he lights one last flame home is where the burning is bed of devil’s rest
decorated in soft skin vines of fire drape around her fireproof face my eyes kneel in worship of a goddess passing by
two mountains hanker to reach across the valley always between them
i didn’t call her because i felt like being alone and celebratory sex wasn’t going t… to validate another year of suffer… another notch in the belt
i entered into my junior high poet… with such a sense of excitement to share the craft that i had disc… just a couple years earlier a craft that my gramma had
i followed the pigeons to Gordon park just to hear them coo their electric feathers alive in the sun
Sue lurks near my street I have thoughts of kissing her but fear to commit
incredible love making will turn wolves into pups bears, cubs again and icy hearts melt to a puddle
The ghosts will be waiting for me when I open the door, remove my work boots and grab a Diet Dr. Pepper from t… They will be snickering as I fill…
if you alone hold me as i battle for last breat… if you alone bear the burden of the body left b… if there is no one else in the roo…
loading the chamber to kill that which he fears most one round will suffice
visceral were the nights we stood… each of us armed with an instrumen… and hearts that beat like tempos we put on a show but we weren’t put-ons
Eclipse was the illegitimate daugh… of the moon and the sun beautiful and frightening shining and dark all at once
last seen at the brink of the abys… screaming at god laughing at the devil and smoking loose tobacco dark eyes and burnt skin
coiled in a moment of wonder to ponder the venom of his existen… remembering every instance that he prepared himself to strike with no recollection of hatching