the following is the aftermath of promising to never do poetry again. the following is also not poetry. * when was the last time you stopped measuring the length of now the instant between when things were figured out and when they were not how often you would say um not for a filler but … Continue reading
you must’ve known that there was a moment straddling laughter breathing in sunlight absorbing the cut grass of bugs and air where you were playing with your neighbourhood friends for the last time you maybe realized it when you were summed at 44 reigning in a lawn mower picking at your now ruined pants … Continue reading
so it was love and now what it is isn’t bad either standing in a stuck room waiting for lights listening to a door explaining that the only real thinking left to do is in your dreams seeing morning crawl over what used to be a mountain but now is a mall … Continue reading
i will admit to you only that this is not the life i wanted to live that i toiled in poetry i could never learn to write that there was a story that would require no more to be read i did not voice that often i was too loud too quick to judgment including … Continue reading
this is how it’ll end with sunshine and the dog still on a walk moving through the snow banks in a crystal chasm of what could’ve been if only the day was a little bit longer and the night wasn’t so long with you smiling a warm light filling happiness shared between your … Continue reading
i’ll be a minute one second just need to go to the bathroom to make that smile once more that feeling of being filled with light generous warmth that eats into me devours me consumes my body whole for i have let you in again to knowingly and timelessly ruin my life once more * … Continue reading
in beginning there was nothing in the end there will be less in the middle there is you telling me in a language i cannot name that the sun is fading and the clouds are just misunderstood lakes and that you can’t do this thing anymore that you’ve been waiting a while to say it … Continue reading
lay me in between the arms of your doubt and your sleep keep me close when there is no love even if tonight we are lovers consider me in the curl of a question mark when you are huddled trying to learn how to hold tight in spring eaten by the heat and the leaking … Continue reading
you must understand that it is not you which i know is difficult for you but rather it is i who knows it is i who is at fault here for all this misunderstanding now between us which i’m sure you didn’t realize which is part of the problem which i want to stress that … Continue reading
another pork in the night remembering she does not eat meat after a restaurant with no choices and the leftover discussion of what it means to waste food or lives or do you know how the animals are treated in their little cages with their little lungs they are starved injected with … Continue reading