Whisper & Scream

Not ‘Classic’

Or ‘Beat’

But those naked

Words

That come to

Me in my

Dreams

Each color

Rejected

The Rainbow

Preferred

Refusing to

Choose

Between

In the well dug

Deepest

And well dug

Straight

Hides a

Tempest

Once unforeseen

That blows

Through this

Moment

Destroying

All time…

Words that whisper

Words that scream

(Villanova Pennsylvania: April, 2017)

Next Station

With no advanced ticket,

I pay as I go

My boarding left open,

still more things to know

The day train a local,

expresses by night

My spirit rolls inward,

—next station in sight

(Highpoint North Carolina: April, 2017)