senryu (Valentine's Day group)

 love fulfilled—something charming about melted chocolate

empty fair grounds, he reminds me of cottoncandy and laughter

cityscape, tracing your faded arm tattoo 

hot water for tea, naked we sit around talking of things

heightened anxiety, holding back a blooming scream...

my stories told in vowels and consonants, burning sun 

dying fireflies peeled grapes of man barely looking at me

moonshine: tired of being a 'proper gentleman' 

slicing a white peach still tasting his dark skin 

flesh of a white melon, many things i beg for

umbrella in the corner i remain unmarried untouched unloved 

tossed-away dolls: rushing noon train to nowhere 

tangled hair, early February wind through a sliced melon 

hotel's doubledoors feeling lazy i commit to nothing 

crying child's runningspeechaboutthingsinthedark 

smokestacks smokestacks, returning home for dinner 

irregular polyhedrons, Life don't make sense many times

multiple violences someone's violin sonata 

refined barbarism, swallowing room-temp beer 

munching on 'tater chips chomp chomp chomp!

groceryshopping two men have a heated disagreement

political stunts empty whiskey bottle on pa's mantle 

Snoopy or the Care Bears: what i fear i truly fear