TWENTY-EIGHT

each year
I've burned as bright
and fallen as far
I can't see anything out there
in front of me
just some distant stars
a clock constantly ticks and frogs sing
I'm afraid
if I turn the page, the story will be over
every day
is the end of my life

time and all his messengers

One day alone I made it mine by eating candy and then chips and then an apple and that was my 3 meal day. Salt is like songs, it gets me going and then it gets me sick. I guess for some it’s sugar that does the trick.

In the Dark

Your lover could be anyone
The width and density of his chest
The shallow silk of his breath
The mountain range of his profile
He could be an ex-boyfriend, that fling
Or the quietly humming man on the bus
Or himself, twenty years from now

You could be any age
You could wake up in the morning
and be sixteen years old
haunted by scratchy sheets
by a dream of width and silk.

Heavy sleepers

Heavy sleepers desu.
The u is silent
like the still life moving slow
of men on mats and sleeping
and blankets left to make mountains
or rolled up
with out them.
One reads for a little while,
but doesn't last long.

i had a dream last night
i saw a man approaching school
immediately knew he was a murdering pedophile
i saw him coming across the yard
all i could do was yell,
"pedophile pedophile pedophile pedophile"
at first no one listened
but as i sped across the grass they turned and followed
i tried to get to the door before him
he beat me inside without breaking his slow stride
i went in after him and attacked him
more joined in
we might've killed him
but then i woke up.

Affirmation 2011

Diction. Your name has been.
I used to see you. Someone flipped
a switch and now you just know
how to do it. A year is a long time--
I know what I'm looking for.