I’ve been covering my feet
In time’s dense clay,
Stuck to a mountain side.
I’ve been curing underground
Sitting on my knees,
Going dormant.
I’ve been hoping one day
I will dissolve into
The volatile components
That I’ve buried
And the eruption will
Disintegrate the covers from
The bedrock that I can’t seem to get out of
In the morning
Jun 10, 2024
Jun 10, 2024 at 10:33 AM UTC
as we climbed into the canopies
bright green swallowed me
through sweet soil
and dew cloaked womb
eyes mist wet
I emerged
stinging new
fingers unfurling
grasping for a nurse log
touching
furrowed bark
and smooth baby caps
soaking shades
glistening with epiphyte moss
sipping centuries
to hold me
in this crisp breath
Jun 2, 2024
Jun 2, 2024 at 12:40 AM UTC
The place where I live
Floats on a lake
Where wind feels the same
As an earthquake,
And the water never freezes
Only marries with the sky
As they drown in each other.
Nov 8, 2023
Nov 8, 2023 at 10:48 AM UTC
I’ll pull dead things out from boxes in the ground,
I’ll let their rotting corpses be seen,
And churn them into compost with earthworms,
So I can grow.
Feb 10, 2023
Feb 10, 2023 at 2:45 AM UTC
In that hot summer of sticky skin,
Pulp stuck in gums of our stifled grins,
You licked limeade from my citric lips,
Then went spelunking in pitchers of it
Maybe the fructose was high,
But the syrup felt simple,
So I drank my fix straight from your dimples
Then all at once - your sweetness drained-
All limey alchemy wrung from your brain-
...and so went my first name
(Why won’t you say my name?)
Acid corroded my skin, now blistered and sore,
But I’m still sweet for you at my core
Are you sour at your center?
Or just tough on the rind?
I hope sugar from limeade lingers in your mind
Oct 13, 2022
Oct 13, 2022 at 1:16 AM UTC
We trudged through steep snow as it melted,
And you caused avalanches with every step,
You teared apart entire forests,
While I was too busy walking to notice...
The water is smooth opaque turquoise,
Just like in the pictures you showed me,
As we stand on a rock at the water's edge,
You take my hand and ask me to jump;
Then wind rages through the valley of us,
And the ripples of clear remind me:
Smooth are waters with no depth-
Bellow is only a shiny surface,
Where nothing breathes.
Jun 17, 2021
Jun 17, 2021 at 2:49 AM UTC
embrace me
drizzle syrupy whispers in my ear
press powdered lips to the back of my neck
your candy shell around my creamy center,
our licorice legs twirl together,
drift to sleep on egyptian cotton candy
I can't sleep
but I'm not sugar high
when we kiss I taste aspartame
sweet, but artificial
still, so close to the real thing
or maybe I just can’t tell the difference?
May 14, 2021
May 14, 2021 at 1:41 AM UTC
I fear that inside
I’m made of silver halide
I can’t risk exposure,
so my pupils go wide
as they thirst for light
in this room sealed tight
while lusting and longing,
for my dark to turn white
and print on my brain
black and white frames
of a moment in time,
that will always remain.
But a moment of light
means I must let some in…
I'm sure my development
can never begin.
Feb 21, 2021
Feb 21, 2021 at 2:54 PM UTC
See me now,
So you can’t picture me later.
Let the blue light move across my vinyl skin.
Trace the slew of whispered pros down my spine,
too soft to hear.
Pull my hair until you tear out the pages that I won’t read you,
Because I won’t read you.
I’m fine with watching the movie and never reading the book.
Maybe skimming the first few pages, then leaving the rest to collect dust on the nightstand...
Without so much as a bookmark.
For now, our legs on cotton sheets are moving on the screen.
A flash of images refracts into our minds,
only to be lost by next week.
A predictable plot.
No suspense of a next chapter.
No rich velvet of ink on our eyes.
They say the written word is dead,
But I don’t know…
maybe someday I’ll try to read something…
But not tonight-
Hit Play.
Feb 20, 2021
Feb 20, 2021 at 12:30 AM UTC