there is a space between where i wish to be where i was where i will be and where i wander currently and without the current every moment i am adjusting to the idea that this emptiness between those dots is not horrifying but the very point of them and that the still waters … Continue reading
you need to cut your hair son for it does not lengthen your looks but mom don’t you know i am bits of you and you are the most beautiful bits of me and son you must listen to your father for he knows how to be a man but mom don’t … Continue reading
the following is a hollowing. * your hands long to belong to me and shortly after i will kiss you for once not tasting myself * feel all fell fall and watch as the fires of autumn wilt in winter with her * the book reviewer wishes to write better than the book the critic … Continue reading
inside her with exploding organs that’ll splatter the ceiling with offal and blood though the walls need to be repainted anyways for they peel from handprints that remind one of ceaseless childhood where endless days giggle to playful wind and a sun on rollerskates down the bountiful road where each work will be a masterpiece … Continue reading
if i die today let it not be because of yesterday but because i managed to slip into the ever-escaping tomorrow * these sentences show too many spaces between us but i cannot stop myself from reading into the bare silences * when i die ensure i am drunk and in love perhaps with … Continue reading
clouds as teeth against your blue shaping into sweet supple nothings that have milked everything from my bite except for you staying solid and untouched by the allure of flight in the sky as a baby unaware it was born without wings * time between us old lovers fumbling wrinkles and curves unwanted through wanting … Continue reading
i suppose i am looking for love that doesn’t look for love or suppositions * i have seen you only in poetry broken reread unhuman again * you will die in gas and gasps and gaps but before breathe back breath from all those who have exhausted and expired already and … Continue reading
and have you considered the sea’s fear of the never beaten beach or perhaps that broken hearts have more openings for entry or that the tired mirror should be shattered for it has seen more than you or that you have seen too much too for you do not reflect much anymore about considerations of … Continue reading
she was a poem and a poet and all of poetry though it was unspoken words when she kissed me * i am poor which makes me pour wasteful water and less bits of i i i * i have felt too much now to feel so little about then but i cannot help it … Continue reading
i am ignorant of the future but i am arrogant enough to plan for buts * you remind me of armageddon armed again army ends * i have nothing to show for after 24 years except for me which took a lifetime to see * i am sure i will join the dead unwilling disjointed … Continue reading