Ok, this is it! After a couple years of poetry, a few months of preparations and a few weeks of pulling things together, my new book Arroyo Ink is now for sale online!
I’m excited about this one, I think this is the best work I’ve put into print so far. It’s the fifth in [...]

From the book ARROYO INK, on sale now!

is everywhere: longblack
forget-me-nots tied in knots
around your pillow, in your sink,
in your kitchen, in your mirror.
It’s all yours now.
On your chest, between your toes,
under your nose and over your eyes,
It’s all yours now.
Laced with you,
graced with you,
thick traced with you,
etch-a-sketched with you,
wrapped in you,
hung torn breathed with you,
longblack [...]

From the book ARROYO INK, on sale now!

Microphone.
Pumping hands botox cheeks unjiggling photo op.
Budget speech—children are the future—
drugs are bad—feedback squeal.
This passes for work. Elected officials, bored
reporters & governors, cops & whore dirvs,
robbers & parade pompous robbers,
taxdollars, tell-tale, checks unbalanced,
tale-tell, payola, no tale told.
Budget high heels hell to pay dirt,
pintail on donkey, elephant for [...]

From the book ARROYO INK, on sale now!
Almost full moon, a sticky sweet smell
running through the cemetery.
Dying flowers, the smell of accordions
and tequila. Candles burning
one night every year, light
dancing across marble names,
memory flickering across faces.
Muertos. Stumbling now,
through the orange light of candles,
fire-colored flowers of the dead,
the washed-out moonlight falling blue.
A hushed swirl of words, the [...]