matt r

matt r Jan 5

clicks like an ice cube clattering
off her teeth. my love, she talks
like a cipher spins. still, ringless
and moonless she hangs there
like an invitation; some bootless
rocketship i fancy myself to be.

matt r Dec 2024

obleek trilogy

end with music like a winestain
wrap a shoulder in reflux dig ur
talkn from ur throat its no good

its question time for the dreamers
is there really such thing as cheez
or is it just some joke im not in on

untuc ur shirt like u walk a churchgoer
whip nocturns back like a duvet o pluto
u infest stronomic beds like bredcrums

exploring nonsense. not that u don't know that.

matt r Dec 2024

dans le rouge

oh! despair is a soft orange glow cast
-ing shadows on my throat and i think
i might just ride the sunflares to dusk.
remember me when you see a red sky.

not the usual whimsy i must admit.

matt r Dec 2024

oh so virtuoso

here my lexicon shimmers
like a mirage of flecks upon
the window of a reversing car:
so not getting run over requires
the elegance n intelligence to glean
what really makes a poem irrelevant!
when you read my oh-so virtuoso prose
let my lack of substance turn up your nose;
your letters get longer but paper gets thinner

some nonsense on nonsense?

matt r Dec 2024

spacetime trilogy

the moon bobbed like a lure
rain and other drugs ran off
his coat the whaleskin creak (s)

like a fishing rod missing the
hook it casted on some z-axis
it gifted a girl the fate of laika

took a vacuum to the beach
we call andromeda the dust
leaked oh aries has a mother

matt r Dec 2024

limbo trilogy

shrug the armistice from your
shoulders you little teapot you
brew peppermint rain in vain

in doors we dance like monets
girls i saw you tiptoe into glass
like a still pool of stomach acid

we talk of throwing music out
the window would it be littrin
to play o-love-me-love-me-not?

matt r Dec 2024

monday trilogy

rainfall tangoes on my tongue
it tastes like metal tonight my
bullet teeth could say anything

two purple books sit tails between
their legs on my coffee table ran
-som notes to my temporal cortex

low speakerbuzz like a 1979 sci-fi film
i cast my mind like fishhooks;thewires
a two-stop tramline everything will be

ok?

think im gonna try and do exercises where i just write out what comes to my head

embrace random abstract thought?