It's the nights that are the hardest, With the sky held back by city lights Shivering soul straining to leave this body's heavy grasp But...

Arose Soul naked and bared Shaking in the stark light And though you looked away I remained And saw myself for the first time

I hold gently now and speak softly. I laugh often and make light in every word because it was not always so. I was true once, And I...

All those adolescent prayers for peace, strength in solitude... The months pass without a word of farewell, no longer kissing goodnight....

All of it is so much banality. But some tore the stars from my sky and I will not let them go

You always ask permission To call in the night safeguarding sleep, you say As if I don't carry every moment in my heart As if I don't...

My breaths have become heavy sodden and dense With stories I can never tell you Truths I can never clothe Lest you fade into footnotes...

Poetry is Unswallowable contradiction. Bespoke words, precise, to grasp and hold Rip-torrent skies and wine-dark waves. Careful Measured...

Years had been woven Into the tree A seed unfolding in time Now blossomed a flame. The embers dance like stars in the sky Perhaps that...

The embrace promised by those glassy eyes beneath the inky sea Might flay the soul and mind. Still, The horizon stretches on forever, The...

In childhood I stole golden hours in books and found in them life and love and loss unfettered. Beauty and tragedy and Endless colors. I...

Courage? Do you know how the fire in my heart quivers at your touch? How the bellows in my chest quicken? To claim on my lips your...

What stars decreed, in cycles law, my hands to task my regular unmaking? To see how the love of what could be Drinks the blood of what...

Though love and beauty have sunk their thorns I cannot say I would have chosen Another way to be Perhaps and perhaps I managed to paint...

How narrow an edge is orbit Tearing at the edges of self making cuts in the laws of gravity, history, and iron cold causality Frantic...

Everyone told me, when I was younger To become something. But I wanted to be too many things I wanted to be everything Kaleidoscopic...

You said love desire and appreciation I said love understanding and acceptance Still Every falling star deserves a wish and wishes are...

Madness and love Like the border of bubbles in moonlight I practiced such delicacy Fearing the emptiness remaining if I reached and...

I wish I knew a way to show you without pushing you away But The truth of the matter is I cannot hold the words of praise you give While...

How many Augusts my love? 80 or so, I hear All just as hot, none like the last But finite and fleeting as dandelion fluff Let the heat...