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Why can't we have meaningless talk
the way people have meaningless ***-
you would crash over me into a
river of un-scathing emptiness
and leave marks on my skin-
stories that this was where
you started to tear at
the seams
effortlessly
like the silkness
of your sorrows on my floor.

You would become a sultry verse
in this anthology of every day
lodged between the rush and
vacancy of broken hearts
and anguished limbs.

You would radiate the heat
of your angry, angry heart onto
the cold deadness of mine,
and we could burn and melt
all at the same time.

Meaninglessly you would leave
me out of breath,
gather your clothes
and go home.
These days I could only wish my heart could ride over this storm. Meaninglessly.

The first "bold" poem.
There are stories in your eyes.

I never told you how
sometimes I fell asleep
with the thought that you
were perhaps the moon-

always disappearing
with the dawn.
I would awake with
nothing
but the shape of you
on my bed and the
gloom of you on
my skin.
 Sep 2013 Genma J
Wade Redfearn
You have tried calendars, and
a house bedecked in post-its.
I know. Try to put a collar on time,
it sheds all over your furniture.

You think time is:
You think life is:
The sun goes down,
the dew comes up.

You think time is:
You think life is:
Two hours with a movie.
Four hours with an amusement park.
Six with a car ride.

You think time is
an anxious pet
fed and watered
who lives in the same house
and sleeps in a different bed
who sometimes needs to be let outside.

That is not what time is about.
Time is about
a rusty cabinet door that squeaks when you open it.
A squeak you never noticed before.
Time is about,
when you have piled enough leaves enough autumns,
your heart makes the sound of a spoon in a teacup,
and then where do you go?
Sweden?
Ask me.
 Sep 2013 Genma J
Josh Taylor
I’m falling down the rabbit hole again
Descending further into my own guilt
Gone through the looking-glass of fear and pain
Shame living in a house that I have built
I wander, lost, and find a Queen of Red
Hands beautiful and fragile took my own
Now bent as claws, she wants to have my head
While guilt and blame both chill me to the bone
When roses red with blood begin to bloom
And jokers fill the deck with hate and lies
With tension thick, so neither leaves the room
Why — then, the teardrops sparkle in her eyes
     A heart that’s broken in the dead of night
     My head, a gift, to try to set it right
 Aug 2010 Genma J
Hands
Distance
 Aug 2010 Genma J
Hands
There's a sensation of
floating
here,
diamonds
rushing past
the corners of our faces.
Space is only
the distance
between
two orbiting
bodies,
two objects who
obsessively
tug and pull
on each other
because no one else is around.
I see
gemstones around me,
fortunes
in
mineral materiality
wasting beside us.
We
do not waste
in this space,
we may
only grow,
age,
harden
but gleam
due to the
molten hot
pressure of
countless hands
touching
pushing
grabbing
stroking
pinching
prodding us,
stealing and
plotting
though they pet us
nicely, now.
We
haven't slept,
the diamonds
shine like
miniature suns,
being pulled towards the
immense contraction
of our
tentative
super
massive
black holes.
White blocks
emit light
from below,
the source of the
glow.
Night sets in,
the stars would be out
but
there are stars within.
After the glow
comes the afterglow,
permeating
all and
floating through
everything,
lifting the
pearls and
diamonds
from our necks and
our bodies,
stringing them
back into
space.
No one
cares
about what will become
of them,
as space is
the true richness,
the attraction between bodies,
the tug and pull
of heavenly objects.
Let the hands
invade you,
ravage your riches
and your minerals;
regardless of them
or their
ruthlessness
you will still glow,
you will still glow.

— The End —