Reflective Thought
Writing with music is an  
exercise in crossword poetry
that directs bitterness to live among  
the bottom squares while complacency
runs pole support for the happy, sexy, personal  
agendas that swing freely as three, four, five-letter words
run across and down the ideas that seem impossible to discover.  

Declarative Thought
Wedding bands are ridiculous. What can be slipped on
can be slipped off with little difficulty, and anything stuck is
usually removable with soap or determination.  Marry yourself.
Spend more time in bed analyzing your own probabilities than making
chili or cornbread for the one who sometimes rolls the can in from the curb.    

Vibe Thought
This morning, the sun is telling me to
run with open arms toward its warmth and
never look back. No, never look back at the crumbled
balls of lined paper notes that held the architecture of flowerbeds,
dinner parties, and all the ways to hide the fragile things that are meant to be held,
not heard, not seen.

No wedding rings, recordings, or trees were harmed or used during the writing of this poem.