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c rogan Jun 2020
i heard her outside
from the hazy veil of steam
streamed red on pure white
bones broken by brotherhood
what have you done, who are you -- -

shrouded youth in dreams
silent voicemails at midnight
complacent lovers
rewritten in scars of heat
where we cower from the light

all I remember
as distillation began
is this can’t be you
green eyed boy, brown curly hair
evisceration of souls

haunting these spaces
this house of sloshing stale wine
forgetting first loves
stitching bone and marrow
until time grows clean unharmed.

x

this must be the place
where no softness will reach us
all you have is now
the pool between our bodies
stillness in the night
c rogan Jun 2020
i am all you need
i am the essence of things
sunlight through stained glass
sweet breath on lightning struck flesh
the caress of the unseen

x
c rogan Jun 2020
gently **** this mind
with the sweetest summer’s kiss
empty garden trails
riverbed buried with sun
in warm dirt we dug our toes

breathe the blades of grass
drink sweet constellation dew
wandering sleepless
capitulate to the night’s
pristine underground

X
c rogan Oct 2019
winding roads pull wind from lungs
green blossoms decay summer sun
ignorance and bliss unravel wordless memory
forbidden touch forgives absence of leaves
dividing sky like flashback film souvenirs
i breathe blades of grass
drink sweet constellation cobwebs of morning dew
wanderings deep inside a sleepless dream
you know you love him
so let him go, the riverbed buried warming sun
into soft dirt we dug our toes
garden trails, empty minds
gently killing time


//
Keep the score, ever widening and chasing circles
Capitulate false aggression,
Vibrations in flowering emptiness
Rapids sweet and clean
Glass-smooth rocks
Cut and sewn in fabric of water
Buoyant bodies shift in waves
Memory shaped on skin
Widening irises illuminate you in the dark,
Your bedsheets, ambient lights above bed
Surrender to aching pull
I’ve been walking a familiar line, painted fingers
I’ve been thinking in murmuring heartbeats
And painting you sleeping
It’s more trouble than you think it is
Up all night, pushing my body across the line
Unfamiliar horizons, how do you know you really ****** up
Trees on the sky, wind in the earth
Fire in bones, the magnetism of you
Suckle colors from hands
Delicate honey nectar
Draws breath from my chest
Jetstream fog hangs lucid in your room
After a fresh rain,
Leaves fall and stain the ground,
Imprints of your hands
Streams trickle down the walls
and pool in between our bodies, still in the night

***
c rogan Apr 2019
ive kissed him more times in this room than my own, on made beds and drunk on floors, outside in the hallway
Clean sinks and washing dishes, these pristine undergrounds.  Sterile lighting, talking through window screens.  
I get insecure, loving you.  And I give myself up too easily.  Before I speak, the only thing I fear is myself, not now but in another time, losing you to my own accord.  
Je ne demande jamais d’aide, et je ne suis pas sur, avant de t’aimer.  Lentement les saisons changent, nous les regardons reorganiser.  Garde moi pres, a l’abri, laisse toi a code de moi.  Les jours vieillissent, avoir mon coeur.  Prends ton temps. . .
Only
kisses became black and blue,
the softness replaced hands around my neck
im carrying this weight with me,
I want to disappear
Into open pages, closed palettes
Quitting teams,
Games on hills on corners of campus
Stories running through the woods, falling down hills
Language of color, language of silence
Speak in actions of the unseen

Shift the scales
It’s like your ghost is still haunting torn down renevations
Tunnel vision triangulating geometric form
I know you don't know
In these hours of golden illuminated spaces
Houses of trees without leaves
L’heure d’or, la lavende dans l’aire
paint my words in open air
Donc je ne peux pas resister
Leave your ghost,
You are gold to me
Empty fluorescent lines illuminate blank fabric
Writing on projection glass walls
Numbers and letters and baggy clothes and I don’t deserve to be writing any of this
Im writing in front of you
but can't bring the words to my lips
c rogan Dec 2018
lungs crave air
after submersion
heavy downpour
buried in your neck
heartstrings connect
my hands crave skin
and moments between kisses
lingering in the dark
touching lips
electric, a soft caress
pull me under your warmth
under your warmth
under warmth
roll up the carpets
paint falls from walls
tape frayed on torn soles
and borrowed clothes
you left in my room
close my eyes
breaths catch on silhouettes
open my mouth
and draw my forgotten dreams
colors of past lives
dance in these familiar rooms
sleep in our beds
like strangers
my mouth belongs to a ghost
of your touch
kiss me softly
touch me gently
love becomes colder in winter
so please go slowly
i’m not dressed well for the weather
you’re from warmer places
different faces
darker skin
not in my dreams
in the space between
our different tongues
live in an idea
paint my walls around your hand
steam covers the ceiling
hands grip warm plates
because you forgot the Spanish word for mug
in dreams I don't remember
feel your presence
in this moment
the cadence of heartbeats
sings at the top of our lungs
make music if they silence you
art if they try to tame
love if they try to change
blurred vision and supernatural delight
into straight lines and smoke light
do not falter for safety in creation
or settle for half loves
for the rhythm of your mouth on mine
is pattern, texture, and light;
shape, form, and stories
that cannot be encapsulated in rhyme or prose
strokes of skin on canvases of bedsheets
the softness of your mind
with cigarette burns and diamonds in night skies
under the blanket of music
your hand on my back
clouds the meadow
softens the line of trees
from forests extended to your fingers
veins like root systems
tracing jawbones and straight teeth
the wind of Sedona
breathes sound and color
sight and touch
beyond the light spectrum
within our blood
c rogan Dec 2018
the depths of the sky
cannot contain my thoughts
in your absence

light quavers behind stars
beyond The Expanse

the meadow outside your house
surrounds in fog
sleepless nights pass through hallways
like a ghost looking for their body
brouillard dans la crepescule

lay your body next to mine
with only the sound of breathing
this is holy

and tell me softly
what colors you taste
behind your eyelids
when you lay in the arms of your lover

turn off the lights
and whisper to me sweetly
what you saw burning
when you felt the warmth of suns
and centers of worlds
in a forgotten memory
away from here
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