the secret eyes of tennessee (mixed media on board)

on a rainy day

somewhere in the future

you'll be doing your drugs

in the parking lot

and you'll hear a voice say

  

she baked the brownies

with applesauce

she saw the deed

her poms poms piled up on the floor

i take two pills for the pain

one to make the world go way

and one for the moon because

all my friends are dying

broken wings (mixed media)

sitting outside the municipal court

i am dark

like a rose 

in a dark room

a room without light

made darker by 

the sound of breathing

the smell of bodies 

moving about

made of milk by

ten thousand ghosts

singing the songs of neil diamond

the world burning, flying through heaven

it's tail caught in the spokes of time

made cleaner by the wounds of jesus

light shinning through them

fish swimming in their seams

god holding the body of a dead baby

in its golden arms