• honeymilk

    put me back to sleep, fill up my skies red; dreams that last like candyfloss; i am sorry i asked to see behind the screen, spill honeymilk over my eyes; burn them even; keep me half-dazed, i ask no more questions, pull the veil down my head, kiss me through it again, lie to me,

  • consumption

    i have learnt to eat out my hand, eat from my breath, eat this skin, these eyes that have half-closed; i don’t ask for much, simply, that you eat yours too, but the way your mind works; you will chew yourself out soon enough since every move i make is suspect, and i don’t have…

  • open again

    turn the lights on, add a few more pages, what’s that ending? draw the curtain open again, look at that, the wind blows, who says it’s gone still? I can hear the sound of water trickling down somewhere, your smile still lights, your hands still sets petals flush, don’t set your sun down yet, there…

  • neck deep

    you keep saying sink deeper, sink deeper; the wetlands are rising to my hips; and still you say sink; i am neck deep now, everything thickens, but not enough for you; you must press down my shoulders, watch my eyes submerge, your hands too, touched,

  • but yours

    the band warms your finger; what was yours, you give; i am confused by your giving; i have kissed that movement so many times; i still do not understand it; i know what i have for you, always; but yours have questions spilling from my lips what would otherwise be full in silence,

  • constricted

    the coils wrap tighter, i hadn’t thought of tighter spirals; but these lines impress me, constricted; criss-cross cuts; wired, pieces and fragments; i don’t want to forget but i have forgotten, i like overlaps, words on top of words, with enough of it i am back to the beginning, 

  • beyond

    i will drink the poisoned cup your hands drop into mine; even if the moon sets behind your eyes; i will drink it, and long after the embers have smothered; i will still hold nothing against you; how could i fight what is beyond me; how could i fight..

  • upside-down

    when you said forever, i remember i took a picture of the sky upside-down, and there was sweetness in the cup between us; i hadn’t said anything then; forever seems numbered now; i watched the word break; and even now i said nothing; i am not sure what i have found between then and now;…

  • hearsay

    i am sure you do too, given how elaborate and simple your schemes are; someone might look at me and say hearsay; but, i have only found you in the bottom of my drink; pitch-black sweetness; i am sure you love entertainment as much as i; so would you please, open that door for me,…

  • black

    watching you, tells me saving does more harm than good; wrapping you rots me, and its been seeping into these feathers; laden, ladened by your resentment of need and freedom; this is not done out of hatred although it is; tinged dark, but thank you, these whites have been looking for its black for too…