A fresh diagnosis,

waiting to die

 

Time now unmortgaged,

foreclosure in sight

 

The documents present,

endorsement unsigned

 

Appraisal—reprisal,

the path freshly limed

 

(Villanova Pennsylvania: October, 2019)

Genius…

beyond definition

—truth redefined

 

(Villanova Pennsylvania: October, 2019)

Dreaming in the shadows,

by the light of the moon

 

My feelings chasing words

—that can speak for us all

 

(Dreamsleep: October, 2019)

 Mercurial freedom

Beyond sexuality

Love trumping weakness

—truth beyond lies

 

(Villanova Pennsylvania: October, 2019)

There’s a certain type of age

that can’t get old

 

Death caught within the road signs

of its bartered weakness

 

Where voices cry a fevered wish

to all who listen

 

And legends write their epitaphs

—on hearts afire

 

(Villanova Pennsylvania: October, 2019)

I like hitchhiking

because it’s clean…

Its ending not restrained

by false beginnings

The future more indentured

than the past

With freedom wrapped inside

this very moment

Each car another chance  

—to say goodbye

 

(Dreamsleep: October, 2019)

Ironic…

what we forgive in our heroes

 

Their faults,

tragic badges of fame

 

Our glasses,

colored rose without brambles

 

Their legend

—sealed in myth beyond blame

 

(Villanova Pennsylvania: October, 2019)

The wildness of nobility,

the fire before the storm

 

The question with many answers

—the substance within the form

 

(Dreamsleep: October, 2019)

Religion is a license

—whose fee is death

 

(Dreamsleep: October, 2019)

Apollo en garde,

my prose to re-verse

 

Where Swans freely sing

—the Raven in search

 

(Villanova Pennsylvania: April, 2017)