As a child of the world I went wandering seeking wisdom, seeking compass From the eldest I could find on land and see I made pilgrimage...

I know you Broken blade The weight of you in and and memory The fire roar of blood, conviction's fire The breathless truth of war Set...

I was tired And you were tired And the days were all rice paper Crackling and thrumming Giving voice to the emptiness of wind

Too close or too far I change and bend to meet your movement Lithe and hard I love the feel of your cold feet against my warm body The...

The sun drips fire on the clouds A final romance to the sky, parting I want to tell you That our setting is more than just the dark

Moving brings a sense of waitlessness Still, the second hand isn't smooth Lurching, shuddering, steps, forward Quivering between now and...

Inhale And out Wishing like a child beyond reach Somehow it was lost along the way Pennies, from holes in pockets Wild and vivid and...

Always Everywhere Searching Unknowing quite for what In the spaces of words and the patterns of the day Reaching for infinite in finite...

To do, what? The past receded as it always promised Leaving presents in its image Blind hands and broken fingers building walls

Someone once, on television spoke to me of stars. Bathed in blue light long past the bedtime I never had. Alone in wonder at the poetry...

I dreamed, or, maybe Memories Kissing all the freckles on your body one by one by one As I was when I was younger so much bigger Naming...

I touched you, once and my hands were stained with the gentle peace of afternoon wine and dark soil Leaving shads of you on everything I...

Yours was the only music that moved me Every song, voice cracking, from the gut An I feel it in my legs now The breaks and lightning...

How many words? This is that How many ways? Shall I compare thee to... Reaching for anything worthy Making mountains and miracles maze...

Unsaid so much unsaid If I could I would I say to myself Knowing how the words won't fall when you ask them to and How I'll dress the...

I do not dream at night Instead, they invade my days Until the lines between my memories and the monsters under my bed are all just so...

I think now (what then?) that all I was then The beauty and the peace Were mirrorly dreams and shapes from my own eye, I cast upon the...

Tenderness is an act of rebellion 'gainst a world woven so with pain To deny its call and meet each slight gently To love is an act of...

If you, my dear, were a candy you would be Black licorice (I hear you scoff) Because, you see, I fucking love black licorice And all the...

I couldn't understand your love for me Unworthy me A landscape of faults and leaden skies But I could love him, who you saw in me If only...