Floating gold
Blank skin

Electric wound
Air ablaze

Ashes in your eyes
Tears in your hands

The ship disappears
Beyond

sand flows
between my toes

i bury them deep
and lie back

let
the surging surf
close around me

feel
the sun's caress

taste
the salt

breathe

i am new
again

Black dress drags
Through the mist

My hair sticks
My cheeks sag

My hands quiver
My legs groan

Soft eyes
Inside

Dew drops
Stained skin

I miss you forever

Projector rattle
Dusty light

Wallpaper cracks
Fluttering memory

Burning tin
Black timber

A face in the window
Melts

Calm air endures
Scentless

A cracked frame
Broken smiles

The ink runs
Down the alley

Red spills
Into the doorway

I glow

The invisible tattoo
A translucent flame

Rage detonator
Molten eyes

Violence in three steps
Two steps
One

I glow

"Who goes there?"
Cheerless and pitiful

A short cry
Then stillness

*I fade

Jump in
Taste the brine

Art lives
Beyond the wall

Future love songs
Ride the swell

Your makeup runs
In the rain

Back street kisses
Well-rehearsed

Cracked vinyl piles
Like onyx shards
Like impressions
Like fantasies

Water beads
Slide along the grooves

Your spattered lipstick
Your chipped nails

It is cold here

Under the clouds

Zebra static screens
Solo chess

A fallout winter
Quiet ash

Empty cans
Jangle across cement

The image of you
Dissipated

Sealed up
The final request

I am a soldier

I was a soldier