• a mirror

    there is a mirror where my heart used to be, it scries upon dreams unlived, and for a moment i wear the veil of possibility, a beacon for anyone but me; i have looked upon its face and see nothing, not even my own eyes, as if i have never existed,

  • unhooked

    there was soft music in this box, silence had to hold its breath to hear it; but no one had the thought to pause their footsteps, and you; you let it be siphoned away, cast in a spell that i cannot break, and i remain mute by this still lake, slipping like a fish caught,…

  • memory

    you were supposed to remember; the river has run its course, and it’s pooled into the ocean; i have waited by its shores for so long, each strand of my hair holds memory, and you have not come; the weight of the promise still flickers, my skin grows scales, and when the gills have grown,…

  • cold arms

    love, you have lacerated from the left side of my throat down to the heart, and pulled out a mass that had cried with a hundred hungry mouths; since then, the boat of sorrow has left me, and because i have only ever known its face, love seems foreign; i am not sure what to…

  • red-walled

    the clock over my red-walled room sings eternity by the big Hand, yet the other says, here at the time of the heart that moves like the sea, and the seconds tick like snapshots that begins and ends in nothing,

  • sheared

    i had shaped and sheared the fabric between us, rearranged the stars, tilted the sun, and submerged the moon, all to reveal; but how could i have dared such sacrilege, when the shape of it must bloom by the breath of our shared exhale,

  • pomegranate

    sweet hades, this bride of Death asks for that tantalizing pomegranate, mother says not to eat a drop of what you offer, but for you, i will let myself be tricked into your lair, i have blind-folded myself in your tattered robes, your voice leads me; darkness is my new home and your kiss has…

  • flimsy

    how tenured these flimsy threads that attempt to fill this void, this void, that inevitably draws us in; where i must go, you too, gravity pulls through this all-swallowing space; i could give it all the roses and gold in the world and still it shall swallow me whole; i can’t help but fall in…

  • plunged

    this you have to do on your own, put out your right leg into the pool; love is waiting both feet in; and yours is still hanging out; you said this is all you ever wanted; the candle has been burning bright for years, and still you haven’t plunged into your deathbed,

  • of twos

    ah, the tides have receded, i find my eyes reflecting my lover’s eyes, to see reflection to reflection, infinity of twos; a microcosm of the universe in a piece of you and i; love, i haven’t felt this alive in a long time, i could tip over and know there is no end to this,