Paint It Black

Your face contorted in my watery reflection

blotching ever so unsightly around the edges

The violin was playing like a broken nail upon glass

as it oozed lullabies into our ears

Blood was about your mouth like lipstick applied with a shaky hand

and the corners of your lips drew down with the wilting of discarded watercolors on an envelope

You slid in and out of darkened crowds like freedom denied-ungraspable

Unwanted on the street-corner and questionably clothed, you wore your boots unlaced

Tripping over the most fabricated of lies, you told me to look at the moon

I did

And it slid out of your pupil

like a dusty snowflake

alliteration "S"

Sophia sat submitting a sequence of uncertain circumstances, saying each sentence with a chattering of teeth as shivers slid to the surface of her skin with unmatched skills and subtleties. She slowly switched into a silent soliloquy stopping only so that she could stare into the skies. 

Fraying of the Flesh

the trees cracked at a touch

bark and dust fell around us

like a new depth to the growing shadows

we stood holding hands

our palms sweaty with the last drops

of ever-thirsting life that slid, dripping, off our minds

your lips caught on with the growing storm

the dandelion's seeds were lost 

and the stems lay about our feet like an end to promises

we cradled our sanity as we rocked it to sleep

with nothing but the stilling wind as our everlasting lullaby.

Even The Air Is Trembling

this heat in the summer

makes the city look trippy

and I begin to feel slighted

and the cars are running

like shimmering silver tears

chasing after some unknown emotion

there is no sidewalk

but i just sit on the curb

watching

HA, LOVE TODAY (sorta old i just forgot to put it up)

Charmer,

Where would you suggest

That I start to get undressed?

(I’ll toss my old clothes behind me)

Naked thought proves an innocent mind

I hope you’ve put the past behind?

Discovering secret bruises

And places where the hand shakes

This is the answer

To my body’s mandate

I’ll disturb you in return

For matching the pace that you yearn for

Poetry, seeking silence in the movies,

I’d tuck a memory behind your ear

And you’d move right through me.

Jealousy would tie the bow

And a ring would tie the knot.

My stomach’s indigestion brings us to a parking lot.

Side streets and hiding in the far corner

Love is a mystery

You can’t say you didn’t warn her.

Awkward silences provide that old shadow of doubt

Afterwards will you remember what you fought about?

Make up sex and forget-me-nots

There’ll always be a mistress to bring along..

Children crawling out from the womb,

This kind of marriage always starts to consume.

After I found out that you fucked her before

(That whore!)

You’ll feel remorse

Only when

I

File a divorce.