(2014)
Sometimes we can neither hold on nor let go.
The first time you begged, I near… I had to steel my every nerve to n… To not lose the cadence of my stri… I silently cursed myself for not b… The way I had your hands.
I had been swallowed by freezing w… But the tides have turned for me n… I didn’t notice at first, until th… When I lifted my head, it was to… I was out of my depths for sure, b…
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.
Your shoulders shrug And your chest heaves a great sigh… Your muscles twitching in a way th… Others may not take notice of your… Would that I could take up the ma…
My Stranger, I can’t explain my d… It was there for you even before w… A protective urge to move like a s… A need to strike down and devour t… To dismantle them down to their ve…
It has been sixteen years since th… And began to chew. It took Sixteen years inside his… For me to fashion a blade from the… To slit the cage wide enough to sp…
Come Find Me. I wait on the rock that rises fear… Topped with lithesome trees and th… Its craggy ground a home for shado… I wait when the night lets down he…
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 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…
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…
Is it biology or psychology? I do… What I do know, is that the edict… Is an invitation to nightmares. Where others build, I break apart… I dismantle, I bend to my will th…
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…
It did not creep slowly up my spin… The way I thought it would. It did not thread airy tendrils th… Over oceans of time, Rearranging them in an orderly fas…