Reaching through night
I found you there
and your thoughts
your eyes
your dreams
opened before me
a harbor against
the waves
and the hordes
pressing in
while about us
on all sides fell
the flaming towers
and the very stars themselves
Oct 8, 2024
Oct 8, 2024 at 5:52 PM UTC
She possessed the keenest eye
I have ever known
and the pure
ability
to see what others would call
beauty
before even they could see it
and possessing that raw talent
made her the finest
photographer
I have ever
known
I mean, her photos hung everywhere about
that great hot city
we lived in
and her name was well known
in galleries of all
sorts
it was all I could do
to keep up with her
but I tried, and
once
somewhere in the flat
open
plainness
of eastern Montana, somewhere
between, I think,
Wolf Point and
Glasgow
she told me to stop
the car
so I did, and she got out
walking off into all that tall
bison-grazed and
yellow
grass
to shoot silent photos of an old building
and while her back was turned
I took her picture
but never told her
Oct 8, 2024
Oct 8, 2024 at 5:49 PM UTC
Pushing my soul dreams
through the Japanese curtain
of her will
her resistance her system
of beliefs
her best friend's diary
she shudders and papery
leaves fall where the apples
lay on yesterday's
cool autumn grass
Oct 8, 2024
Oct 8, 2024 at 5:44 PM UTC
Got big plans alright
gonna ***** myself up out there
just a long greasy smear
across the sidewalk of your heart
where'd that ****** come from
they'll ask
as I blur past
right outta nowhere
and you'll do your thing, smile,
walk along as if nothing at all
had just happened
and I'll wait for you
on the other side
while the others wonder
Oct 6, 2024
Oct 6, 2024 at 9:34 PM UTC
With paper bag hands
I try
desperately and with great
concentration
to calm
soothe
stroke and entrance
the fluttering bird
of your love
Sep 12, 2024
Sep 12, 2024 at 7:22 PM UTC
Dim light on tall trees
and slow movement of air
like breath softly exhaled
you next to me
in buttoned shirt and warm pants
afluff, still, and steaming warmly
like horses in winter
the slow tick tick tick
of life's clock on death's mantle
and it's always later
later
later
than you think
Sep 10, 2024
Sep 10, 2024 at 8:30 PM UTC
cringing shadow figures roll darkling ***** of rubber
in circles around me while i sit
perfectly
still
at my table, waiting
and hoping they won't notice me
especially the big one
in the purple vest
i saw his teeth in a yellow flash
when he snapped out at one of the others
a few minutes ago; they
fell in line again, resumed
the roll roll roll of *****
'round and 'round my table but
faster now
i don't know
how they got in
but i'll make a note to ask
when someone comes along
Sep 9, 2024
Sep 9, 2024 at 5:07 PM UTC
a mannequin with wings
flew past my window
gliding softly
like a great
soaring
bird
and i stopped, listening
hoping
it would make another pass
so i could be sure i was not
after all
alone
Sep 9, 2024
Sep 9, 2024 at 4:56 PM UTC
People are like eggs
some get eaten
some break open, revealing
a beautiful, rich, and delicate
center
some lie in the nest
far too long
eventually taking up a dim
green
hue
and rotting slowly
from the inside
and some, against all odds
are held just right, warm
for the correct length of time
and hatch
into vibrating ***** of fuzz
that venture forth
into the cold
waiting
world
Sep 6, 2024
Sep 6, 2024 at 6:18 PM UTC
Now this galley's bound
for foreign ground
the sea's aswell with gold
so we'll ply our trade in ****** raid
and may the lanyards hold
And it's row men row
or the crack o' the whip will show
Now the pirate's life is full of strife
her belly's never full
so she's always quick
with knife or stick
to split a rich man's skull
And it's row men row
or the crack o' the whip will show
So the Roger flies for spying eyes
to let their weak hearts know
that Blackheart sails
among the whales
and her gold lies safe below
And it's row men row
or the crack o' the whip will show
Sep 6, 2024
Sep 6, 2024 at 12:12 PM UTC