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1.0k · Dec 2012
Lacuna
Ryan Kristobak Dec 2012
A hole for the whole;
Clarion lacuna.
The cheval glass so immaculate, coeval.
You will find yourself when you sever the sound.
But even some trees reach for the ground.
Inadequate, a voluntarily tethered thrall.
Catatonic canvas;
Goblin shark lockjaw.
960 · Feb 2013
Hatch
Ryan Kristobak Feb 2013
Molecules drift asunder, chasing shorelines
The taste for the oceanic boundless cast aside
Predisposed to march forward in time
Individual existence becomes a product of your mind
You couldn't recognize yourself when you saw me
Or that you are every word of every book on your shelf
Fixed on the fractured shells of its body
The mosaic never sees itself
721 · Mar 2013
The Cascade
Ryan Kristobak Mar 2013
We depress in the confines of cerebral warehouses
where freedom persists only through memories left.
But comfort can be found in the knowledge
that youth cascades down the flesh of flesh.

The sweetest fruits fleetly brush your tongue.
The loveliest tunes are whispers delicately sung.
Let your brittle bones break the malaise strung.
Just let go; let the air out of your lungs.

Reason. Purpose. Meaning.
It was when you realized that your life could be measured by revolutions of the sun.
It was the first time you witnessed the passing of someone you love.
706 · Nov 2012
Möbius
Ryan Kristobak Nov 2012
As crepuscular embers fracture window panes,
The mind wares the solace of this paragon host.
Destitute, edentulous, declawed.
Is joy only to be found in the exchange of hands and throats?
And I took more than my fathers name;
I took his blood and his voice and his pain.
So what is it that separates?
Am I the emanation of original thought or am i just the sum of the harbingers' tale?
Am I never alone or am I bound to wade in the vapid wake?
"Could we be the limbs of a möbius soul?"
The panglossian being wonders.
And wanders.
639 · Jun 2015
Bottom Out
Ryan Kristobak Jun 2015
She looked at me through the bottom of a glass
Crystal eyes and wet strawberry lips
I looked at her through the bottom of the bottle
Seashell dimples and wild dandelion hair


A scarlet chest in exchange for a day in her sands
Swing set smiles
Between blistering footsteps
And icy ocean kisses
Undressed and drowning at the bottom of her bed
Feeling like ****, feeling ******* high
Serpentine limbs beg me
“Stay”
Our own little mattress comedy
Cast across the plaster in pale light


They’re all so ******* domestic
She kicks the chair from under me
Abrupt masochistic compulsions
Baptized in her holy see
Smoldering marquees and lascivious repartee
Let’s drink every drop of this satanic chablis
Until the bottle’s empty
Until we’re back at the bottom
And you look for me
And I look for you
Recounting the events of the first few days spent with a foxy lady.

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