Wedding Band

It is A promise A reminder A symbol It is not A collar A leash A chain Companionship, not ownership Freedom, not bondage Love, not possession

don’t marry me

i would eat you off of a spoon i would take you to the moon i would take your hand in marriage, and you’d have it annulled soon i would take your weight in Advil i would hold your hand to travel, i would kiss…

Transfer

If I transfer footage I’d be your slave If I didn’t transfer footage I’d be and asshole What if I erase What if I replace You

My Poem For Tomorrow 9PM

Probably sleep and lots of it another quiet day? I can’t guarantee that This has been fun a great challenge my first thoughts were to cringe.

(xii)

these quotidian phases of life,these diurnal dimensions we dwell in.this missing you, the elusive touch,the feel of your untangled hair,the smile, slow-spreading like sunlighton melting snow, and the memory of ceriselips, wet, eager….unreal. ….these routines we rue,the lives we choose to cocoonour twin-souls in now;…

Saturday

The sudden crack of fireworks leaves a ribbon of sulfur twirling thick through the August air. Adolescent laughter billows up. Cigarette smoke mingles with clouds of gnats. The night buzzes with a nervous haze.

The gift

Dear God, I know its been a while, and I’m sorry for my absence. Life has been anything but easy, so I’m working on some balance. Tonight I’m asking for one very special thing, although I’ve asked before. The bible says you hear me, but my…

Dear Pippi

Dearest Pippi, Even though I am older and no longer read your books way past my bedtime with a flashlight under the covers; I often find myself longing for your gift of storytelling. How goes it in the fantastical world of seafaring? Pirate ships, lost islands,…

The Point of the Whole

Hour 13 – 6:00 PM   Color my world foresaken the word. A life still yet lived Is a mystery unrelieved. What will come of my ambitious goals. A fortune of gold, yet I want to reach souls. people buy up the marketing But still…

Sensing the void

At three a.m. I went above to stand on the deck, swaying beneath my feet, and beneath a new moon. I had an instinctive sense of the vastness I was standing in- under me as well as over me and all around me. Oblivion for…