Ladies And Gentlemen

She is standing in his shadowin a shroud that covers everythingabout her, and if she raises her defensesit would only serve to make the moment worse.An unrelenting curse that hasn’t let its gripslip after everything they’ve gone throughup against it. Another on a couch somewheredrinking in her underwearcries tears over the fear she feelsaround him.It […]

Read More Ladies And Gentlemen

Closer

Fire face like a broken place,mountainside unwavering againstthe water slides that try to imitate them.I think I hate them but it kills me to admit thatsince I know it’s just a feelingand a feeling isn’t anything but noise.There isn’t anything here betweenthe liquor stores and people wanting moreof what they barely have.There is a body […]

Read More Closer

Transmutation

She’s like a piece of spider webfloating on the surface of the pondand she is gone again before I lookto see her and remember where I aught to beas something almost permanently caught.This thing we all are held withinis changing like how dancers in a stage showpull their costumes over costumes behind curtainsin the dark […]

Read More Transmutation

Post Authority

Hunger can help sometimesbecause the emptyness is oftenlike an iceberg no one’s seen before,out somewhere in the dark partsof the ocean. I can’t wait for you hereon this empty streetwhere no one livesand the garbage cansare still around for miles. I replace my memorieslike ceiling tiles gatheringup dust and fading structureuntil there’s nothing leftof what […]

Read More Post Authority

Influence

I think I understand what I was missingin the summer, when I left youin that sunset and did the same thingI had done now times before.You had your sweater tied around yourselfsitting in the grass under the dogwood treethe hive made into honey.There is enough money in our imaginationto give everyone a pieceand there is […]

Read More Influence

Lanes

She thought the music was too happy thereplaying in the mall while all the familiestook up space in all the lines.I couldn’t convince her things had always beendifficult like this just in the waysthat add up more and more severe.We sat together on the marble rimsurrounding water and the change,we all tossed in to make […]

Read More Lanes

Walk In

They ask me how I amwhen I am walking into start the normal day,and I cannot sayI wish that I could runaway forever. They call me on the phoneasking why I’ve not been home,or paid the debts I owefrom saving up some time.It gets so easily lostI can’t remember where it is,but some cheap magnifying […]

Read More Walk In