cashews |
today i saw a man with a mouth shaped like a cashew and it was slitted open like he had spent years prying the stitches apart to speakthere were two teeth yellow stale probably the toothbrush wouldn't...
Posted by Elaine Maltezos on Thu, 13 Sep 2007 11:02:00 PST |
music theory |
jesus, i can see itcoming. bleary-eyed, dirty fingernails,yesterday's jeans,dried mud on the anklesfrom smoking under a bushbeneath the florida night raineight a.m. classroomsare stiffly litand my ba...
Posted by Elaine Maltezos on Tue, 04 Sep 2007 04:30:00 PST |
what remains undone |
in the end when they weighthe words you sayand all that you have doneit matters not the things you've gotbut what remains undone
Posted by Elaine Maltezos on Tue, 22 May 2007 01:46:00 PST |
Why I Can't Remember Last Night |
who wouldn't try to harness the groove we feltblood pumping slowly, deliberatelythe thick night air pulsing against usthe ground panting like a dog out of breathwe enclose ourselves in a circlepeering...
Posted by Elaine Maltezos on Tue, 22 May 2007 01:43:00 PST |
Hands |
hands that are weatheredhands worn rough by the worldhands that swallow mine in one gulpwith fingers that have unhooked a writhing fishand suppressed its convulsions until it lay stillhands that are l...
Posted by Elaine Maltezos on Mon, 07 May 2007 11:15:00 PST |
Pass Your Judgment |
what season is thiseach rising sun burns a full day of heatand i question this delicate existencehow about one month from now?three years? it's not the leavingbut being forced outturned away, traded i...
Posted by Elaine Maltezos on Sun, 15 Apr 2007 07:11:00 PST |
december 24th |
Tonight I rode past tall evergreens toppled overIn the parking lot on Monroe, collapsed in a heapStill, lifeless tangle of branchesCarolers crackled through the radioSilent night, holy night.The lot's...
Posted by Elaine Maltezos on Mon, 05 Mar 2007 06:50:00 PST |
