Category: poetry

• Ants on Parade

  

  can you see what i see words don’t come easy to the sour blue mind of a biochemical visionary a puzzle in the middle illusions in the shade grill step energetic apex grooves like a 6 a.m. lollipop a lie rings out like a church bell cool mama, facts don’t matter when the dead are…

  theusedlife

  September 28, 2019

  poetry

  creative writing, creativity, poem, poetry, writing

• Seven Road & Other Poems

  

  I am happy to announce that my first poetry chapbook, Seven Road & Other Poems, is now available for purchase on Etsy. (Going forward, you may access a permanent link through the Books tab on this site’s main menu.) This book is 35 pages in length and will be printed and hand-bound to order. It contains several poems…

  theusedlife

  September 17, 2019

  poetry

  book, chapbook, creative writing, creativity, poem, poetry, publishing, self-publishing, writing

• Cut to Black

  

  the film switches to men on their backs, they’re our real heroes, surfing on the chemical pink underbelly of a fertile sky they’re our whiskey dreamers the soft dancers, the coronet of half-naked bodies blown down by a puff of incense and a hit of stale tobacco it is a scene that begs for rearranging…

  theusedlife

  August 21, 2019

  poetry

  creative writing, creativity, poem, poetry, surrealist poetry, writing

• Sandman Express VII

  

  all that’s left at the end of this story’s a struggle, a penniless offering from the scantest corners of a forest, the scent of a long-forgotten tear like melted yellow perfume and a snap of the fingers that sent up a parachute like a tornado of fried tumble weeds, a pocketful of gleaming teeth strung…

  theusedlife

  July 2, 2019

  poetry

  creative writing, creativity, mystical poetry, poem, poetry, psychedelic, psychedelic poetry, writing

• Sandman Express VI

  

  Read more of the Sandman Express poems. except when he left it mattered that someone had stolen the barrel and plucked out the wood like a house of broken marionettes it was a scene that played out like a two-cent fiddle, a rhyme that never rounded the bend, an unholy landslide that broke through a…

  theusedlife

  June 8, 2019

  poetry

  creative writing, creativity, mystical poetry, poem, poetry, psychedelic, psychedelic poetry, writing

• Elegance in Circles

  

  Salvador Dalí, Portrait of Picasso, 1947 tell me the entire face is mine, even the subtle interior, like a self-tied knot or the crutch of a malformed pearl that rests a weakened fleece on its forehead and tell me the riddle at the end of the nose is also mine sunny cranial jukebox sly rhythm…

  theusedlife

  June 6, 2019

  poetry

  creative writing, creativity, mystical poetry, poem, poetry, surrealist poetry, writing

• Sandman Express V

  

  Read more of the Sandman Express poems. the price, in the beginning, was a simple necktie with a knot like a half-eaten moon, a vase of flowers and the dust from a magic carpet that had sailed to all seven setting suns or so said that wiry old mystic as we shotgunned along on his…

  theusedlife

  June 1, 2019

  poetry

  creative writing, creativity, mystical poetry, poem, poetry, psychedelic, psychedelic poetry, trippy poetry, writing

• Sandman Express IV

  

  Read Sandman Express, Parts I, II, and III. i never imagined it would all disappear this way, a grove of floating oranges and sapphire giraffes, an acre of magic grass that shone like an eyeful of diamonds out the busted windows of the Sandman, that harbinger of technicolor dreams, while the old hippie wizard and…

  theusedlife

  May 19, 2019

  poetry

  creative writing, creativity, mystical poetry, poem, poetry, psychedelic, psychedelic poetry, trippy poetry, writing

• Sandman Express III

  

  Read Part I and Part II of “Sandman Express.” III. now, it is time i direct your attention to the twilight of my fantasy, a scene that begins with the skin of a tangerine, a poison green snail, and my hopes of finding an old desert paradise, that tequila-covered oasis made of sun and hay,…

  theusedlife

  May 4, 2019

  poetry

  creative writing, creativity, mystical poetry, poem, poetry, psychedelic poetry, trippy poetry

• Lo Lite

  

  Salvador Dalí, Surrealist Composition (c. 1928) between me & the road was a red letter r, an ember of hair or a single faceless masquerade with a line above the brow indicating “no direction” the air was a blue-green funk lo lite rays & the ripples of a halogen fantasy (it is our duty to speak…

  theusedlife

  April 12, 2019

  poetry

  creative writing, creativity, fantasy, poem, poetry, stream of consciousness, surrealist poetry, writing