The air was humid The void endless The stairs long The fanfare hollow A charming man On a solo trek Climbing slowly A weighted shoulder A square force Sadly hungry Eating to feed But no savoring Marching up No waving goodbye Just a wonder What wretched thing is […]
Everything is rusted but flowers can still bloom. Such a sentiment keeps her going day in and day out. Although, even a cactus couldn’t survive her care. It seemed like there was a dark cloud hanging over her. Everything around her was rusting away. No […]
It’s soiled Your face, your look, your tongue It all reeks of emptiness Why pretend to be clean As you leave behind a trail of dirt with no recompense. It’s muddy Your thoughts, your ideas, your vision They all criss-cross a blurred line The morning coffee […]
The Comfort of Animals on a Blue Monday It has been three years since my beautiful doggie Milo has left this realm. Every time I see a smooshed-face dog, I am reminded of him and I’m tempted to run up to the dog and hug him till […]
Its not my secret to tell Its NOT my secret to tell Yet it envelopes me in a tired, murky, hungry, insatiable darkness Excuses, tip of the tongue, inquisitive eyes ring a bell But your secrets are never told, And I am beholden to a rotten carcass […]
From one knife to another She covered her ears, lowered her eyes Leaving her rapid heartbeat exposed and compromised She locked the doors, hid in the closets Fingering the knife’s edges and imagining the body composites She sought a refuge, found a false sanctuary Disbelieving the knife indeed […]
Howl on a bloodstone: belt out your pain Last month in 1957, US. Customs seized hundreds of copies of Allan Ginsberg’s Howl. Today, Howl is free to hang around the shelves of many libraries, no longer subject to massive protests. I, thus, felt inspired to write a little piece. […]
I love life with all of my being The years have been a complex hard-fought journey Yet my calcified bones have found a zest for living But you make me want to die In that moment of fierce hatred I feel wounded, empty, and alone like a punctured […]
Today has been declared, by the media, academics and general punditry, to be the saddest day of the year. The fact that I smell a bit like a wet dog on the crowded commuter rail on my first day back to work from what was a very productive […]
Terror Terrorized Traces of escape befuddle the mind The hand wrings forth what the taped mouth could not endorse The glass eyes hemorrhage To the point of breakage Locked jaw and gritted teeth There is no respect to bequeath Scalding water peels the soul Leaving behind pails and […]
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