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Bricks and bones

Poems merely hands outstretched towards divinity hanging laurels on blood and beauty Cathedrals to memories Epitaphs for another time...

Tend

In two years time A lover left Their heart, in the shape of a breakfast With regret that it is not enough And the universe will continue...

Unfinished

In words and rhymes and metaphors I stretch to climb to heights Where I can see, enough at least, to say to you Just what it is I mean by...

The Gardener

You don't just bury someone once Closure is only the final Santa Claus we give up Living without means losing every time you remember...

Between

In truth I was just embers Straining to stay lit To be again ablaze In love with water's soothing touch Joyous to be warming Wondering...

Kneel

Rising again unbidden, in wonder, fleeting If this truly brought me nearer the heavens Or if I only craved the tension on the chains To...

Before the Walls

Deliberately forward Taught and white knuckled Praying through primal breaths For the ground, Fated Foe, To make its brutal way to me

Iyov

Oh to be a body before the storm Wild winds against the skin The smell of rain and promised fire To see the sky prepare its bellow To be...

Imminent

Strange It is unsaid That meant to be is always there But found unfinished Awaiting us to see it through Perhaps, sometimes I feel, the...

Fault

On an afternoon in springtime decided To do, not to falter in heart All granite conviction Brave and at peace with the ends On a morning...

The Struggler

Fleet fox Sunlight across the snow Never still, your body swift and nimble leaping to a fro I pass prayers to all the flowers And the...

Seinen

I never thought In Summer's splendor All bombast bravado and youth How heavy would be the stillness Patience and faith Watching shadows...

The Fugue

I feel now the great dreaming Warm and regal mantle when all the world become a mist of mere potentialities All crashing corridors and...

The Forest Knew Your Name

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...

From a stone

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...

Howllo

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

Curtains

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...

Oranges

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

Mass

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

Old Magic

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...

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