When I say love, a limpet is what I become snug and steadfast, holding on to our rug, threadbare now from years beneath the weight of devotion fantast...Read more

Through the stroke I come alive. I capture every gargoyle and seraphic moment, For I deem it treacherous to forget what your eyes behold. I sketch a ...Read more

Your truth and mine are double-edged swords— tides in different synchronicity They see lies in what the other bleeds for. They see the fault in the h...Read more

It ebbs and flows. Your vacancy assails my lofty bungalow. I still pace those halls where we used to play hide-and-seek, where the throes of the worl...Read more

Tender is the flame I ride on a diaphanous dream, cataclysm shivering beneath my grip, as the razor-thin mouth snaps shut. My hands—pincers— bear the...Read more

I am trapped in a pit of gargantuan sand. Even Castle Rock gave me a foyer for my folly to play the obsidian chips Now there is only me and this motio...Read more

You pride yourself— a halo crowning your head in a perfumed portrait envied enough to start a stampede at auction. But what remains of you? A Rolex se...Read more

The bone needle ground looks on, its hands tied. The jacaranda wailed as it spayed that purple carpet—textured with part of its heartbeat The bone ne...Read more

In the grace of time, the wallflower stem plods. Indemnity— a loan I steal without abashment beneath this golden-burning sun. Lividity, once a dungeon...Read more

Napkin feels a noose too tight As shrills of merriment bombard me at every corner. Your parrots flock around you, echoing your gauntlet of dissatisfac...Read more

You were there at the beginning. You saw the birth perhaps a wet nurse while the Cenozoic era fussed Its ears heard your lullaby Its cries drowned wi...Read more

The rain is falling as I hang yawning straws for feet, a smirk of knowing growing between us A pharaoh in the meadow No birds fawning. In this field ...Read more

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Rains of envy plaster my doorstep. Moss wakes in the damp, stretching from sleep Even the air I breathe knows too much— glasses lift, foaming with co...Read more

Please be there There I linger in anguish Anguish you gathered around me Me in a straitjacket, sinking Sinking through heavy depths Depths I never ima...Read more

Galvanised by a raspberry kiss, the dents you seek may not taste so sweet. A sight a right once left pulverised in an embrace behind my eyes. A bereav...Read more

A mountain breathing dust through Giza’s patient desert, I met my doppelgängers waiting in the hinterlands Blinkered by a mist of complicity, footfal...Read more

Your lamb eyes whispered— a tin-can phone threaded with years trembled between us My heart gathered every unspoken syllable Your outstretched hands— a...Read more

How can I ever let you sully your hands over something that thrives on phantasm? The smoke burns my foresight, yet the mirror reflects a Quasimodo wit...Read more

I believe like all neogenesis of things I took one glance, walked right past you, deemed you vanilla to my dulce de leche, a plateau to my exponential...Read more