Haunted
Midnight visits with feeble jaws, while my teeth grind on white horror – my head has awaken, my body has not. A house is clouded with my ghosts. Beautiful, disgusting! Numbing my legs with a chainsaw...
View ArticleThe Fog
The Fog glances at me, as if I am a seventh morning in black coat prayer. Twice, I have been veiled by The Fog. Twice, I have ridden wounded winds to secretly watch dead men bathe in weakness. I have...
View ArticleWithout Myself
The music, with sharp tongues and daggers, presses hard against me. I have been swinging from lyrical ropes for days. If it wasn’t for guilt! If it wasn’t for the time I have spent drinking cups full...
View ArticleTo Be Fair….
Black ink dries on hard paper, truth has made me guilty. Speak softly to me! A kind message? Sublingual peace? Abuse me with gentleness, please! Death is not deep. To be fair, this blush, this young...
View ArticleMonday Confession
It will be several days of confession. I have starved myself. I have been hard and violent. Each doctor takes note, takes opinion, takes my blood and stirs it in his coffee. It’s Monday. 9:30 A.M. The...
View Articlethat my lips may part for lava
winds sail slow arriving with difficulty to confession I speak against another back turned burned by sun light I am familiar with the dark – with poison with automatic disappointment that my lips may...
View ArticleMy Name
just the beginning, slithers off wet lips like it’s charming. “Mmmmm.” Mockingbirds and Mallards sing of my slick footprints. I step in. I step out. He stepped out. We spread together as far as Summer...
View ArticleDeep White
Demons sleep in the deep white, a place to rest while laundry drowns without ultimatum, while dismembered chickens swell in heat – sticking to bits of parsley that grew this year. People expire faster...
View ArticleThree Minutes In
Three minutes in – I am a dream. Have you ever been met by a mirror? Twisted like eyebrows in confusion. Steel eye compartments ready for battle. Nail my head to the floor, my only choice is to look up...
View ArticleGhost Plant
One story up, under a roof, under a perfect yellow moon, I wait. I watch oxygen expand into greatness. Midnight sleeps an ear ache away from me snoring. Oxygen starts its engine, then shuts off again....
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