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  longer letter later

  

  By MyApocalyptic, Kasilof, AK

  beautiful boy, blue watercolour drying on a longer letter later kind of love, you were the mapmaker, the candlestick breaker the butcher, the baker the sky up above and you’ve nothing to say to me nowadays now that we’ve both gone our separate ways but I still remember the golden bla...
• Poetry > Free Verse
  things i need to say to ciaran

  

  By MyApocalyptic, Kasilof, AK

  in the back of my head understanding the only part of who I used to be that I’m still proud of and it was you who made me see the world as it is rather than how I felt about it and it was you who brought me out of myself and gave me a reason to belong to something like you, something reall...
• Poetry > Haiku
  her body as a resting place

  

  By MyApocalyptic, Kasilof, AK

  she is (or will be) the sleep I need; her body is a resting place....
• Poetry > Free Verse
  driving in at two am

  

  By MyApocalyptic, Kasilof, AK

  nothing like a hometown slipping in silently two am tired as nobody noticing familiar soft breathing as families sleeping in homes I know… gently… the world a bit wider in moonlight behind me doors closed like mountains or mountains like doors and the soft heavy sky a blue lover abo...
• Poetry > Free Verse
  some sense

  

  By MyApocalyptic, Kasilof, AK

  precious metal, whisper, jazz crook of neck, skin touch and dazzle dark of night and dawn of time end of love and end of rhyme repetition mailbox letter said she’d stay so go and get her junkyard hospice, black and blue curling lashes, “I love you” summer in the melting snow gauntface...
• Poetry > Free Verse
  what i stayed awake for

  

  By MyApocalyptic, Kasilof, AK

  i stayed awake for the stars and they did not disappoint; they followed me around like bright spirits, silver in a sea of empty night yeah I watched as the sun bade goodbye to the sky leaving a blue glow nestled in the crook of a giant’s shoulder and small burning angels stole heaven i s...
• Poetry > Free Verse
  the stars laugh at me

  

  By MyApocalyptic, Kasilof, AK

  the stars laugh at me because I am alone and because they cannot reach me...
• Poetry > Free Verse
  tarnish

  

  By MyApocalyptic, Kasilof, AK

  Heavy new soul, biting away at your Brave black words, Like they were candy or a pill that you could take to make the please remember me's just go away I see right through you, tired ocean eyes See your scars and all your bittersweet goodbyes Like they were mine, or just a memory of days...
• Poetry > Free Verse
  scarecrow

  

  By MyApocalyptic, Kasilof, AK

  the sound of scarecrows marching into a red cordial sunset thick and bittersweet like time i’d get drunk but we’d scare away the birds...
• Poetry > Free Verse
  it rained this morning (april 23rd, 2013)

  

  By MyApocalyptic, Kasilof, AK

  “We survived the winter”- a victory yawn at the end of an angry white April, as fat raindrops splash triumphantly into a sea of roadside snow on our morning drive, coffee-scented, swish and roar, with the radio turned off in order to hear our world’s birth, yeah, we survived the wint...
• Poetry > Free Verse
  Yeah I know what you're

  

  By MyApocalyptic, Kasilof, AK

  Yeah I know what you’re for. I know the furtive thinking, waiting, lips poised at the edge of a thick glass drunk on wonder and alone. I know all your wakings up and your goings to and fro; they are set on my collarbone like pearls swinging. Like pearls breaking. Yeah I know what you a...
• Poetry > Free Verse
  I sent my soul to space/yesterday

  

  By MyApocalyptic, Kasilof, AK

  I sent my soul to space yesterday and sat this morning in magenta light wondering what to do without it....
• Poetry > Free Verse
  i miss you

  

  By MyApocalyptic, Kasilof, AK

  anonymous, oblivious, you blend and lose your precious self-song...
• Poetry > Free Verse
  ...howl

  

  By MyApocalyptic, Kasilof, AK

  When I was a child- more of a child than I may be now- I looked forward to my 16th birthday like a religious man looks forward to meeting his God. It would be my Golden Age my Coming of Age the beginning of the Perfect Age… the beginning of my life as I would know it. As it turns out, t...
• Poetry > Free Verse
  april/april

  

  By MyApocalyptic, Kasilof, AK

  i’ve been drifting in an ocean of confusion will you help me? listen to me, there’s a pandora’s box filled with wonder will you help me understand me? april you’re a slow-melting snow-melting reason to discover and uncover certain beautiful secret parts of me am I another misplac...
• Poetry > Free Verse
  i woke up uncomfortable because

  

  By MyApocalyptic, Kasilof, AK

  i woke up uncomfortable because i dreamed you were climbing a mountain laughing and talking to me easy as anything as if you weren’t hanging for your life on a fraying rope with the peril of my waking up below...
• Poetry > Haiku
  nice dream/birds on a wire/top of the rock

  

  By MyApocalyptic, Kasilof, AK

  it was a nice dream; you were climbing a mountain and you didn’t fall. your hair had grown out you laughed like birds on a wire nimbly balancing on Top of the Rock high away and far asleep you reminded me....
• Poetry > Free Verse
  when I fell asleep I used to see

  

  By MyApocalyptic, Kasilof, AK

  when I fell asleep I used to see burning cities burning lips and tarnished keys and you, longlimbed thinfingered apparition, stretching your world to meet mine but out of time. when I fell asleep I felt the pain of chord progression dream regression shame and you, longlimbed thinfingered ...
• Poetry > Free Verse
  Poem for Adana

  

  By MyApocalyptic, Kasilof, AK

  wake up now; I’ve been waiting for you eagerly for your rough brown skin your sweet-smelling hair I’ve been waiting all winter to taste your soft breath cold and clean and laden with new things for a long time now I’ve stretched myself patiently against you and thought I felt you, ...
• Poetry > Free Verse
  somethin's comin'

  

  By MyApocalyptic, Kasilof, AK

  Mama’s on the telephone with Mike who’s working on the oil platform across the inlet— somethin’s comin’ there’s a tenseness in the world— we all look out the window and search blue sky as if any moment warplanes will fill it up. A bird flits by. Snow is melting from the black s...
• Poetry > Haiku
  in a whiteout

  

  By MyApocalyptic, Kasilof, AK

  I. neck hurts from dancing I slept in my contacts and on top of the world II. we taste shadows of hot smoke snowflake black coffee talk about futures III. and in a whiteout sore and warm and still searching we find the morning...
• Poetry > Haiku
  for Caf

  

  By MyApocalyptic, Kasilof, AK

  when I'm with you I think in haiku because it's a grand, tiny world we live in and you bring out the wise observer in my silly soul....
• Poetry > Free Verse
  march hare

  

  By MyApocalyptic, Kasilof, AK

  I am your march hare leaping about, wildly tossing my soft heart I touch your velvet bumpy spine and follow your little long footsteps into the nearly melting snow, but find only warm green suggestion...
• Poetry > Free Verse
  untitled

  

  By MyApocalyptic, Kasilof, AK

  Tonight I am going to sleep naked under mountains of soft blankets and thought warm and wake up to clear noonlight streaming in between tree fingers, the window breaking beams of bright gold dust red lip wild hair sock feet don’t care and if my hips are too wide as I stand before the mirr...
• Poetry > Free Verse
  sleeping in

  

  By MyApocalyptic, Kasilof, AK

  In the supermarket a woman pushes a cart half-full of dry cereal and Kraft mac-and-cheese. Her hair is dyed brown, haphazardly coiffed, lipstick tasteful and dried-out. Her body is getting thicker, her jewelry is plastic. She is thinking about a triangular piece of red white and blue folded...