so the old man died,
his face knew lines, his feet also.
young self knew the country falter,
knew the second world war,
knew a pretty girl he didn't marry,
knew another he did.
new boots to turn old boots,
to be weathered and worn.
the cycle, the spinny spinny spin
of things.
we turn ...
You make me sick
With the way that
You only care if they're killing themselves
Because when they jump off
They just might fall on top of you.
And maybe they should.
Don't you see
that they're dying,
and that they are drowning in this gray,
And all you can say is,
'...
when you were new and
sun freckled, sun dried
playing in the drippity drip
of a water hose, with mama yelling
something that smiled in the heat and
across her flower beds.
you were young then, with thoughts that
had hands connected to long arms
that reached up into the place you find yoursel...
I curve against
the shape of you,
breathe in stuttery exhale inhale again;
my fingers tangle up in the space behind my eyelids,
foggy humid lost in the falltime, swallow up
the rainy season with days spent inside.
finger tips against my face your face
ribcage, pretty page of
love words andd...
see you caught up so
lovely lovely
mixed in and mixed up like a really bright
morning parade
if you're still a little tipsy.
we don't play that way much anymore,
we don't play much.
period,
like definitiveness,
over- analyzing like it's one of my tendencies.
it is.
s...
overwhelming like that
sticky scent of lavender
like it's dripping off my hair
and trailing down my face
with it's fragrant
too fragrant
aroma
almost like you're leaving
because the distance of your eyes
makes me feel like I'm gone already
and the sky just turned twil...
in a corner of my sleep,
I find you, piece by piece,
I put you together.
almost always your eyes are closed,
but you tell you tell me that
you love me.
recollection: I fell
(in love)
once.
and then I stopped falling,
because a surface decided impact
with me
would be a nice way to spe...
I'm about 45 minutes late,
every time,
too late to catch you living;
cleverly, you perch-
a carboard cutout man,
and this image of you sleepily penning
word upon word upon
memory;
and isn't that the very essence of
the present?
because for a good few months
out of the year,
...