• underbed

    the bottle will be uncorked soon, the sea is crying for the message to be released, soul trapped under the veneer of sunbursts that screams gold, but no, it’s just lights that danced to dazzle, while beauty sleeps underbed, 

  • still lake

    i have run away from the maws of your ravishing hunger only to arrive right back into the lair of your son; i have only ever wanted the moon to shine down as i read the shifting shadows under my feet, but mother, you swallowed the moon; starved as you are; i am sorry there…

  • golem

    i have clawed out of your vice, your need; you made a golem out of me, stuffed with your darkest corners, that i have come to untie; your daughter that you had promised to carry, just to dump your clotted parts into me; i have moved under shadow to shadow, to arrive at springs’ doorstep,…

  • 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…