Dear friend, It’s been a hard year, hasn’t it? I see you, curled up alone on the floor of your bedroom, stifling your sobs with your hand so your family doesn’t hear. I see you, sitting numbly at your desk chair, wondering what all of this is for. I see you because I’m you, years […]
Burnout
jaded metal covers me smothers me governs me dulling me catching no gleam of sun or whisper of transcendence no turning rote learning mind burning but I burn burn burn into the blooming vine into the evening shine into the sweeping Rhine burn burn burn into the lilting time into the wistful pine into the […]
Ode To The One
deep blue sea blue under a desecrated rock I lie the mermaids do not call to me for I am no pearl of the sea how could I be? I am just a mouth embalmed in seaglass a pair of gray eyes looking from behind a stone statue but this is an ode to the […]
We Are All Marionettes
I pull at the string connected to the center of my heart and like a marionette hung at an obtuse angle my back arches unnaturally and my head rolls back passive to the insistence of my hand and unrestrained longings of my heart I hang there limp and frozen like an advertisement of a ballerina […]
Sweet Poison
I have drunk the sweet poison of fantasy it is not deep or meaningful or existential or maybe it has glimmers of all those things I can taste the nectar from my stomach and can feel the fragrance seeping into my blood and lulling me into a dream my body morphs into an amorphous dome […]