you invaded me

made a beehive under my ribs

and all it does it buzzbuzzbuzz

honey escapes

through my lips

and your buzz is worth

the sweet

you perplex me

moon boy

how did you see

sunlight

inside these

dusty bones

speaking of birds

do you ever wonder

what they gossip about

perched on highway lines

do you ever wonder

if they mourn the egg

not hatched?

i read a book about

birds

with snapped wings and

broken necks



and it made me think of you



i think you love me like those boys do

the kind of love you would do anything for

well honey,

without thought,

know i would throw myself in front of a car

for you

you might think i'm ****** or too ambitious

but i'm determined to make the english language my *****

i want to write sonnets and hymns that make you sob

i want to control your heart with my scribblings

i want to make you wonder what language i know

because surely these lines couldn't be anything

but a foreign tongue

She liked mermaids

but not

Ariel.

She liked the briny crash

of incoming waves

the green foam sea foam

bubbling into the sand.

She liked scaly tails

iridescent and barnacled,

the long finger-claws,

hair matted with sea-salt.

She liked the wild mermaid

belonging to the sea.

She liked the wandering mermaid,

because, like the mermaid,

she needed to be free.

it's been a while since you were in my thoughts like this

every time i round a corner, there you are

a photograph that doesn't quite match a face

i wonder what you would think of this

i can't remember you enough to know

in fact, the only memory of you i have

is with that **** cat

can you come back?