I dreamed the old man last night Driving cross country road turned north, and as in dreams, no one noticed, the shoulder crumbled like a leaf we fell looking up where the road went on without us. In the logic of dreams, I remembered the old cellar holes on the island…

An age of infinite irony:

100 degrees in the land of ice and snow Polar bear’s got nowhere to go All that was perma, about to be lost

Longing is what the earth feels for the moon once a part, now held in orbit

Lately, too late, I see Nero on the rooftop, watching a tide of flame. Did he imagine the end was his to call, his tune the wind. In the home, every woman queen, any man, a king but only the imperator can bring down the house. …

I looked for you, in the remembered places, times shared, footsteps traced. Never certain as memory makes it, but looking back, surely, it was shared, not a stolen kiss. Surely, it mattered more than a passing moment. I walked the overgrown paths along the shore. Ways, I know through seasons; pale…

I listened to Matthew McConaughey speak at the White House As he walked away from the podium, among the questions called out this, “Where you grandstanding just now sir?” I thought, of this counterpunch thrown from a throng No weight behind it, a hanging stain Demeaning the words by attacking the man Just an actor with…

It came without warning, that’s what they’ll say, wish I’d a known, never saw it coming, never knew it’d be like this. Oh, I’d laugh, if it wasn’t a crying thing, Here at the scene, walls tore down and roof ripped away, every last belonging scattered, dreams in tattered heaps, waiting to be hauled away. Laughter…