as I sat huddled against the hieroglyphics scratched in a trance along the rusted bars of this tijuana cell I noticed the overripe waterbug scurrying across the freedom land, shiny and black and without care in his pre-chosen path thinking on molded bread crumbs or the slosh of stale beer mixed with brown sweat of [...]

Wanderer, dreamer, poet, traveler my dear man, your life in words, and deeds, spills from the pages of miraculous like blood silver crystals, a brilliance that shone through the darkness of humanity I listened at the craggy edges of the world for love and lust, the baggy pants tied with twirled ribbon covered in patches [...]

A character in the air, Falstaff or Juan Otero, rapping at the window. Their breath curdles within the inferno of my throat. Paralyzed by ogling cherubim under glass, leering at the tottering oaf I have become, the addition of a millennium. This landscape is a sieve over a beaker of mixed gases leaving its silty [...]

I am afraid of life my body trembles as I stir the cauldron of anticipation a fractured thought is all I can muster, a thousand paths to imitate a breath and a word consciousness on a thin layer of glass, so fragile, ethos of an era. failure of flesh and mineral, once arable now devoid [...]