I cannot smell - for all aromas have ceased without your smoke and cinnamon scent. I cannot taste - for the food turns to ashes on my tongue in solidarity with what we had. I cannot hear - for when […]
Somber claws scratch the catwalk, carcass crawls forth from demise, eighth chance passed, on to the ninth. Crepuscule begins--impending blindness, onward journey continues--ambitious feline.
There’s this natural phenomenon known as a dirty storm. The ash in a volcano creates enough static electricity that it will shoot up into the clouds. Absolutely dangerous, but incredibly beautiful. I am bad with words, but good with […]
Our temple is the arena. Our shrine is the ice. Our skates, are the Holy texts. Our equipment is our prayer robes. The moment those doors open, as the cold air caresses the face, mysterious magic overwhelms the body. That […]
Look in the mirror and put on your face. Some waterproof mascara frames each eye because you must be prepared just in case your day turns from bad to worse and you cry. If a tear should fall, you will […]
It takes feet to land But a person to fall. 2 hands to hold on, None to let go. You want a person to catch you So you don’t have to care, But in the end You do. Because it’s […]
Indiscernible grey walls envelop a faceless monolith somewhere in Viman Nagar. Planes trace the clouds above, keeping the night from beating the sky into black. Outside, there are pups with broken hind legs, feeding on guttural excrete of the land […]
Give to me the softsharp press the moons of your nails at the dip of my spine, please give me a reason. I am hollow, choked on the uncertain breath of waiting. I could swear it was your voice in […]
holds babes and breaks quick swaddle it in the bath wean it into a rip- tide gurgle salt water tend that sore throat boils not when watched burned? hold it under the tap tap a leak in the house drain […]
I remember how the water crested. And also the pupils that remained fixated beneath the deluge of a dimming August sun on iridescent Scotian lakes. I remember how your hair floated; swelling with the sonorous tremors of the ephemeral cosmos […]
I brank a dottle I mean I drank a bottle of wine tonight and ate sausage and egg wrapped in chewy pancake a crepe? I went from being hungry and tired to just tired and filled with a loneliness not […]
A soft bee’s window knock reminds of its existence. How the bee made such an error does confound, Bee must be blind to filthy glory that sticks to touch. If I were Bee, I’d wonder if there really were a […]
I brought a box of your junk back and laid old weapons on your doorstep it’s an armistice to begin this new chapter full of treaties and thinly veiled hostilities. We each sign sallow documents with our own pens so […]
i like to think that maybe at night when it is very quiet, your mind also grows quiet, and you are able to thank yourself for what you have done today. and maybe your last fleeting thought before sleep envelops […]