The only gem worth carrying

Like rush of air time ravages everything the wave that roars at hurricane speed it’s letting the riptide of life tear you to shreds the losses the loves the feels all dragging me through the wipe-outs of my passions Only to realize there is nothing to break yet I go on, life goes on there…

Avatars

I flip the switch these days and quietly back away thinking that I cannot give but in three ways the wealth of my being my courage my path my body of fate above my creative mind the tiger’s caught by the tail unaware eventually that his stripes will fade transform to dots to remind the…

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…

Δάφνη

stirred by the breezy whispers of a question blown on the wind why did you run the breath gently parting the leaves of her once hair where once life coursed with a virgin lust through veins and flesh and cupid shot his arrows love through his heart he, the Sun god bristled down bare-chested bold…

Survivor

There’s a mirror that looks back with a face that can’t leave the sadness like a habit that says grace like a priest for the losses you can’t confess anywhere but to the darkness as long as you’re out there but still inside me I can’t let it go I have to release the guilt…

Beautiful

It does not just happen till spring’s met winter and the burn of its chill wrenches away every leaf of your branches cold as the cold wind blows the veneer you believe is you it’s just superficial untested a pure seeming a childish innocence smiling and ignorant then the split of sudden change rends you…

The seeming

Who is this trapped behind the glass persistently trying to get past an invisible wall of pride who is this who sees through these eyes casting my hooked appetite thoughts caught with a visual net that keeps the construct of sight and insight in a desperate tango dancing in between life and death this impossible…

The practice of the mirror

That sudden feeling that you know this smile on this face is familiar but not safe intimately you know this one you see before you is wild untamable suddenly self-conscious you are taken aback And to think you even thought for a juicy moment dripping in judgment that she’d been staring shamelessly at you this…

Floating in between

I chafe at the chaotic happening of everything surfing a wave of uncertainty daily and all the serious well-to-do people who have it all figured out keeping their neat little boxes and call it “reality” but the invented nature of imputation makes it more an “irreality” projected figures dancing what every thing weighs as if…

Together apart

I feel the distance between you and me all the time my imperfect shores aching for your horizon caught within the limits of my elements rough bones of earth sandy coasts draped in silver water skin sunset’s breath colors my hair all hues of pink and orange the sun’s fire rests tonight moonlight croons and…