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Day breaks on those Parisian curtains, Freckles and scars illuminated along The creases of your form Rising, falling, plunging  Through the incense [holy!] atmosfears The leather gloves, my silent gasp, The nails tearing down my back Rip me awake and I dare not close them I can’t bring myself to distractions, I want to beContinue reading “[Un]Holy”

Saying goodbye to empty rooms Palms on bare boards that held your bed Cupboards that yawn like empty tombs If you were here what would you have said?   Amber bars of light from slatted blinds Where you stood white-capped, serene A trail of dirty finger marks left behind  That final garden in all itsContinue reading “Ivory Walls, Empty Rooms”

Your hand electrified the back of my neck As we hopped down the highway Listening to Rudie Can’t Fail, Talking of Tintin and juvenile justice At times your fingers would chisel Down my jaw and across my throat, Molding me With my hands trembling On the wheel, Calling me your little elephant, I thought ofContinue reading “Rudie / Elephants”

Winter’s coming And it’s been a decade Of powdered snow deep on sleeping soil Pink light fills the space around my eyes and I’m inside an oyster Pale geese framed in spun sugar buoyed by luminous green My limbs stretch and harden The room is filled with sun like amber ale, The edges softened byContinue reading “Monday Night Yoga”

One day I’ll hold you Warm and close like my 21st Summer, that quiet foreign Night, gazing up at the minaret I’ll smoke, find communion with all I can Hear but not see, and I close my lies, Fireworks decorating my inner galaxy; Outside is cold and loveless And inside isn’t always any better, but I’llContinue reading “Fireworks (Remix)”

I’m lying here where your brittled form lay curled and breathing not so long ago. Your skin turned sour and your voice too soft. I held your fingers and turned away from you folding in upon yourself. Breath held and eyes swimming, open upon a ceiling of smooth meringue. A collapsing seed planted in aContinue reading “Without You”

This concrete shrinks each evening, The sky’s no longer streaming And my dreams have been bleeding Together with you in unending Farewell The garden-beds lay flat with bitter shame As crestfallen chlorophyll fades into sorry brown, The cobbled pathways feel an empty same, Leading to the faded hue of this wretched town, That shamrock breezeContinue reading “Ne Me Quitte Pas”

I tried to sync our breathing on the dunes As the sky split and you shone amber apricot, But the climb left us both gasping In our own private oceans. I tried to find where the creases Of your eyes ended And the gentle contours of sand began As you laid your head back againstContinue reading “What we left in the sand”

Resentment pooling Babies drooling My last nerve spooling on a finite thread Who am I fooling? It’s not my calling  I’m falling, failing, where is my head   My teeth are grinding  On this ring-tight binding And I keep finding a pinching dread This endless minding I’m forever pining For solitude from whining, an emptyContinue reading “Failing you, my loves”

Am I going mad? Or is it this deepening fog That’s left me just a slice of an unsmudged person Pillars, towers, a fortress of fungi have filled the space between my ears And like a malfunctioning VCR I spit out the same words ad infinitum  ‘No!’ ‘Stop!’ ‘Come here!’ ‘Eat your dinner!’ My teethContinue reading “Sunlight”