strings that bind manipulate each step we take future, past, present-day threads tangling

Sycophant milquetoast running from your brown nose Everyone superior looked down on in the mirror Apologetic worm

perched upon the table made of oak and maple stones carved of cedar and sycamor… is grandpa’s checkerboard when mom and dad play rummy

soldiers take the field foam swords and shields Costume City troops dressed in batman suits they paused for lunch at noon

breath of sky on her spine creeping, chilly blows flow down to her thighs the slightest summer wind

Lawn clippings left in my mouth Finest cheese weed Couldn’t produce a lick of saliva buzzing from the sativa August 12, 2023

Flutter of conure wings a young girl sings leaning on the railing of her apartment balcony home from her date

a chandelier of rainbows tattooed below her eyebrow blush and bruised, Captain Luna inspected the sloppy crew dressed in their business suits

from the barber chair mirror he watches the fear in their eyes a forty lb coo-coo clock hangs on… covered in a dozen years of dust the dust isn’t important at all

I pray every one of their children… Lord, make it so. I pray one of their sons murders them in cold blood, while the rest of their kids cover…

I’ll never wake up next to her so, I hold her in my dreams. I dare not speak my heart, left my thoughts in sleep. we sit upon a park bench

a porch light leads me home glowing bright like a lighthouse beam warning of the rocky shoals the farmland sky at night

gliding along the wavelength riding the sonic chain stomach acid, gutteral pain banister of razor blades backbeat drum machine

gravity takes ahold of his body an… talons, pinning his shade by the n… on a cold night, dim lit stretch o… underneath a flickering street lig… wings, carrying his body and stret…

back aboard the ship Captain Luna sat with Bart pressing him; how’d you manage this little slip? you were once my savvy knight