Each stone laid
Separate but together
Layers and layers
Of constructed existence
The rain seeps through
The slippery spaces of divide
Touching every surface
Recognizing its existence
In case they themselves forgot
What it means to suffer
And the division between
The top and the accumulation
Of rainwater on the bottom
Jan 5, 2015
Jan 5, 2015 at 4:39 AM UTC
I was in the mood for salt,
though I knew you were delicious
I became deaf to your music
though I was once tuned to your frequencies
my nose was clogged like a sickness
which made me immune to your scent
my senses became senseless
and thus I traveled
Looking to wake them up again
Dec 20, 2014
Dec 20, 2014 at 9:06 AM UTC
my lips are frozen
but you are beautiful
The only way I am able
to express
is to write it in icing
with a single candle in the middle
to represent the birth of the amalgamation
of silly, musical, poetic musings
which float like rain clouds
waiting to be opened again
Dec 4, 2014
Dec 4, 2014 at 7:53 PM UTC
I was protecting a treasure
I was sharing a meal
I was hoping to learn the phases of the moon
each of these snapshots
so distant from that little girl
and yet her image replaced my own
as I allowed their opinions to matter
She radiated a different kind of beauty then
back when her toes got stepped on
she learned to tie her shoes
but now in this light
that knowledge slips away from me
like a sheer scarf, the illusion of comfort
and the treasure is exposed
as I am, raw and real
but feeling like contorted plastic
wrapped around these pictures
of stories I used to tell myself
before she even knew
how to tell fables
Dec 3, 2014
Dec 3, 2014 at 12:45 PM UTC
I interpreted the silence
as awaiting, anticipation
I stretched to your vessel
swimming on my expanse
of flowing tears and tongue
in the hopes your boat
would capsize
and sink into me
but you did not fall
in my direction
my compass was wrong
and now I am lost
in my own desperate sea
Dec 1, 2014
Dec 1, 2014 at 5:48 PM UTC
The dimly lit doorway
into a place where you only
spend five minutes and five bucks
the place between lost
and I’m willing to lose it all
the highway, a tongue
and this, just a taste bud
the simple reward of sweet
combined with the punishing truth
that this is the last stop before the end
this is where I find
what I’m looking for
Nov 30, 2014
Nov 30, 2014 at 9:43 PM UTC
reminder of the cold comfort
smell of the basement
the mystery of shelves and shelves
the times and the heights
and the smoke drifting
up in the distance
which later we breathed into our lungs
as purposeful recognition
endless padding and falling
our feet like pedastools
showcasing unrecognized art
which we donate to the second-hand store
only to buy back later
what I’m hungry for now
will probably eat me
until I reverse and find
the path which lead me
to this story which I told
and found repeating
to the walls
which hold our weary arms
stretch marked from grasping tight
to what we found important
Nov 29, 2014
Nov 29, 2014 at 9:56 AM UTC
The leftover scraps of
that meal we shared
so long ago
turns over and over
like a cycle in the dryer
leaving the smell of that rotting sweet
the bone which I buried
and wish to retrieve
I, so willingly,
would spend hours trying to
crack the code
crack the egg
cook it all again
feed me feed me
tie the sinew of
my flesh to your
inspired
on fire
meat and potato recipe
hard to tell if this hunger is a want or a need
Nov 23, 2014
Nov 23, 2014 at 11:22 AM UTC
Round and Round
Spinning wheels
Like the tops on top
of counter tops
never end
again and again
and suddenly stop
the circle breaks
left to roam
these pieces make
wholeness taste
so puzzlingly
ornate
Nov 19, 2014
Nov 19, 2014 at 9:47 PM UTC
I am wrong to call you home
home on wheels
wheels I can't stop
I was wrong to call her home
her home was lost and I was lost with it
"Don't paint your body"
"Only paper for coloring"
I am not wrong, I am not
I am not wrong, I am not
I will let my hands
catch all the tears
which wash the blood
from my stained body
and use those tears
to paint a new body
a new vessel
which I will call
home
Nov 18, 2014
Nov 18, 2014 at 5:38 PM UTC