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…

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…

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…

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….