i’ve been thinking of the silent winter that buries and brings quiet and darkness with enough gray weight that even my closed eyes cannot match for they are too warm while around all freezes into goodbyes until i open like hands holding hands missing the one that made them fall in love with flesh softer … Continue reading
winter, fall or spring summer either way stop * huffs escaping into the cold a cloud fitting you a bit misfigured but so were you when you asked how you looked and i said pretty just to get into the heat of the bar with strangers pulsing to the same rhythm of what is this … Continue reading
the subway sea chugs on while i snorkel air from the outside wondering what fish i’ll smell this time and whether its just me soaked with this place and its people who gasp scream for help i’m drowning i can’t swim there was just too much to do i was always so busy so full … Continue reading
meteors will collide safety pins will poke relationships will fail and before and after the small, hand-worn apocalypses that make you let go and make dinosaurs extinct you’ll only ever find you finding you and inside a hope that you are enough for you for everyone else has died from the meteors or the pins … Continue reading
i held the baby in my hands life breathing life but it was slippery or i was both of us nervous to meet meat it slipping onto the floor not wanting to be picked up like thanksgiving turkey i am hungry where’s the knife i am starving where’s the fork i have never eaten a … Continue reading
love when you go don’t * i spent time trying to change your mind that i forgot how long ago it was since i changed my own i think it was when i met you and promised me that i’d never let go even if now came when you wished there would be no … Continue reading
at ninety i feel like i’ll finally understand how to live only to not be able to live with understanding and all i misunderstood * we have other nights together to try to renew the first night that brought on these * i see my life from a distance on a cliff that i hang … Continue reading
she spills the moon into my hands while i wave goodbye trying not to let the water well up or crash this city which looks so beautiful with its buildings all lit up like distant stars where life may be if only i climb into the night and let it climb into me but then … Continue reading
big blind i fold wrinkles won * numbness in growth leads me to not feeling and not being sharp enough to figure out the solution to the cycle that tightens like a noose till numbness * take in the air and find that winter smells like burning and summer is cool nights where we can … Continue reading
look i don’t want to look at me in your eyes because i hate what you see in me and what i can’t see in you because i’ve blocked you with my i’s * some people are just made for unhappiness like snowmen who don’t like the smell of carrots and who prefer the warmth of … Continue reading