like poetry

The thought of you is a pleasure it’s that scent that has a texture like smooth laughter slick tangling of skin and velveted passions sparring words like swords we strip bare down to the bones of the most intimate truth there’s a sweetness that blossoms in the space torn open in the way we lock…

Laid bare

You smoked me to ash sucked me to the end and put me out my finished self a cigarette butt tossed to the ground stomped and squashed a practice that taught me the art of blending with the grime that sticks to the bottom of your feet the stuff that reeks of rotting greed toxic…

Afloat

One eye fixed on the horizon the waterline creeps and recedes rhythmically up and down my mouth opens as if I could almost drown I can breathe fine one minute and the next I’m choking on grief as if tragically in slow motion the need the reach neither helping I can’t stand and I can’t…

Sunset

Tonight I shared the sunset with you the sun lit up the sky then intimately died slipped down and fell behind the horizon and the quiet is what I remember the most and thinking to myself we’ve known this perfection together before we’ve known this life and its rich bittersweet taste that we continue to…