(2014)
Sometimes we can neither hold on nor let go.
I write so that you might understa… Early in the afternoon, people bus… I am blind to it all the moment yo… For me, you are all I see, a comb… Straight backed grace, purposeful…
In the place I used to reside, it… Broken words and shattered glasswa… Paint climbing off the walls, plas… The very structure looking for esc… When I would wake up, hands fisti…
Your ideas slid over my thoughts l… I tried, out of bad habit, to chan… But the relentlessness of your pra… Eroding my deflections, to seep in… We are, none of us, flawless creat…
I hate the way you look at me some… Expectant, like you are waiting fo… It’s horrible because I want to,… One day my resolve will crack and… It will ignite a tragedy.
I slink across through the tall an… The water is cold as it wraps itse… An icy tongue chasing up to my cal… Tiny fish silver past my toes, as… The chain of my days has grown too…
The Governmental junk drawer has… It is full to the brim with half t… All around Atlas’ keep people go… They get up to alarms that do not… Their lives run on poison and dist…
The air tastes of waiting tonight,… A pregnant pause, aging ever darke… The gathering storm of stillbirths… How unlovely the tide has grown, How like a thief, it slides in ste…
I walked the path in blindness, Not seeing what lie ahead. But if for want of dying, I’d have stayed myself in bed. Though light still soothes my temp…
I build walls impossibly high, I… That’s who I am. This, this is highway robbery. This is you jumping out of the sid… Putting your heart to my temple, t…
If you ran away from imaginary kin… I’d chase your smile down narrow s… Into strangers yards and through r… I’d make every effort to find you,… Teach you to sway your hips to som…
They say it’s the thought that cou… If that is correct, then I am wel… My thoughts are the only place tha… Selfish and possessive, startlingl… I don’t think there is a place in…
For the first time, I want the wo… To have my sphere collapse down un… A beautiful desolation, in which… Veiling, we two, from decrepitude, To be ever fixéd as heralds of the…
Untimely specter, how you’ve swaye… The obedience of my North is alte… The needle writhing on the plane o… The course you’ve set is punishing… And I am made weary by the mercil…
The specter of jealousy circles ro… It looms like a bird of prey, wait… I am not blind to the way it manif… Drawing out the worst in people, To turn the majesty of Love into…
From the porch, where I sit to wa… I watch the last of the Sun’s lig… Vicious gusts of wind bend the tre… I breathe in the scent of the comi… Thunder growls in the distance.