3/18/09

Ape aware of the perception

the assumption--his every complex task

a miraculous expression of humanity.

- Cage Nada

4/1/09

Balto was a misty-eyed lover

Gene Kelly Harrison Ford

a whip and some rain.

- Cage Nada

4/8/09

Hobbled,

the skin off my knee,

at least you're not angry.

- Cage Nada

6/3/09

love is a verb

I nouned it (which killed it)

it being (love)

- Cage Nada

6/10/09

none of these

wires plugs

into my heart

- Cage Nada

7/1/09

it’s strange to hear

crystalline silence, at the edges,

where the noise lives

- Cage Nada

7/15/09

three is the magic number

things can get shaky

when you have a loose cannon in there 

- Cage Nada

8/12/09

the brain damaged

the heart pumped

the blood... still, beats?

- Cage Nada

9/4/09

do not wrap your head around

do not swallow or regurgitate

just open your arms.

- Cage Nada

9/30/09

On my shoulders a gnome

barks orders

glee, full, I oblige

- Cage Nada

10/28/09

Tell us a hard luck story--

your halo is boasting,

gold and loud.

- Cage Nada

11/11/09

Just stay alive, tree

for the tiny changes

and that thing that swells

- Cage Nada

11/25/09

I get the message,

things become known

only when they are ready.

- Cage Nada

12/9/09

Your ass is blown out

heels worn to plastic

and the chairs are all taken

- Cage Nada

12/16/09

Left us --

the furniture holds our legs

so we do not run into traffic

- Cage Nada

1/13/10

And what is dream crumbles in gravity

soars in water

and floats in space, infinite --

- Cage Nada

2/10/10

Coyotes on the streets

eyes flicker in headlights

hungry and alone

- Cage Nada

2/24/10

Satyr, centaur, unicorn horn--

am I getting through?

Is it wise to dam a volcano?

- Cage Nada

3/10/10

Your judgment bulldozes,

rips the pavement

or nudges me blind down the alley 

- Cage Nada

4/21/10

You take the calls

and midnight and after

and remind me of what I know.

- Cage Nada

5/5/10

Dolphin under thunder,

come onto the sand

to see the stars.

- Cage Nada

5/19/10

It’s the will,

the will she loves,

not the cock.

- Cage Nada

6/2/10

I'm handing you

the blue trash can;

there is open shit.

- Cage Nada

6/30/10

Kick me out of the country

a boot print on my back

and a smile on my face.

- Cage Nada

7/28/10

At the edge

you can almost hear

nothing.

- Cage Nada

8/18/10

Yesterday was just a version of today

the only difference is

the person I was lying to

- Cage Nada

9/15/10

Are you callous to death
because of the relentless noise
or the cruel silence?

- Cage Nada

9/29/10

my neighbor selling uppers in the street
"evening," I say, as he ascends the stairs
but he knows exactly what time it is

- Cage Nada

10/13/10

I can’t decide—genius or schizoid
hypochondriac and chronically ill
crucified and longing for it

- Cage Nada

10/27/10

They’re coming for you--
looking for openings in your pores
so they can sink into your heart

- Cage Nada

11/10/10

Solar flares
the mental patients burst—
the magnetic fields in the ward!

- Cage Nada