The heights were not dizzying Perspective is a trick of the ground The lullaby of soil crunch solid between your toes Promising the...

I've been playing around more with narrative poetry lately. Part of me always pulls back to the abstract and maybe that will always be my...

When I wrote this it was a song lyric, something kind of folk-punk maybe. But I can't play any instruments or compose so it lives on as a...

My life was the dream of an ancient bear As the ravens picked it clean Spread round on the spores of its final crown Borne on golden beam...

Touch Brings blood to border And the fore- gone conclusion of crackling nerves Sky and earth bridging instant Made flesh Rhythmic...

The first time that I met you I knew I loved you. Cliche. But I knew it the way I know how to walk, in my body like the breeze enters my...

My heart, I think, would cease to beat were it not for your hand to squeeze. My lungs to fall without your breath to fill them... Strange...

Poems made her smile or cry I petaled them in truth She love them dearly Subtle lie Words made warm and blue My lovely gazer Mirror true...

I ache to ache again But courage was centuries ago

Seek flight Seek solace Make walls and blades and dim the light Succumb And lay your dreams to sleep To bleed alone beneath the earth A...

I used to dream of flying Child fancy To chase what no one else would dare That was the lesson Was it not? In a thousand and one notes...

Whether a thousand shattered windows or a hundred whispered words My grief stood mute and molten Soft beckoning tomb hand in hand in...

Chaos is as chaos does At least until it isn't A storm or a touch Can unmake in the mending And pain beget something more pleasant

The sun shines warm-bright and the air smells of trees Holding you at the start of new things There is thunder and singing running swift...

For if you'd rob once, rob twice. The heart beats in rhythm The soul breathes in rhyme So if you would thieve them I ask Lover dear That...

Questions hung from the corner of her lips Their feet swayed in the breeze A smile or frown oh gallows lord To tell me what will be

Out on paper or off a bridge This caustic sewn-apart Sovereign hamartia Stillborn to be Still-to-be-still-mybeatingheart Yearning Heaving...

You burned my soul Casually No malice, you were merely walking and stopped to pass the time. and when you passed all I was left with was...

The blade struck through my face revealing A porcelain façade Through cracks and splinters, blood and thunder, The million masks of God

Their world was heavy iron I knew no better Until the color fangtore through my ribs Mortal, finally Agony to touch I held it close...