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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 […]

Fingernails

  I only left a hateful mess, despairingly On my way out the door So as you’d even fucking notice I’d been there, in love before… Now I’m longer ‘the nice guy’ unable to see the ‘bright side’ Eggs don’t chase sperm Never will, will never learn…      

Choke

  Wake in the middle of the night, in sometime to come? as the memory’s punch in the throat chokes you with realization’s grip Like I’ve tried to, in my sleep, Once grieving mouth moving to form Hissing syllables with once loving lips grazing sacramental skin Callous(ed) hands clasped tightly around your neck since your […]

Blood on your hands

Nothing you can say Nothing you can do Nothing halts this pain I know the truth. Suffocate awake For the daily walk on a bed of nails, I wait For my heroin to return. I miss her purple hair I miss the way she tastes when my flowery words lubricate her unquenchable void Mommy’s abandonment […]

Vagabondage.

  Across the dark, six winters past, clear cobalt sky found me in her bewitching gaze. Azure spheres simmering aflame, for me. Such fission entwined flesh. Valves of a once beating heart: no longer the brass section of devotion’s orchestra. Something wondrous, rotten from the start until it finally fell apart. One necrotic half – […]

Empty Bottle.

I used the last of my Diesel today. A birthday gift from you, two years ago. When we were happy… I dropped the bottle in the recycling and wept bitter scolding tears, that burned my face in the December cold. A simple task, so painfully hard to do, as if I were somehow throwing one […]