(2014)
Sometimes we can neither hold on nor let go.
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…
This feeling I have for you, a cr… Burns low in my belly. It offers no peace of mind. My eyes are closed to where I am, My thoughts instead tendril out li…
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…
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…
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…
Once, during last Fall I think,… It was cold outside and I slept w… Steeped in my blankets, my vision… As far as dreams go, it was ordina… I kept finding myself in different…
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…
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…
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…
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.
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…
I watch the sands of time. They grind off the color in your h… Completing the paleness of your wi… The coolness of your facade belies… The fires that warm me in dark tim…
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…
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…