There is a river beside the trees that flows around the broken glass and hurries through the trays of ash that choke the birds and fumble words and smother all the roses. It winds around the crumbling brick, surging past half-painted walls and echoing through empty halls to wane and crash break back and splash…
Category: Poetry
The Cradle and the Crow
They are forged not birthed, the little girls with toes dipped in the grave, preyed upon by old crows perched on cradles, picking at dead flesh. In that sea of blood and half-life the pages of your holy book have grown damp. The trumpet has gone mute, and so you must carve your interpretation between…
Howl
A hundred thousand years ago before the first man’s rise, I chanced upon a trickster fox that promised me the nighttime skies. It led me to an empty field With its tail wound ‘round my wrist, “A simple trade” it said to me, “None but the foolish would resist.” “Look up,” whispered the fox to…
Nightsong
It’s 3:00 am and the flutter of your wing breaks open the cocoon of our tangled limbs. The quiet enters and we are again unsteady; Scarred by the song of the cuckoo bird that you can’t drown out and I still cannot hear. I reach out my hand, blind in the darkness, hoping to grasp…
Rush
The calendar ink is not yet dry and the days have begun to blur.
02:37
Look only at me. Need only me And in return, I will carve Your name into my bones. I am yet to discover if this is love or Madness.
Cult of Ammit
What love, if not mine, could burn as bright? Against your skin it moved hesitantly. You were the clipped bird that taught me flight and watched silent as I plunged into the sea. You were the threadbare peace I found solace in, as rough heartbeats lulled me to sleep. At your hands, I forgot what…
Rose Garden
You seek a love patterned in roses that open and close to the eyes that watch as you twirl and bloom in crowded rooms. My love would strangle the buds before the first flower, pierce the flesh of wandering hands that would stop for a moment’s curiosity. You do wrong to search for freedom in a…
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