Born on the Fourth of July

ratty red curtains

ratty red chair

pink patterned dress

a growing belly

camera! please go away

let me be

no guitar, no song today

un-happy birthday

twenty-one

born on the fourth of July

Sparkley Surrender

Ratty red curtains sparkley
with surrender light up
the room you came to 
live in.

Prelude to you, my
life was squashed
and picked clean
bone dry by
kinfolk and lineage —
ostensibly with care.

Now you arrive
with gleaming photographs
and pink bubble gum
lustful thoughts
and honeyed kisses
that drive us together
and forevermore crush 
The Arbor of Blue Inertia.