Poems from Spiral Poetry
Can’t
____curl up
You know
____you’ve grown old
(cracking bones)
____when the fetal position
____hurts
Peeling skin
Coats the walls
Of travesty
And love.
Chisel me away,
I beg you.
And don’t bother
Priming me again.
Pick away
My drywall ribs...
If I am any indication,
there is much left to contemplate.
And if that breeds contemplation,
I have little left to indicate.
And while the...
This small house,
(do you see?)
was not cramped,
(so you see.)
there could not be,
(see. see. see.)
many things
(you don’t see.)
But there...
I won’t write tonight
____only cause the words
____keep stubbing toes
and maybe my belly hurts too.
Pace and
splinters take my bones
____(...