Tag Archives: sorrow

Innocence

Blindly, blindly, blindly, she reaps every choice from my scythe and asking. I live with brute innocence and murder in her heart. I am not her child, I am her fiction, her sad fable and paling wrath.

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Burn

The out of womb blues, torch song on code red alert– Slow burning for home.

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Drizzle

Listen raptly to the furls of drizzle pecking upon thin glass, and you will come to know how close dreams are to trespassing rare intimacy upon closed worlds and distances.

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Rare

This is how I grieve– words, pearlescent to glean, and bare, poured, like so much light, on petals bruised by touch and Beauty rare.

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Kiss

Among the feathery downs of dark, and silvery quiet, I find you, time and again, the filigreed stem of a lush red rose, a night kiss sealing air in shuttered mourning.

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Ghost

Classic ghost story, you have haunted your own life– No man’s epitaph.  

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Tramp

Modeling tatters, some masks cannot conceal truth– the poor man’s Jesus.

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Tissue

After her heart fell to seed for the first time, the young girl wondered– How many tissues throughout mortal history had been used to absorb the world’s weeping, fragile, tenuous nets for dreams that slip through?

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Caution

Vigilant tracking, she stalks life in wary frets– Caution testing fire.

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Lyric

Between passages, the molten birth of Lyric– In labor, she chastens.

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