Saturday, 13 May 2017

A Million Miles Away


We are not winners.  We are mantras.  We are encouraging words sent to each other in emails that we won’t really mean.  We are inspirational quotes on posters with rays of light piercing clouds while beautiful people look on.  We are the two-sentence explanation that solves what ails the protagonist.  We are the ones who know, not so deep down inside, that next year will be no different from the last.  We are the dozens of therapists who ran out of techniques to lay siege against our fortress of failure.  We are winning at losing, and you will never stop us.

So he says.  So he says.

Friday, 12 May 2017

Stone


Far out of your orbit
spinning in slow motion
Trying to shout louder
than a kitten’s mewling
Will the planets find me
all my silent crying
When now I can feel nothing
only my plates shifting
Into old arrangements
nothing ever changes
nothing at all...

Thursday, 11 May 2017

January's Relapse


Most remained here with me

I gave some to the wind                       
the wind that separated my toes

but something 
stayed    crept     poked
inside
whispered
never mind the frost 
outside
inside is just as cold

Wednesday, 10 May 2017

History


No telling how the earth 
will record this 
disaster
whistling dixie in
the wind
as if I had the answer
            ballet with fractured form
broken by vengeful rapture
the hammer flung against
the wall

Tuesday, 9 May 2017

Over


Here in your believing
triumph is fleeting
from so far away
no tongues left to speak in

Monday, 8 May 2017

Untethered



Every sneaking suspicion
every whispering dream
lost
to the pale and 
infinite 
sky

Saturday, 6 May 2017

Collision


I wonder how I will know 
when the sky becomes 
my master
when dreams of yesterday 
stop mocking me with 
laughter
tomorrow is today tornadoes
circling my trailer
I was wrong over
and over 
again