"The Crossing Line," "Road Tripped," and "Social Standing"

The Crossing Line

a cross-handed intersectionist
lampooned the cross-haired redlight
a lurid interjection

   spectacle reviews
   project torrid elision prefects

   pronounce the horrifying belief
   branded as defection schedule

traffic attuned to a delayed fixation

( )

nonstop coruscation
makes a foreign statement

on soil

   or rousted whereabouts

   sneaking
   a low shiv in naked heat

   impatient
for the next lather
   foaming

low-toned striations

to popping tension

stationed a derision

( )

words landed
to splatter felt
vexation bites

   to dissect
   merchants of bleak aplomb

gathered to stage a cross-hearted menage

where the eyes
of passion fail to meet

no blind ignition allowed to start a sight

   or a battle of sneak interjections

Road Tripped

den massacres
breathe contempt breaks
above high tongues

   the body proof unscrupulous

its drip storefront music
the gift a cliché pawned

opposite patrons

   leaving in bridges

   ( )

   red clamor
off the ointments rapt
   a resinous accrual
   attention seats

   ever the finer

knowing imposed
ancient acquisitions
on the momentary

   walling threats hearing
   concha music silence

reverberating

   ( )

disillusion grifters
breeding dead envy to
sideline pinched curtails while checkout
   the the
stiffening intuition
irregulars pasture

used sounds record
pair leaving grotto
lava current hard

   to bleaker feelings

   pace tongues song
   the unrepeatable wax

fraying reverberations

a better somnolence

to roadside wingtips lost

Social Standing

a mortal coil
   strikes
no serpentine posture
replicable
maneuver
   to foil attacked
blatant
   downscaling

   a horizon breach
   its tight squeeze
   rubbing over soil

caught in reverie’s dim brocade

*

   velvet leper suit
   attire for a molar
   decay
   as sediment
   or sentiment
replayed

   a fact
   of last writhing

hands outstretched

   the boil a knowing smirk
   a stance before the strike

attempting
   to evade
the reach

*

   a land outstretched

the smirk of rescue

saving detached
no form
grace notes

   at the rest / stops between

posture
   strikes