the stick
was charred like
me after you
but unlike the stick-
through the ashes,

I bloom.

It's not the rain
that makes my eyes wet.
It hasn't rained in forty days.
Nights are long and quiet.
The silence cuts to bone.

It wasn't rain that quenched the fire.
It hasn't rained in forty nights.
The well is dry... so am I.
Nights I sit in silence
while it rains.

r ~ 4/19/14

What's so bad about remembering
Only for a little while?

The stillness was broken
by the hunter's victory call,
a fair warning to the prey,
now clutched in talon,
a victim to the night.

i curl into your back and you wear me
like armor into your dreams.

under your hands i turn to water
or iron and then you bend me again.

you say you knew it from the first when
the space between us bit its tongue.

i didn't know it though i ground my teeth
down that night under your name

and spat out all others in my sleep.
i didn't know single-mindedness

til you packed your suitcase and placed
it against mine outside the door.

i didn't know that it could be like this.
a reflection caught by the tail

of you watching me and i see more.
for you i am more. i have to be.

Oh Look! Intelligence!
Says no one as we stroll through the store

Trailer park arrivals
Getting darker vitals
Let's just rhyme random nonsense

I took a stroll with God today
He's risen, you know
I took a stroll with God today
Imprisoned in sin, I know

There's coffee in my brain
And coffee in my hand

And stains where no tear drops
e'er fell

There's chocolate on my toast
There's chocolate on my toast
There's spices on my roast

What's this world coming to?