unpublished

don't put my poems down in some book of letter and rhyme. 

they are the ramparts. let them be
not bound to a name like mine; 

I am neither quelle nor canon.
Logos born of our lie

I am a man of treachery and lechery 
like any; men were not born to bind


—from the poetry section of B Street Books, San Mateo, CA, Spring2023