Untended Hearts

I swallowed the words irking a deadly silence within. The shapeless, seamless, serpentine streets, of the illusory looking glass and blue bottle shardsmelting the edges into whiffs of mollusc mistiness as it drops bit by bit by bit into the pools of flame of the mantelpiece. The denial of their absence exists in the wisps…

Seasoned

Chemtrails of blurring vision,  As the last of the flashes collapse Into a heap of grief and gloom, It walks back leaving muddy footprints Through the screen door And into the unknown. Piercing into peaches Now dripping gossamer egos Tasting the tangy trails in the truth Of a white lie and an orange brute. Unbuckled,…

Minuteglass

There were none to offer solace For the time that had passed me by Had me, pass it by. Grains of sand As they trickle through, Decamp the morbidity of the mortal realm Fathom all the life and suspend their self into death Only enough to lick it bare and drop it there. Stays not for the…

Lovers Parting at Sunrise are Not in Love

Let’s pretend that we are stuck in the wooden frames of the mind; of the room that hums rhythms off the wall Where the melody scatters with the droplets of my soul’s raging storms. Let’s rewind to the coffees and cakes and teaspoons of love and tenderness that lifts off all that heart’s ache  At…

Seedless Utterances

Ideas leaking out of the nibs fail to present sense on paper, pretend to slip away in the air exhaled as a sigh escapes my lips. Words that seem to rest on the tip of my tongue forever now resurrect and march back in thick lines of guilt wreaking havoc between the wires of my…

Love in the Dark Alleys

What do you know Of the stifled laughs and dirty shirts In the allies that breathe the darkness, All the night skies squeezed into a ball That lay in the pocket of your denims And tossed into ashtrays of crystal What do you know  Of the stained glass rims And smudged lips In the cheap hotels …

Standstill

It’s left us In all its glory A passing whiff of our pasts Throwing in scraps of memories Down my throat, Leaving me breathless Choking on air and crumbs of what was left of us. All I ever do is sit silently Waiting for it to drown me in its gigantic aura Crushing the lilacs…

Requiem for a Sinner

Stepping into the room   with tears ebbing   the rims of my eyes.   threatening to burst into   drops of cold ice.  Swirling in my mind   a thousand words   jumbled up and muddled   stuck to the knots   crushing my throat.  I wish I could   but I can’t   scream or cry or speak.   It chokes me   crushes me  …

Modern Revolutions

The dust that I harbour in the magnanimity of these ruinsswirls through the confusion and quiet collusion now in a spin running down the minds and the bones.Tracing the fading trails of a smashed Tennessee Somewhere in the deep wounds of their gory bodies.Trembling before the Triad with a smoke tucked under tonguesPraying in the laments of neon….