It’s been years coming even though you didn’t see it that way that terrible things happen and you inevitably change often without realizing what it stripped away until one day you notice an absence the inner chatter of continuous judgment that is selfishly centered on measuring the world by its own states has a lower…
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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…
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…
Sir Galahad and the Witch
I lean into this with my woundedness and the reach of a witch part of this pact to understand is in your hand burying her hideous into your chest all my mediums useless against your skin un hechizo healing with your flesh I can be whole freeing my final stretch a hopeless romantic sin remedio…
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…
Everyday Imago
In a world going awry everyday feels like the day I could die but I grasp just enough to fill the moment with a pregnant present in between breaths I never could make real art so instead I was the heartbreak between child and woman a sorrow more delicate in form savage in nature I…
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…