Looking down to mountaintops below peaks, canyons, with reflecting rivers flow Above the earth I see patterns sprawling Organized farms, dams, and homesteads calling Scars left behind in the earth's crust Rivers consuming mountains to dust The land stretches to eyes limit And I am not contained within it The more I ascend; the greater … Continue reading Airplane

Always a product paraded in my face Sometimes I become the item sold My thoughts and opinions on the marketplace Told to sell my art souring my words cold It's all manufactured and scripted story lines Jewelry stores selling fake gems and artificial designs My soul cut into profitable pieces my wallet the prize in … Continue reading Market

As a child I checked out joke books from the library I noticed the popular kids made other laugh I thought I could learn to do the same Eventually I did Later someone gossiped about a person I admired They said their opinions were too strong Suddenly I was emptied of my opinions As a … Continue reading Be

Statues Monuments Plaques Signs City Holiday For what purpose? To inspire? To remember? To cement a lie? For propaganda? For supremacy? And yet no memories for the victims His name remembered and gilded Every Taino name is forgotten History taught from exceptional dementia

Have you really healed? Or simply learned the strength to carry your pain well Has the burden become a blemish on your heart Have you just applied cover up Has silence becomes a place of comfort Has the trauma truly left you Healing is more than still breathing It leaves you whole again Brandishing scars … Continue reading Healing

Pain leaving time bereft of its momentum Every nerve crying out despair Mind locked in denial of this moment Desperately seeking out care Knee's buckling and breathing inadequate Absence slowly pulverizing the future Time locking in place; unwavering As truth pours down leaving fracture Blood pumping as your stomach butterflies Life's framing rot beneath your … Continue reading Loss

One“You have memories of a ghost Selfish and hated taking pictures Desire priority over Respect Parasite masquerading as a gift My worst moments locked in memory One-dimensional horror replayed My hands carry the stains still Dropping burdens at your feet Time may heal but memories burn Any transformation eclipsed by infectionsOnly one form can I … Continue reading Two Truths

Grasping free time by anxious hand Stretched and worked into thin strands One by one I attached each line to variable Tethered life with line nonpliable Securing politics, finance, and physics Lashing them to my planet’s orbit Creating a world in my own image Organized and without blemish I made life for my new masterpiecePuppets … Continue reading Time

The light turned to shimmering fractalsChasing invisible streaks through darkness My eyelids sealed closedAnd I freed from realities harness Laid on steel made of arctic ice My lungs burning against tangled wires My arm bored out to sustain Hanging between realities spires Sunlight sheepishly penetrated my eyelids Revealing my state to my frenetic mind My … Continue reading Glimmer

Is your grandmothers crocheted blankets of oppression your desired cloak?Are you grandfathers Unacknowledged sins the pyre upon which you burn your children’s futures?Is reconciliation not cheaper than honoring an altar-ed history?Do the lessons of gilded tombs of pharaohs ring hollow in your ears?Does the steel that pierced Caesar feel of a warm blanket?Do the ruins … Continue reading Empires