Holly barbs on my hands as I hold the weather away. No, dear, there's no storm, no scourging winter outside. Perform the rite we have agreed to pe...Read more
Springtime hearts on fire, running with a ragtime band through the humid cling of Alabama mornings in May, Needles dancing on your thigh the dance of ...Read more
BURN AND FADE, SILVER RIDER! Let me be your light down by the river — What is and was the way of the sun, The reckless, burning death of a salesman Th...Read more
Luxury condos, first floor corridor to the loading dock. Doors along both sides. The pits, but still expensive. I'm carrying rugs. I pass a man exitin...Read more
I'm disintegrating and you don't even care. "Why didn't you..." I'm dying, That's why. Every brutish censure That rolls over the plains; Every disa...Read more
Carve into me right now, Bitch, I demand it. Where's your snarl when You've got your chance at last To cut me down to size? Why hesitate When the ki...Read more
two years in exile. i watch myself drink and dance and caress the warm secrets of strangers, Scarred tongue licking salt from desert fountains, doom...Read more
Redbull Vodka might be the only name I knew you by. You’d lean over my shoulder and say, “Redbull vodka, rail is fine”, Then kick off towards some da...Read more
Morning light in familiar linen dogwood dapples dance through open panes, through orange slices, on hallowed hands anointed by their scent, sticky, fr...Read more
TOGETHER / RIDING CLOTHES / CLIFFTOP / JAGGED FJORD / MIDNIGHT SUN / FIRE OVER THE SEA / CONSUMING THE SKY / DEEP RED / HALLOWED GOLD / PALATIAL CLOUD...Read more
For all the pain We put each other through, I will Always recall The curve of Your lips — God, Their holy lusciousness, Within them the Choirs of Heav...Read more
Desert Rose I wish you love, Starting over With crippled wings And broken eyes Do not let your spirit wane. Somewhere up ahead The dreaming dead Sit...Read more
THERE WAS A GREAT CLAIMING IN THIS CASKET VALLEY, PINES BENEATH THE SKIEN OF MEMORY TRAPPED IN GREEN-GLASS DARK WHILE ANCIENT PREDATORS SLIDE THROUGH ...Read more
“Have you seen this man?” I look in the mirror. I haven’t seen him. I excuse myself. Splinters — I see the guitar in mid-swing — Mainsails billow in...Read more