Galaxy Clusters

1

Watermelon tears   watermelon roll over

Ohio rain

I hold a lightbulb above my head

Palace painted at the top of a rocking chair

I call it Palace of the Wise

2

Back when drummers were also singers

Forget-me-nots            Missouri farm song

I’m supposed to be watching this game

But I’m getting a natural high

Are you from the desert too

3

Already today already   cat’s black thumping tail

Run away to Georgia for a while   100 mile an hour fastball

There will be high pollen tomorrow

Play your acoustic barefooted

Let your hair down for me

4

Geese in the middle of the road

Hey big boulder Nevada

Rowdy anchor nailed to the ground

Don’t be spineless

Brick house with pink trim

5

Can I interest you in aquascaping

Texas coast

There’s a stop sign but they’re not stopping

He likes the pressure   so I sit on him

And squeeze his arms

6

Neon blue car you just missed   Chris Cornell’s voice

Black Louisiana I fell upon

Neon green car you didn’t miss   a lit match tossed

Into a road with gasoline scribbled all over it

Hold me closer filthy closer

7

You were talking about your beliefs

California blues

Smokey Robinson and the Miracles were sexy

We made up a color called top secret

Goose eggs are zeros

8

The manager’s mad   he’s going to get ejected

Good bite        smart Kansas

Bone bruise   grass too wet   fake red sunflower

Blowing in the wind inside

An open grungy window

9

Love tea   roaring tea   urban tea

Sunny Maryland

If only we could see the ocean from here

Female revolutionaries   concrete X’s   slow turns

Mist above the mountain forest

10

Traffic light stuck on yellow

Illinois clouds

Waiting for an invisible train to pass

Euclid showing up in the neighborhood

Our train suddenly shows up too

11

The children the children the children

Magic tricks in Wisconsin

A perfume-scented dog entered my room

Now my room smells like perfume

Repeating bass groove

12

How do I get back to the highway

Hawaii honeycreeper   there are no hummingbirds

Inside the Astrodome   there are silver lights

Inside this premiere

My imagined daughter’s name is Jet

13

I didn’t know the Bay City Rollers

Are Scottish   crimson South Dakota

The college dropout who proved

To be a genius             cat sprawled out

On the bathroom rug

14

Federal employees federal employees

Listen to The Doobie Brothers albums in Virginia

Daisies on a wooden bridge

I remember now

It’s the end of the race

15

The Clash The Clash The Clash

Fall into a music hole with me in North Carolina

Kurt Cobain shows up

On a Saturday night             turtle shells

He’ll be with you affectionately

16

Make sure the e goes in the right place

Massachusetts skeletons

This is what happens on Main Street

Eddie Van Halen shows up to the car show

Can openers are so archaic

17

I haven’t talked about dolphins yet

Lime green guitar from New York

Black goldfish   let’s play with tambourines

I keep a candle box on my altar

I am a punk-ass

18

My teenage heart         my teenage bible

Washington dumpster

I’m not going to cry in front of

Cat’s white paw touching

My face

19

Roses down there   another feather

New Jersey stars

Wear a jacket with no shirt under it

I keep saying nun instead of sun

Dogs chasing birds

20

Moon and the waves   sanctuary for shrimp

Tennessee tongue

A woman saying the word shit

Two people making love in flannel shirts

Football game on in the background

21

Dream talk   the sound of insects

Hitting the window on an Alabama night

The sound of heavy metal music

Coming out of headphones

Autumn is this owl’s favorite season

22

Silhouette of a Buddhist sitting in a window

Swim away Florida

A large patch of grass that needs to be stood on

Dead magnolia leaves   Mardi Gras beads

I fell in love with baseball again

23

Greg Graffin’s voice   several hours ahead

Iowa frog   choose the music

That gets played at a baseball game   we have

Merry weather coming   Kribensis adventurous

When you say the right thing

24

Controversial second albums   glitter socks

Acid-trip Alaska

A million pennies   you get to meet your heroes

A little pebble that cracked a windshield

Full moon home run               light this pineapple