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Nameless Rhythm

Verse after verse Verse after verse Universe after universe I search for you In words I search for you In unnamed stars I know I’ll find you Among both of them As I love forward As I move Forward Forward Forward Through every line I write And every star I name

Stupid Questions

Reality (Future) “I don’t know if you remember…” He went on to describe a conversation placed in the core of our collective memory. He acted like we both didn’t know in that moment that the moment we were living in, in that version of the present, would be cataloged and used in future references becauseContinue reading “Stupid Questions”

Where do I live

Where do I live in your heart and your head? In a tomb all cased up you won’t open again? Or do I reside in a garden of neurons that blossom and grow all over the brain, that migrate for Winter to a warmer, throbbing space. One that carries my memory to the rest ofContinue reading “Where do I live”

The Return

In that funny liminal space between awake and asleep I tuned in to the tail end of our time together with ease. Like when your favorite movie is on TV and you know you’ve missed almost all of it, but you keep it on anyway. No need to change the channel. I didn’t know howContinue reading “The Return”

Penny Talk

You left over 900 pennies in a bag by the door when you left. That was a year ago. I housed them in a drawer with other stuffed away memories in the shape of a deck of cards and mismatched earrings and old sets of keys. But today I thought, I should clean out that drawer andContinue reading “Penny Talk”

Phina (“the burning ones”)

Ask all the big questions Ask them to yourself Ask me Look up and ask the universe why we’re starting to look like our souls Look down at the spaceships we call feet and think about the first time you let them take you someplace new because it was time to move forward and thenContinue reading “Phina (“the burning ones”)”

Tend

Full of thorny fervor swollen green with life, he took root in her overgrown garden’s heart. He scaled and weaved and interlocked, like a thick vine too stubborn to wilt or break or wither. Not even when the winter fought her way into his cells. He never waited for rain. He waited for her. She would be the one toContinue reading “Tend”

Unheard Words

I just wish the words our mouths make were like the ones we write. Then our art could reside in each other-but, instead, they are silently read on this website.

Flame or ember, soot or cinder

In front of fire I read what you wrote where scattered words were not contained by lines chaos drenched in lead and heavy inked footnotes lie disregarding truth where it was signed From what I can decipher you end with something in French or maybe Catalan a morsel of the long forgotten myth youContinue reading “Flame or ember, soot or cinder”

Lagoon

You are the murky waters right beyond the land that lies between us. I am your lagoon. We share a piece of Earth, but you never let me spill over onto your side of things. I peer over when I can; I stand on the balls of my feet, I stretch my neck the wayContinue reading “Lagoon”