fringe selvedges

the loose end of poetry

Category: Weft

East Monroe

The cold, anticipation The arc, of forbearance The slow, walk on nerves In the dark – Of transparence. Chicago, IL – November, 2021

Longboards

Clearing a vision Feeling it’s tide Awake from the issues That crush – A solemn pride. Isle of Palms, SC – October, 2021

Snaux

Living a memory Feeling its drag Touching a vision By dogging its wag. Hirshhorn Gallery – Washington, DC – October, 2021

Screven Road

Down my latest, memory, hole I cannot, Find, The end I try to keep, my focus, up To somehow, Now, Transcend. Lake Lure, NC – January, 2021

Longshore

Riding on a vision Waking up to see Was that what I Took for granted Was that we – Were ever free. Westport, CT – November, 2020

Bluffed Oaks

Sensing, our surroundings In this age of – The Fear Reminds us, resoundingly To re-engage – What’s never clear. Edgartown, Martha’s Vineyard – October, 2020

Crossed Fade

Movements, in motion In a memory, of me Makes, a soft judgement In the meanings, I see. Croton-on-Hudson, NY – September, 2020

eleven exit

I walk down lanes Of other memories Experiencing loss, and love Of a consciousness stream – Like being inside, Another’s dream. Round Lake, NY – June, 2020

Solaise

I measure, my moments In the spaces, of me As I think on My present As a now – that I flee. Val D’Isere, France – February, 2020

Mirrored

I fear my own anger I’m fraught with its pain Frozen Fanatic Fissures Is my mental – Terrain. Whiteface Mtn, Lake Placid, NY – February, 2020