Listen. Somewhere you’ll hear it. You’ll see it too. It seems animosity fuses up through the pavement outside, Seeps through every crevice and crack in the sidewalk, Crawling (curling) like moss around the toes of its inhabitants. You can see if you look hard; The faint mark of judgment’s slime on the soles of your […]
Read more...You are speechless upon waters encompassing all that is UNTITLED Until word strikes your lip with the severity of a name, Until you are no longer balancing with uncertainty Along the lucid brink an ambiguous wave, And finally, finally you feel rough concrete Against your toes, And fall back unto the welcoming security Of solid […]
Read more...This poem is dedicated to the children at the Bleshman Regional Day School, most of whom have severe cases of cerebral palsy. A couple other students and I, through a program at school, connected with these children through music and dance; it was unbelievable how immediate the initial unease dissipated and how strong the bond […]
Read more...Denial sits upon the crown of my head Bathed in course, satirical waters Of ambivalent teenhood. Its bony wing rests above my ear Its back arched along the curve of my skull, Craning my neck to sustain the weight Of the denial I so yearn to suppress. And yet Its calf dangles just under my […]
Read more...Cradled by the surging foam of wave’s brink, Glass crawls out of the clarity As if in fear of its own evanescence, As evanescent and everlasting As the ocean itself. Spears the dampened powder, it does, A softness shadowed with each sporadic breath of a sea, Foaming by the mouth of incomparable genius, A wisdom […]
Read more...Close yours eyes And stroke the vacant breath in which you are planted And enfold both fists ‘round the first letters [you] find. Gnaw into your palm, they will, Grinding your callused flesh between points of A and curves of U Beads of violet blood drawn by the biting words So carelessly combined. Perhaps your […]
Read more...Take hold of each thumb And grasp until the snap of its thin spine Meets your carnivorous ear. Dig each nail into transparent flesh To finally feed upon the soundless melody lying beneath. Parasitic, your eyes engorge the bitter music Leaking from each wound. A thousand voices build below the arch of my brow. And […]
Read more...The rich jade of my pen Bleeds unto the page lying dormant four below. Bloodied ink stalking line and curve, Scarring blank faces with staining bullets, Evermore tattooed With the burden of my words. And my pen weeps with murdering immortality, And my tears bleed with the ink that I cannot use. Now I slip […]
Read more...Impulse sheds from shaded eyes of excuse Into excused actions by an impulsive hand. Five fingers, palm, and wrist Armored by transparent latex that peels Only when caught dripping poisonous red, And, with tears on paper, Confesses dysfunctional restraint And, with this, Fulfills a crime done and uncommitted. But there is residue between fingers And […]
Read more...Malicious teeth hook into the curve of my words And drag my hollow value down the gilded page of my book. Foreign pens and malevolent verses scrape upon the face of mine, Inaudible whispers beat upon my ink’s ear, Soundless and yet Just barely understood. The strike by the lip of the astonishing Just barely […]
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