an ocean sunk in the middle where you left a deep blue that one could slip maddeningly in love with plump there where no one knew how to swim in a condo with a door too small and a bed too empty on the fifteenth floor of a city that sees its shore receding daily … Continue reading
what full flowers you planted in my pupils but i could not see what solacing songs you echoed in my ears but i could not hear what longing love you holed in my heart but i could not bleed i was still plucking the flailed feathers from the bird … Continue reading
it is the silence i have been writing about the separation of twenty years during a life with another you cannot remember the spindle of sun caught in an apologetic curtain the yawn of a plant growing the sympathies of the cement for the sky who say all the same back the naked nights that … Continue reading
where did the day drip to when i was once in so many strangers’ photos by accident laughing with the waves beside a family at the beach or as a grain in the dark distance against the embrace of two lovers or with you who wondered how many people thought of you when they saw … Continue reading
do we have time to watch the birds we who were the sky can we stop to swim in the ocean we who were the waters is there enough skin to bask in the sun we who were the light what are we now though we who were we until we needed to … Continue reading
if you stayed the streetlight would suck stars away as always night would pool in lakes the seasons would come talking of weather to people already complaining that it is not so and so compared to last year if you stayed there would still be people at a cheap diner with years of marriage … Continue reading
the following is following is * give me me that bad body that’ll pick up when wiping out of my mom’s vacant room where the darkness is too blinding and the light has been known to tip the cold with a twin that wants to save his soul left there in the place of death … Continue reading
the following are not the the, though the ends too * love me until i love me * you are made of galaxies that didn’t make it but that one day can figure out how much failure can be created through all you are and mostly aren’t * are you the smoke of the cigarette or … Continue reading
in the grey ground where the bodies grow green i tried to excite you just as you were sleeping after the dawn that died with still too much to do in a city that no one saw like this at night where the buildings stand alone occupied as stars in slumber if only you would look … Continue reading
this is the taste of death but i cannot be hurt with the years that have gone since you have spending years trying to not be you which is such a you thing to do yawning years slugged into unconcern quiet as a growing flower will when the forest comes in vengeance of all the life … Continue reading