You were always afraid
your heart filled with
ghosts.
But,
your back stayed

Tail like a river
heart like a soldier
eyes like wet stone.

Sleep now, Easy.

Green for healing
unexpected glee
for code words of couples

Hazel for quiet

'think what
you want to say

wait, til
you can say it right.'

Love is a whip
and life but
a flogged target
plump cheeks rosy with
regret

when I go
I will pull the shades down
fill the moat
with the requisite
piranhas

today I severed the kite string
so I could
instead,
tattoo it into my heart.

I see you in myself
in the way that your bones
are completely different and
the same as mine

I stand
in the sallow light.
shoes of Passed Days
upon my feet.

Too tall to
command the
world in
Napoleonic
fashion-

Eat your
words-
when no one
is around to
witness.

Once I held all
the balloon strings
of a few colours,
some shifted, popped
with the wind.