Poets are sociopaths
masquerading as artists
who've convinced themselves they know how to connect to other people
while having no clue where their own heart is.

I love to watch
          lovebirds
It reminds me
Of the warm
I always search for
but somehow
            always
fly away

and when you said
laughter is like a foreign language
i imagined that i was
teaching you how to
speak it

The scrimshaw of the air, the long whales-tooth of sunlight
Etched with seafarer’s care and his great wantonness for the sea,
A kiss as light as the bottlenose dolphin cresting from the water,
Then night undressed and falling down like sliding beads of watery stars
From the wet coriaceous porpoise skin and a tail of silver fire.