tinder

the simple dreams collide with expectations
in explosive milestones and similar failings
flames leap from the crash with fearless hellos
'don't collapse,' they say
'we will all be together in the end'

and the flames never impose their beliefs on anyone
burning reassurance--unflickering passion
the collision of dreams and expectations
is inevitable in this cold state
in our cold state

'fear not, children in the mist
we will all be together in the end'

for the rain

the flowers swirled in the wind
mesmer eyes did i watch as one petal
floated towards the earth

. you are so beautiful in the rain



pendular like an oscillating love
the busses go by and by such that
i don't miss them when their gone

soaking wet i lift you off the world
and kiss you into a distant paradise



clasped inside a necklace and snapped
inside a dragon, collected inside the tiniest
wet droplets on the tip of my nose

. i'll never forget the happiest tears
. i'll never forget the trespassing love
. and i'll never forget
. the water massing in your eyelashes

. you are so beautiful in the rain

all but a corner

there was the package receipt on the ground
there it was
the upper right corner was torn completely off
the bottom left was smothered in mud
signed in the middle was a scribbled: JB
the excitement was almost illegible
due to yesterday's rain
and i picked it up
folded it three times

and placed it in my pocket

avance, mon ami.

shiver dawn, shiver dawn
let's go back to sleep
i trusted sweetness
and my arm tingled on
'neath your warm neck

lonely rose, lonely rose
c'mon and feel the scar
i lived as a vaseful
i withered, lonely rose
until nothing was left

candle light, candle light
i beg you to enchant me
i bled slow dancing
i treated you to darkness
you flickered me alone

feathered dream, feathered dream
i feel your wings inside me
i've lost the earth below
you caress the lonely dawns
and fly me to your home.

breeze

there you are

in the breeze. you are so soft

all around me. you fly it all

away from me and leave

just you and me. and

here we are.

through the silhouetted leaves

i love when she laughs and closes
her eyes are the little beauties of the night
that still me and keep me aligned like
the constellations i see through the trees

and beautiful constellations they are

i love when she touches my heart with
her tender tender kisses and they reach
deep inside of me further than any one
could possibly reach by accident

and beautiful eyes and hand-holding star-gazing
face-brushing heart-racing nights

and beautifully slow does the evening pass
i thank my stars the connected stars
that the minutes i have with beauty
last as beautifully long as they do

and i can use that word, beauty, as often as i want
because it is my word, now it is mine again

oh i love you my beautiful constellations
i love you my midnight moonkisses
i love you sparkling eyes with
our hands interlocked
in our own perfect
beautiful
scene

burning passion, remedy

he didn't hear the beat
though it was loud as birth
he was lost within himself
and he was losing everything

i stuck my greatest asset
into my best oven
and baked it at 425
to serve at his party

but he didn't show

explanation of to stay

i, too, had a dream last night

in it i fell fell like in every other night
the scenery changes sometimes the temperature
but i was fallling falling like always last night
and i passed by a new scene called LIGHT
it touched me for the split second it lasted
it lifted me it shocked me it freed me
i managed to snap my arm out and tear a slice
and i tasted the LIGHT and it was so tempting
it was so good i wanted more i had to have more
i was falling further and further away and i needed
i needed i needed and i had wanted for so long
the LIGHT
but i was scared, i was shocked, this was finding what i lost
i wasn't ready was i not? i was tempted so i stopped
i let the scene pass me by so i could have some time
time to think time to think and decide what to do
about this scene that caressed me, what to do about
the LIGHT
i waited half a day and opened my eyes to see that i was still falling
falling again like always and i could barely see the light and it
it was leaving me? it was floating higher as i fell it was shrinking
becoming just as dark as what lay below me
so i stretched out my arm. i stretched it for inches and feet and miles and days
and i stretched it for three months exactly
and i grabbed hold of the light and pulled it into my heart
and i loosened my grip
and it stayed close to me and i knew it meant it
and i held the light like i hold a lover
like one holds a dream in the morning
like one holds infinity in the afternoon
like a teacher holds a book
like a student holds the first lesson he ever learned
i held the light like i hold a lover

and when i woke up
she kissed me softly on the lips