Moonshade

I saw youover the moonMoving to unmarked destinationDwelling in a shadowy graveWe are all unlit roman candlesStanding in the middle of streetsMisfiresburning at both endsHidingUnder moonshadesAs night walkersI can’t seem to findThe neon lit exitAs if trapped in a locked theater

Wreck

Into the sensesUpended the shipOn a slip and slide deckWho is the wreck?Inside a dazeSleepwalking in a mazeAn unbegotten sunHere you areA stone throw awayAnd yet i cannot reach yougradually blendingManeuvering in an aurora borealisUnraveling, while tighteningSubsumedBut not yet consumed

no time

this timethere is no timeor spaceor centrifugal forcepulling us togetheror pulling us apartyou sinkinto the plumesevaporate into the atmospherein the palm of my hand

suspension

A suspension of trickling waterDripping down a porous wallHow timely, yet inconsequentialWe buried our eyes in sheets and blanketsBlacked out streets/ sparks lit in malformed heartsA search for diminishing returnsIn the quietude, we refuseI am lost, but am foundI am blind, but I seeBeleaguered by inherited sins of fathers/ mothersStop motion captureRevealed multiple fractures

Crawl

Crawling     And groping     On my hands and elbows   Feeling for a shadow or shade     Skin flays      And firebreath plumes         Rousing anthems          Uncovered by persistent heralding       Of ever hoping far flung longings     Encircling concentric circles upon          Infertile, barren wastelands         As far as the horizon          dust encrusted decades          Waiting upon only a shadow of a thought        feeble…

Hindsight trepidation

Hind sight trepidation but remember (one reminds self) What was etched into the past carves designs and lays brick for the paths we will soon tread daily micro crucifixions to carry transfixed day after day in the mind's eye promotes fortitude and resolute resilience but the temptation for instant gratification is only a reach and…

Communion

Communion     with me     draw close    within a hair's breadth     make an oath   Shoved down your throat      let down    creeky drawbridges     Preemptive defense    Reticent to pitch tents     dip your toes     into shallow waters      quandaries ripple        Often cripple       future ability        to metamorphosize        But archived maladies         Make me lazy        Misplaced intentions         Spread like infections        Quiet down         And take…

throw out

mercury rising fever declining making another revolution around the world tea cup ride overdrive surrender to the currents updraft lifting out of shoes oh fates be my guide lockpick this heart held captive to the present brainstorm for a storm's a brewin' cast me a clue throw out all rules

Every

every ionized particle every ripped up polaroid every dust mite every gigahertz of energy every magnetic field every beam of sunlight every pound of coin every trace of fragrance every cherished moment every frozen token every haphazard memory every calloused stare every inch of hair every transcendent memory every crushed moment every aborted dream every…