when you realize you don't care
that you're going to get wet,
you'll never need a jacket again.

I cant write
there aren't any words here
I can't inhale enuf
I'm about to twitch
Calm comes on cool air
Gathering cricket calls
embedded in the dough of tonight
pressed thru my window screen

threads of night air extend and withdraw
a lure to my skin a sink to my heat

Breathing into bags of verse
Is it this end of the continuum
or the other I want

Your kind words whispered clear,
With your soft smile you wiped my tears,
Told me to cherish them,
To not shed it for unworthy cause,
But when I looked at you through the corner of my eyes,
As if yours were sparkling,
Teary,
From crying for me.

And from that moment onward,
I knew you lied when you said my heart was fragile,
Because yours were as delicate as Lisianthus,
And mine were a mere Daisy.

Yet your existence proves that,
Being brittle as can be is never weak.

e-cigs and i-phones
every teen's downfall:
prefixes.

In a dream
I drank the color
of your eyes,
and swallowed
the tone
of your voice

The water rushes down my face
the soft glow of the overhead light drenches me
I am not my body
I am not my mind

Dread sets in
my mediocre life
replaying
regretting
living

If a writer
Falls in love with you
       you can never
                die................