There are habits
We call morality
Laws written
By unseen hand
On the infinite limits
Of infinite possibility
Was it my orchid eyes
The rawness of lips
That refused to shape themselves
to the name of your god
That made…
Jan 6 2013
Shameless Abandon
Oct 16 2012
Once Upon a Time
Once we were a single language
Tasted on two tongues
We knew the landscape
Of words
Upon the edges of crumbling borders
The semiotics of we forked
On dialects of difference
Unraveling meaning
A heart cannot speak
To ears clogged…
Sep 17 2012
Heartlines
There is a space
When tidal blood
Rushes outward
Pulled past the bruised shore
A moment of emptiness
of a heart unfilled
waiting
It knows
Knows that death comes
not in blows
but rather parched expectancy
in the dry beds…
Aug 15 2012
Bedrock Heart
I come upon your truth
Quietly
Unheard in words that
Are casually dropped
Into layers of meaning
There was no cataclysm
Worlds end
In a lowing despair
That is far more shattering
Then shrieking carnage
There was never
Enough space…
Jul 8 2012
Absolute Love
Your love was an absolute
Which should have been a comfort
But wasn't
Steel-edged, held to a law
All onto yourself
While I messily drew
Equations out of quicksand
It should have meant freedom
Instead it was a trap
Each…
Jul 7 2012
Alpha Omega
It begins and ends with you
This feeling
Thirsty desire met matched
Drunk with eyes
Crashing through time
Holding space taut
that I might fall
Damply endless
Mirrored in the shape of
your lips
Softly creating my name
It begins…
May 16 2012
A World Made
Time
There are never enough
stretched moments
to cover my naked love
To clothe
To map the contours
Of possibility
Possibilities
constrained by blueprints
to life fulfilled
to boys meeting girls
to bells ringing
and seeded rice dreams
of forever…
Apr 30 2012
Ground Water
Sometime after
I sat in my car
Sobbing
For reasons beyond
Thought and memory
Ground water hides
The cavernous hauntings
That trickle
Subcutaneous
A hidden wanting
As though we live
Two lives
One in stunned light
The other distant time…