A crooked edge.A worn spotto keep an ache going.One somber pledgeto wishat a pair of armsto hold your tired head.To lift you into rain,far from desertion. A morning that I breathe,mourning I keepthrough a vast sleep.I hold time close.One hand clinging to a minute,a broken second holding an hourat that midnight flamea moment grew a […]

Some day. For a kiss, I willlose this human self, to find youcovered in a candle’s matter.Burning at your top,your hair aflame in disarrangement,while that moon turned blood-redwhen you dropped. In a broken cradle, I becomean infant on an absent thumb.Consolation became resignationwhen I saw. To you, when you thawed,when your flesh smearedas gold to […]

How in thistime to toil our wordshave all glimpses becomethis futile, fragileparanoia? Love had not beena direction. More ofa redirection uponguessed, selected pathwaystowards sweeter days. Lesser to you,greater for me, upon a nestlingtranquil sea of revulsion.I kiss these winds, in a hopefor your brittle return. I keep shelteringthis heart, within stone.I keep holdingyour memories, beneath […]

A wind changesthese complexions intoagonized resurrections.Blood for your roses,regrowth to your garden,as thorns give wayfor tears to come intoyour devilish play. Where deceit in its conceitgives a road for a falsejourney. I taped our mouthsfrom ever screaming.I shut our eyesfrom ever falling for answers,praying in warm sands. Where you lingerhas been where Ipoint a finger.Down […]

An hourspent in a mind,toiling itself, apartfrom a described awarenessof passages in time. Pages of outpouring gracewere kept in loathing.Keep me, in your mourningover tears where I can bescorning all that leavesfrom this heartin its disease. One love, one ceremonyto ease eons into a lifetime.We spelled our names over white,nailing vain certaintieswith black. We became […]

Lost bird, trapped.Cageless in your eyeslooking for summer,high onhues of September.Wherever are you everwhispering? While I severthought after thought,you wonder. Your blood, gone idleinside hollow veins.Lost bird, collecting her notes,bending sadness with hertransparent form. All revealed, even in modestselection of careful eyes.I remember those daysI reached for nectar seas,using language of broken pleas. When you […]

Though wekept brushing asidegrains that set a stain,our lipsfound a depth that wemight have kept, were weto remain asleep. Grains to our dust,in our death, upon reddest rust.Countless as snowwith summer bringingour bodies low. You save a cripplefrom peddling his favoritetime to keep sellinghis heart upon a hook.You send over a kissto remind these ruined […]

Those same stampsto time’s disheveled face.Those present waters,here to level our entrancesto uncovered surfaces.Waist around, with a hand aboutyour form in a blood-red ocean,with a kiss for our journey. Awake to undertakethese moments where wediscover hope before its doorcloses a broken dam.We are meant to flooda land in our radiant blood,to water driest soilin deserted […]