written to be read

we cannot escape from being torn here.

you want everything and you should have it.

i want to get paid to be inspired by life and i can have that too.


our world is made up of crazy lost lovers in a web of connections

reaching out of memory and into a future of the unknown.


i am awake.


the serpent of today has devoured dreams like it's own tail, but cannot hide from the fact

that the days are like elephants walking in a line.

it brings me to tears that the link between moment and distance is a thin line

held by the thick trunk of memory and longing.

it makes me want to hold your hand and have you rest your head on mine

and kiss my cheek and tell me who the people in my dreams are.

i want to disappear into the ether and reappear in your dreams

and in your mind while you bathe.

then reappear on your tv screen.

then reappear as the woman i see when i look into the mirror with my eyes closed.

forgetting the feeling of missing you.


there is no sound.

the sun peaks through an early morning mist falling like lace around my window.

wanting.


you wake me up break me down make me move make me weep.

a transit of constellations plays from the radio.

running through the woods against the steep contrast of trees to sky.

the feeling of being dressed in a bow.


we shared some things

sending letters wrapped in the fingerprints of many nations.


when i got home a feathered mess lay within the folds of time

drinking like a honey-suckling sailor

swallowing the dreams of masticating origami doves.


happiness translates to cannibalizing the secular delusion

driving to the temple with belled ankles and roped belly

hands to sheets then breast then head then knees to cheek to beat the weather


stop it


i didn't believe in destiny

the modern dance of fisted friendships

clinking spoons against crystal

making music in an alley

tolling bells for those that stop to listen

and with eyes closed

dance over the shaking heads of bobbling women and agreeable men

sloppy and loose to the control of eyes that pray


it's the synthopated choreography

that runs over the teeth of strangled women

pasted upon a scroll of fallen petals


my voice is reverberated in black ink

sporadically penned by a controlled bleeding

blending into soothing

like a child blends chalk

like a rainbow's disappearance into the distance.


like shyness to laughter

dissembling the resonant sound of your voice.

the faint whisper of rain sizzling in the low sun

like a full red moon confusing the day with night.

undressing the shallow mistress of adventure

while blindfolded human flesh and desire

lay underwater in love.


it burns a negative image onto the edge of my teacup

breathed into existence by shadows.

the circus of paradise is revealed in the droplet upon your cheekbone


a sip of power

calling your name

dividing joy equally amongst the abundant


what would it feel like to truly know you?

to lick the porridge from my chin.


you are brighter than sunshine

and i have the eyes of an albino cat draped in human clothes.