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always a loaded past
you
suicided me with one look
so i took the life of my
own heart
before you had a chance
to steal that plea..
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Realization
I remember slaughtering
chickens in Vermont
early morning while the
dew settled still
on the grass, and
flowers kept t..
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knowing when to walk away
momentum
shifting
hard love recoils slowly
last hand, she's leaving
erin-cilberto..
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about love
holding hands,
butterfly kisses, sappy things
tingle,
when awkward love mingles
and the green so serene
outcomes, infla..
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Does someone really live
there?
my
heart was condemned years ago
yet, i insisted on
living with it anyway
a structure, bor..
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Weak Railings
slap
hazard
brick constitution
skyscraper cheek
solid mortar soul
smiles from a broken
window
the frame ..
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wrinkled geography
blistered
fingers
cotton candy eyes
pink with held tears
back lashed
scars in the field of
self-worth
..
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the theater of you
needed
some elbow room
for my heart,
squeezed out of the
aisle of love
you saved my seat,
but i ..
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love's fragile focus
snapshot
snap shut
the eyes reddened
an old Polaroid
of when we could be
captured together
within that..
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Pin-pricked Senryu of the Heart
poem in
freezer bag
to save for another day
burned words now useless
can't eat them
writ..
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