Let liberty ring: “Thomas Jefferson survives” declared John Adams           1

  The dead shall live and their bodies will break blue-grey remains from the wailing quave with a graceful pain in gibbering wake braced for the ache of an early grave   as whippoorwills long by a lonesome song and killdeer shriek in protective feign backwater source beyond the urban throng sauntering storm of ensorcelled […]

Break to see or flee for shadeby a gawk of Sunon white-knuckle days pray for time to breathe & plea this all-wet phrasecarriedsomewhere on the breeze under the shovelof encroachingsweat detail over the rainbowto surrendereddusk relief slipped through cracksto callous fistsand redacted lists cooked with looksso spoke through smokefrom a knife skin cloak whisper-scrapedin garbled […]

~roar~     it always begins: again, rusty tongs clutching a wet worm  suctioned from the womb through the dust of an earthly tomb by red hands into blue crowns learning to hide from the haunter of the dark    a divine spark ceding shrilly echoes maintaining  stern remembrance of misplaced lessons  and an unforgiven foolishness puncturing hope through a blood pressure […]

        Formless husk repeats in motion,  numb of speech for hidden meaning  mutable eyes convert blinking lights into skyline heights occulting signsin public lifescrutinized ingested parchment ritual script, monotone clickingstalks & plies  sorcerers codesubconscious ties   productive trance and gentrified   skyscrapers pride   this high-rise view of systemized right     machinations hide in […]