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I was taught not long ago To shield myself from praise, From every stray word of kindness Shot carelessly in the breeze – Taught to make myself small By both predator and prey In their feral circles Of victims and victors – Taught to pave my own space But not far from the fire, Where…
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Gathering speed I slide out of the eyes of tomorrow Down a steep secret path Into sweet delirium – Into a hidden joy That I’ve welded within Swallowed whole, the map downward And etched it in memory – I backslide ever faster As the year grinds forward, Sputtering and smoking, Crushing reveries to dust –…
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Emptiness takes and takes Until I am spare, In the ruins of apathy Of sickness, of denial – It gives back after days, Beyond the radius of wrath When the sharp loss dulls And leaves a pale scar – It gives back when I’m leveled And beyond recognition, Beyond the blast, beyond the shock…
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Tread light through your frame of mind, Over broken glass Over a ceiling in shards Over a deepening chasm – Tread light And allow your screams to unfold As you pelt the hard ground With cold rainfall – Stay afloat in the silence Above the snares of the mire When your heart weighs heavy…
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Striving for the surface breeze From the rich black soil, To feel my lungs expand With bottomless greed – On the brittle surface I will gladly surrender To exhaustion’s charms And fevered illusions – Clawing back to the surface Where a desert wind mourns Full of thistle and sand To find refuge in its wrath…
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Melting In the froth and steam When the door slams shut To a dreary Monday, To its frozen dead weight – With eyes closed and tired bones The water conquers it all, A furrowed brow A clenched jaw Slipping away with a sigh – A knot is loose and unwinds In the boiling riptide,…
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Idle years Become hungry chasms That cannot be filled, With lovesick rhymes And weightless dreams – A long snowfall of sonnets Piles high in my basement, Cradling the bones Of long exhausted screams – Now paradise is sinking, Now its ships slip away, Over quieter horizons As I feed the calling grave – Will it…
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When will home be our port of call And rise out of the surf, Dressed in jewels With a sweltering tune? – Even when we remember Its entangling maze How it trapped summer days Between buildings at dusk – Even when we recall Its impassable haze Parched and ablaze In squalor and rust – Should…
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Sold for scrap, The burden of a memory Sails away in fragments Down a steel grey river Onto wharves unknown – Set adrift before its wealth Can shine through at first light Before I’m taken along On its winding voyage – Farewell at last To that barge of old bones Fated to be remade In…
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There’s a broken faucet in my mind Spouting brackish water From a jagged wound, A sickly flood for my stomach – I’ll be filled to my scalp Before I shut the valve I’ll stagger drunk on the swill Before I seek repair – And I’ll blast apart In oil black geyser After months of neglect…
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