Tangles

I feel like we met in the park. What a pleasure it is to be able to lie to myself like that. I know we didn’t, but that’s where our brains…

The Lock Broke

We enter a three stall bathroom with thirty miles of nowhere in all directions. Flies buzz around in the rest stop’s lazy heat. I make my way towards the prize, a pristine and empty handicap stall, illuminated in the hazy orange light. Vince skirts in, dodging past the cramped row of clogged toilets…

in the absence of us.

the air is heavy

i’ve been spending my days in it

Sonnet II: Ardent Sun

Your loving sunbeams fill my heart with light
And your sweet smile clears a rainy day sky.
My heart beats bold like the moon shines at night,
And, in need, is eased by your lullaby.
But, with time, my light is on horizon
And the dusk leaves me in utter darkness,
Awaiting the dawn of my…

Coming to Terms with Poetic Humanity

A part of the cosmos,
A cosmospolitan of stars
Each in turn winking and blacking out.
I’ve drunk too much Nebulita tonight.

FALCON

The headquarters loomed in front of Jess, as shiny and chrome as it was featureless and brutalist. Her falcon Birdie sat patiently on her thick…