(2014)
Sometimes we can neither hold on nor let go.
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…
When sleep eludes me, insomnia gna… I let my mind’s eye worry it’s tee… The way it flows down to pool at t… As pale as a drift of snow I woul… My tongue catching every last drop…
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…
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…
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 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…
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 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…
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…
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…
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 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…
We enter into this arena of revelr… With my hands wrapped around your… Your arms are stretched out behind… They need no binds to keep them an… The floor is solid under your knee…
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.
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…