Xanadu
 

Electric Poison. Stealthy, creeping in the clouds. Coos of droplets, cascading above. Waiting on wafts of eucalyptus, a dash of sweat....

Sitting around a dining table in the busiest restaurant in town like any normal Sunday evening. Cars passing by, dogs barking, people...

To the oscillating strings, hidden in the piano’s body, freely vibrating. The sustain pedal nears the floor, the harmonious notes linger...

V-speed on an airplane giving the feeling of The great plains or the green traffic light Giving drivers a fright. The ocean water, a...

Stained hand of annatto paste after cooking tamales. Tears of a kid’s bleeding knee. Sometimes the flashing lights in the ambulance. A...

I am the dropped bubble gum on the sidewalk; forgotten. A piece of ice cream. Maybe a full scoop. An eraser, wounded from poignant...

Sometimes, as gray as the eyepiece of a telescope lens, useful in several ways. The metal button on pants. And others, driven over snow,...

My stomach is tied in slowly tightening knots. The days and years ahead are terrifying. There is nothing I can do but sit with the...

When I walk into the studio, Any color, any size, The dust of purple and green spreads to fill my eyes. The ballet bar, built as my seed...

Knock on the door with roses. The crunch of a crisp apple Being cut into a warm pie. A long velvet carpet Waiting for a celeb to walk...