I want to draw a sugar fish
Atop of your cheekbone
So it can swim along with tears
And land on your birthstone
I wish to sketch an elephant
Amongst your dainty teeth
So you will never dare forget
That tongue that’s underneath
I need to paint a teakettle
Between your knobby knees
For every time it whistles
You will meet a gentle breeze
But instead your hand picked up a pen
Then turned it to my palm
At once I knew you didn’t need
My brushstrokes to feel strong
Sep 25, 2012
Sep 25, 2012 at 5:10 PM UTC
There’s a monster in my gut
I can feel him breathing evermore
Those subtle, green-eyed snarls
From which emits a midnight slick
Of intoxicating oil
Every and each lonesome eve
He rings the dinner bell, reverberating hunger
Through the acid of my walls, ascending up my spine
No matter how my door is braced
His entrance my meal spoils
But don’t misunderstand me now
Although he is a monster
He has gentlemanly hands
That raise his glass for one last speech
Toasting dreams gone black and foiled
Sep 24, 2012
Sep 24, 2012 at 10:35 PM UTC
Her toes awash with dusty mist
Footsteps. Silence
The desert ate her inside out
Swallowed up her chaos
Vastness sometimes halts the moon
The horizon line abundance
The magic carpet of the West
Wove itself of footpath threads
Rolled out and beaten clean
Presence
Sep 24, 2012
Sep 24, 2012 at 10:30 PM UTC
Folds of skin, and hair, and earth
Mingling amongst us
A mound of lust and bitter pills
Towering above us
Bodies dance more easily
When bathed in dusky smoke
I bid the vastness of the night
Adieu as I awoke
Apr 1, 2012
Apr 1, 2012 at 11:29 PM UTC
The worm he dances swiftly up the ankle of my bones
He crests the waves of belt buckles and hips as smooth as stones
One wiggle closer to the prize
Of brainpan thoughts and wandering eyes
He brings with him a quaint disease
It breathes a wind that buckles knees
The knees that kept me standing, kept my pupils locked in line
Now this black worm has edged into the highway of my spine
The spiral steps and collar bone, a temporary hurdle
Luckily his slippery frame were made for such a battle
So up he goes to dive into my choppy, brainy sea
And loose the anchor off his ship, infecting happily
Jan 24, 2012
Jan 24, 2012 at 12:16 AM UTC
Autumn tucked herself
Into the folds of my limbs
We float side by side
Jan 9, 2012
Jan 9, 2012 at 12:31 AM UTC
Envy grows green leaves
The stem carries all the weight
Blooms get the glory
Jan 6, 2012
Jan 6, 2012 at 7:30 PM UTC
Mind your p's and q's
And don't forget to whisper
The man might hear you
Jan 6, 2012
Jan 6, 2012 at 7:23 PM UTC
Again and again
Your wings make wind feel alive
Disappearances
Jan 6, 2012
Jan 6, 2012 at 7:22 PM UTC
I wish you were my cellmate
In this secret jailhouse heart
Shackled wrists and captive soles
Our bond a metal spark
Of sharp steel keys
In sharp steel locks
That hide us from the air
The air dragged in through two great lungs
The gateway to this lair
We’d spend the days devising plans
For solace and escape
While secretly devising plans
Preserving this round shape
For there’s no jailbreak from ones frail heart
As small as it may be
This red hot blood flows swift and coiled
Sanguine cycle will not cease
Until my red hot pedigree
Flows free and unconfined
By walls of flesh and stark white bone
A mortal contract signed
The day we swim in freedom blood
The day we will return
To mingle true with dirt and roots
And end this prison term
Jan 6, 2012
Jan 6, 2012 at 7:21 PM UTC