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Blue-grey smoke holds allure Against the black Married in seamless perfection To my Cuban tobacco tongue Window down, system up Pulse pounds past giving a fuck Moonlight licking shore like Aromatic lips Each heart pluck a steel string Diamond diffusion Through broken tears   Necrotic muscle sends Septic plasma round Highways & byways Beneath mayonnaise […]

Thinking.

Listen to this track. Nathan’s words say me better than I can today. Just asked a friend and fellow writer: can I let go of my pain, when pain makes me who and what I am. Pain. Darkness. They are the juice that flow in my veins and from my pen. Take them away, what […]

You irritating fuck

Why do men play games and suffer such rapid changes of heart, she asked me in transit. An elderly prattling stranger, upon the coach into town. I’m disgruntled by the inquiry and my demeanor let’s her know as much. Mustering as much civility, as a man under duress can be expected to display, I turned […]

Dead Things

I kid myself I can still feel you. Fingers hovering over the send key, only to tap delete and toss the device away. Alone together in separate darks. Like the small white sharks we have become – sniffing grief from a million miles away. Dead things who nevertheless bleed. Fresh blood, in the salted ocean […]

Now I’m just like you…

I’m angry in my bones. Tainted by your stain and perfumed in your stench. I don’t recognize or understand the grizzled grey face that looks at me with brown cowed eyes. You were forever, to me. The one where one of us eventually dies, only I never expected you to die on me… Didn’t I […]

I’ve been opened enough

‘I don’t know if I can open up I’ve been opened enough I don’t know if I can open up I’m not a birthday present   I’m aggressive aggressive The past is over And passive seems so pathetic I was fated, faithful, fatal I was fated, faithful, fatal I feel stoned and alone like a […]