give me a heaven i can believe in
and i will tear this one down like strips of wallpaper,
false angels wedged beneath my fingertips
my hands are destructive
but my heart is good
and visions of
stars harps clouds wings
bring me no comfort since you left
i don’t want you t...
there’s a corner of the terrace,
the rooftop of my once-upon-a-time-soul,
where i sketched your outline in chalk
as best as i could remember
i lay there sometimes on chilly evenings
curling up against your paved stone limbs
hugging scraped knees to my chest
and meeting the gaze of ever...
i was told
although i was the center of my own universe
the stars would not lie
at my feet
i stepped on them anyway
glitter littered
my frozen toes
and broken skin
i knew
walking barefoot through space
hadn’t been such a good
idea as perpetual dusk engulfed me
in one swollen g...
let me hide between your prophetic numbers
solve me, and i'm
all yours
again
1, 2, 3, we're running out of time
you.
me, dark'room
swimming in chemicals
(you
me)
a yellowing scrap of what we
could have been
no q.e.d. something won't factor out
or factor in
i'm not mak...
chlorine's ghost
still clinging to my skin
i emerge
cold air slices my dripping body
the abandoned fridge
embraces only a bottle of '96
chardonnay. i toast to happier times
[and three glasses later, a
primitive voicemail soliloquy
entreats your
memories, too]
a strange institu...