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Category Archives: poetry

This Time, the Sea

it’s strange this ache i feel this tugging of ghost strings pulling me back into the technicolor cinemascope the dream the dream that time has passed been left behind swallowed up & can never be lived in again a house burned down to ash & smoke this ache… has it always been with me? have […]

Geek Love

i’m gonna wear my heart on my sleeve & show you my character sheet i’ll let you see my ability scores my modifiers, traits, & skills you’ll know my armor class & when i fail my saving throws i’ll show you my defenses & let you in my circle of protection i’m gonna wear my […]

Kissing the Turtle

in the crush of frozen waterfalls a crash of waves a wash of sighs drowning in the honey ocean bubbling in the sugar sea in the forest of the sphinx an island breeze in the trees of moonlight singing with the crying doves siren bells & crystal shells dancing in the nest of swans fingering […]

On Beyond Mars

i look my best in the brier patch i look my best dressed in rhyme & verse the more time you spend on figuring things out the more you make things worse it’s a blessing & a curse i jump & yell & gesticulate wildly my voice is in my hands don’t give me a […]

Flying Horses

i am exploding! bursting & brilliant blue charged with chaos warping gravity with my very presence! i have no time for your acidic shadows your rain of contempt your dreary, drizzling disdain if you don’t want to rocket through life blasting into the future laughing & dancing bright with the promise of premise arcing sparks […]

Castling the Bishop

so… here i am again my kings & queens! & for your entertainment i will now disappear everything i’ve ever said everything i’ve ever seen everything i’ve ever touched everything i’ve ever thought everywhere i’ve ever been everyone i’ve ever loved every now & every then every drink i’ve ever drunk every sink i’ve ever […]