thrice do the floorboards creak
beneath your feet, eldest first
and every step is a wound
vitriolic and repeating
i hear the tenebrous stair
spiral forth with the sound
of you leaving
and by the intervals of sleep
i will fall forever, hymnal-red
through the ceiling
our wildest dreams fade faster
in the folds of my memory
thinking of those eyes
one last time
wrapped around me
May 16, 2020
May 16, 2020 at 6:14 PM UTC
softly fall the leaves
like a twin-sided blade
from my grasp to the ivory
and towers of the sun
break and heal
across the windowsill
to meet the taut, ashen skin
on the hands
that released me
what is left of death
to behold but the ending?
Jan 6, 2020
Jan 6, 2020 at 10:15 AM UTC
the cloth is cut
and you’ve been absent
from my dreams of late
phosphene, ever-burning
like a wretched mask
moth-eaten in the night
dearest, am i just the fount
of unsettled dust?
there is something in your eyes
that i cannot place
all this golden blood in me
is a harvest giving way
to the sickle and the blade
rich with rust
Dec 9, 2019
Dec 9, 2019 at 1:58 PM UTC
you caught me
balanced on the chair
like an ether-drinker
living feverish dreams
in the depths of your sympathy
and the bleeding page
told everything
i couldn’t stand to speak
a pendant from the rafters
and the chorus
of your turning key
Nov 8, 2019
Nov 8, 2019 at 12:09 PM UTC
the night fell
as one last revelation
this pale moon, a metronome
in the gulf of my eyes
christ, i was so weak
for avoiding the spectacle
but i’m running out of reasons
left to say goodbye
my phantom at the doorway
all serpentine and sage
while your perfume takes to air
like the harvest pollen
exalted in the rain
and sometime, too
will i finally sleep
by the candlelight of day
Oct 23, 2019
Oct 23, 2019 at 2:00 PM UTC
oh, i could lay down
against her bedroom door
and never wake
though the twisted river
of my mind is coursing
still rapt by summer’s fury
brought to a boil
and the sympathies she shared
all fold and duplicate
with the endless molten morning
and her second storey
glowing like damascus steel
i go to sleep with a smile
that isn’t mine
Sep 27, 2019
Sep 27, 2019 at 12:20 PM UTC
you left your blueish dress
twisted by the pool’s edge
like a cold monument
to every single misstep
and my heart is overwhelmed
with visions of a dancing grave
via crucis in the morning
carry me to our palisade
while these tiny arcs of light
leave my eyes, breaking easily
and your voice keeps me awake
i believe that i need this
you were wrong
i am nothing
but one more familiar face
amid the pageantry
Sep 9, 2019
Sep 9, 2019 at 2:42 PM UTC
gold and silver rain is falling
in a cavalcade of mercy
and dusk’s writhing shape
calls out to me once more
dearest, i swear i saw you
so undivided
and fluttering like salomé
for blood or drink
or blades of grass
we concede to a sweet dream
while your warm breath changes
to a sabre in my memory
Aug 22, 2019
Aug 22, 2019 at 6:40 PM UTC
one last emerald night
at bonnechere park
thin moon piercing through
glass pendants of a weeping tree
the truth is
i still hide your name
inside my lips like stolen bread
beneath our lucky stars
i found the ending
i was searching for
—to kiss the sand on basin lake
while the serrated cold of water
and my heartbeats
slowly dissipate
Aug 8, 2019
Aug 8, 2019 at 10:39 AM UTC
love, you sensed the rain
before it fell
like another easy beast
into the arms of sleep
and i half-believed
that bleeding was a virtue
at the lake of mirrors
i tried, i tried
to forget the murky colours
of your waning moon
dancing freely on the water
as if i had a reason
to sleep and lie
in light of all these folded blades
still pacing in the drain
Jul 23, 2019
Jul 23, 2019 at 5:50 PM UTC