Desperate Measures

Flamingo Express
The suicide map in ocean colors with
roads traced like veins from random pages
torn out of a textbook on anatomy

Swamp Rider
Dark heavy clouds shut the sky
as eyelids of nightshade crush the curtain of
mist on the water

Liquid Muted Reverb
I run my finger across the green rust
& waking foam between tides

Sleepwalking on Water
Les nègres by Genet, but darker
than your eyes in the photograph I buried
in the sand leaves tracks on the mirror
cradled in your arms