a statement of purposeI don’t feel so well she croons into my ear I neither, sister sounds the reply inside my head. not in any sense of the phrase.a statement of purpose
it echoes off empty bone walls and ricochets from eyeball to eyeball, escapes through fine follicles of hair.
it rains. the car hurtles down the highway a silver coffin bullet skimming water and I feel nothing.
three years since I’ve written a poem and I’m starting to think that emotions were solely to shape words. once they died I emptied out a hollow house without pages to quiet t
love is autumnIt is not autumn, and I do not know you. Even though I know every notch in your spine, even when we sit on your couch sweating cheap beer, even as you curl around me in your sleep and moan and I would marry you in some future, we are strangers. I would open the blinds, to stare at the moon smiling at me, but you would wake.love is autumn
We are gods, rough hewn; humans just barely; at the moment, vines entangled. I grow into you; you twist quiet tendrils around my bone trellis. In sleep, one, with dreams of amber valleys. Our hearts, cradled in maple leaves, are safe behind their brea
loosingi. rain makes watercolor portraits that run and run eyes dry watching then i runloosing
ii. i was so sure i had it clutched tight
trembling fingers loose sand
and perfectly still i open my hands
and they are empty then
iii. the plummet of icarus through gorgeous sunsetclouds disturbs peaceful dinners on rooftop resturants
he walked away before he could see that i wept for him that i kept his feather
iv. electricity of the blood travels fingers like hight
don't know nothingno one knows what it means this 'poetry'.don't know nothing
i asked baraka (i wanted his words on loan his jazz and his white white teeth)
and he told me hell no girl
firstwise you got your own jazz it's a one(wo)man thing and mine's not for your singing
lastwise you're dead girl and you don't know nothing for poetry or water so leave off
and i smile with the knowledge he doesn't know either.
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