Category: Poetry

I deafened the moon out of orbit when I perched by your door, so I could only figure the shadow of Stitch on your coconut fibre mat. It was 1 am, the world had shifted to tomorrow, and I had no bars- so I pecked.  Your musk met me before you did- Summer holds both […]

We are thrust into the Earth’s atmosphere.  As trail blazers,  In hopes of finding success and glory,  Of finding Achilles or Heracles.  Up there,  We find Icarus.  Skin melting,  Wax dripping from bones protruding from his spine.  Icarus smiles with skin welts that tear,  And oozes,  Dribbling golden blood down his cheeks.  There is skin […]

Little dots suspended in the air with wire-   Is this the multiverse? If so, which one is ours?   The section of strings without dots-  Are those universes yet to be made?  Shadows of dots on the wall-  Are they the ghosts of dead universes?  How long will it take for us to see their deaths? […]

So here we are at last, our final dinner  taken ‘neath dripping, blurry candlelight  Across the table, through the sandstorm, you seek my eye Words are grains of sand, falling  Words that have already met with silence  For the sake of an easy farewell when before you rose from my arms and were gone … […]

Dig.  That’s the first thing they say to me,  When I wake in that muddy field,  Dig.  They press a shovel to my chest,  It’s rough wood, heavy and cruel in my new hands.  Dig.  They say   once more,  I do not know  anything else but –  Dig.  The earth had birthed     […]

You hide you sins in long sentences, and yet you beg me not explode. If you do not hide your lies, you may turn your back – I will, I promise thee, not explode.   Tensions bleed through air and suffocate the innocent, Words not understood nor said by those who will suffer them, they plea – not […]