There was ichor in our veins. Mine from yours, just under skin, drawn with vampyric teeth from the tattoo on your ribs. Teasing every drop to your hi...Read more

"Not hopeless if you are less than 21." - Ezra Pound What is the wealth of my experience? I wonder, with what speed should my heart fall, How man...Read more

When I say, "love," What do you hear? When I say, "I love you," Is it just a middle syllable Like a metronome beat, Semantic satiation? Or do you fe...Read more

If I were a music-maker, I think I'd like to write a song About your dimples and your laugh And how they turn the Earth along. With ginger tea out on...Read more

Last August was a sauna. Hot, heavy, healing. Devotional. Love and guilt and grief and the way I would count your freckles while you slept. I always ...Read more

The old, large black walnut in our yard— I recall—must have grown with God's first words. Before my grandparents gave us the house, Lightning struck ...Read more

Inside a basement office, Under three bank floors, Sits a life preserver. Flickering fluorescent bulbs Illuminate a layer of dust, Clean fingerprints...Read more

I will carry the burden On shoulders made of straw; Whatever threatens you Will settle on my braided core. It is but a small thing ...Read more

Thunder sifts electricity: Fractals arcing ever-downward, Seeking the marrow of the Earth, Crying out to be united In the raging din of the storm. Br...Read more

Knots in stomachs, Heart palpitations, Lightheadedness: Consequences, Or Price of admission? Transactions Govern Relationships Like who pays For di...Read more

let's stack porcelain like nesting dolls until we crash overtaken by grief love

Juliet, my Tragedy, speak not of love That hence from yonder myth doth breed Another, and another, and another Ephemeral dove, together birthed as ste...Read more

e4 Your procession begins again With grandeur and pomp in your hands. "Audentes Fortuna iuvat," You tried to help me understand, g5 But my response i...Read more

When the morning calls, Sweat-soggy pillow underneath A bare scalp, Fugue-state shaved in the shower, I dress myself, Cinch a necktie like a Q-collar ...Read more

When I ask you to picture "weather," Do you feel the weight of dark clouds? Envision their tears cut from electric veins? Why not imagine a sun-kissed...Read more

So long as you I collide we will ...Read more

On average, the Earth is slowing down. Regular shifts in core density, Gravity distribution, lunar friction, Glacial melting, and temperature change A...Read more

i don't know if you pick your scabs if you're the kind of person that walks right into hell because choosing pain is like flicking a toothache with ...Read more

Somber stillness settles like silk Bedsheets overstretched on the yard. Next to me, your rocking chair creaks The tally; and I am leaking Out of swol...Read more

How brightly stars are left to shine, Shine behind the curtains of my eyes— Eyes that nightly watch your silhouette Silhouette, in turn, the world's s...Read more