally exited thee

cirrus me

cultures the crosshair

degrees of

subtlety 

cultures the crosshair

modernhostages

pushing snooze 

chosed.

dawn 

awakens light

sold that birthright,

birthedrights-

human  civil  universal

for a petridish 

brimming with

incendiary AM dialed diatribes

fractured windshields

begrudging hermeneutics

muzzles; pas elders 

      and suspicions

at

every conjunction 

no butterflies 

no flight

no dawn

cant see art with security always staring me

populace painted

permanent bloodline

ink arteries

nails hang art

nails hang coffins

public collection

confessions

pas private

can’t see art with security always staring me

the scent of psychology

the scent of

psychology

the gravelroads

of Saint E’s

dust’s scent

ascents

triggers 

smoking guns

things in motion 

ancient moats

great wink

greater insurance

guaranteed 

ancient moats

great wink

greater stories

guaranteed 

steepest steeples

same speech

same street

same reach

guaranteeded 

higher fences

stem pas petal

waves to splashed

buzzed math

crashd 

no soliloquy me

fossilized factd 

cement

there is no roof

there’s no roof

sunbleached columns

stranded over 

vastly

forgotten empires

stem pas petal

global graves

make broken teeth

portico romano 

lost gates

please don’t cage the wild animals

body without soul 

flags without poles