(2014)
That blue-gray rainy day, the blue-gray funeral parlor. There you were laid out in blue and gray. So still.
That cranky old mongrel hound cooped up down the alley; he ain’t got no teeth no more but he still knows how to snarl. he gets them young pups all worked…
Are you the one I have no words f… Are you the one who seeks the space between these lines? I used to think I’d know you inst… Now I don’t know anything at all.
It seems for ages, I have been trapped behind yet another version of what I want to think I know. I was so sure I loved you
What lingers within me is ancient… prepared for the worst of all poss… No matter how deeply I rest while… it’s forever awake, coiled and rea… It seems to be from before there w…
I was addressed today in the secret silent language that everyone knows; except for me. It was assumed I’d know exactly
Been wasting away in this hovel for too many days to count; wishing, hoping, scheming, sometimes even praying, for any way to get out.
I’m not angry with you. I am hurting, and as usual, I don’t know why. I don’t know why I cry
Beloved goddess, sweet holy mother of us all, you who beckon me throughout these hectic days
I am seven years old. My brother is ten. The beating was brutal. My brother is recovering conscious… I believed he was dead.
Seems no way out, but deep within. There’s a resonant voice calling from the depths of my being; I am not what you imagine me to be…
The old priest gazes out upon his… each head bowed before the sacred… A scarred and broken bodied warrio… seeking inner peace and final abso… An elderly wealthy man of commerce…
Listen. There it is. The hum of perfect silence at the centre of all that is, and isn’t.
For those who only know oasis it must be difficult to fathom another way of life beyond the wal… amidst the shifting dunes. Those that follow gypsy trails
I hold truth as the highest princi… I am a liar. I value honesty over all else. I am a thief. I expect integrity from you.