tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-50234992844660937602024-03-13T11:54:50.052-07:00Room for errorNSHhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14659406909888404658noreply@blogger.comBlogger26125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5023499284466093760.post-57493210965420520372019-08-11T17:45:00.003-07:002019-08-11T17:45:34.184-07:00universal lawI have made many things<br />
from small bones<br />
and drew a line<br />
to separate truth<br />
from fiction.<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />NSHhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14659406909888404658noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5023499284466093760.post-13451618695084456762019-07-10T12:32:00.001-07:002019-07-10T12:34:15.248-07:00an empty house only us How empty the house is<br />
yet birds build their homes around it.<br />
The grass uncut, a wild reentry.<br />
An unpleasant sound at night,<br />
the dogs barking past my thoughts.<br />
a deep unrest.<br />
<br />
I gather dust and sculpt defeat.<br />
And remember being sick often.<br />
Her hand props up the arches.<br />
The ceiling infests the corners of<br />
my mouth. I only speak to lizards,<br />
they talk back bitterly.<br />
<br />
She eats off of my plate and tosses<br />
the bones at me.<br />
The skeleton of childhood,<br />
we are arguing on the other side<br />
of this door.<br />
<br />
My mother and father now filled<br />
with sorrow as they listen to me<br />
repeat myself on the other side.<br />
I am knocking from outside<br />
no one here to let me in.<br />
<br />NSHhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14659406909888404658noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5023499284466093760.post-83908171425084182052019-05-17T16:44:00.004-07:002019-05-17T16:44:46.975-07:00unchanging
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<div class="p1">
<span class="s1">At the top of palms,</span></div>
<div class="p1">
<span class="s1">below,</span></div>
<div class="p1">
<span class="s1">an unmoving hand.</span></div>
<div class="p1">
<span class="s1"> Both sway,</span></div>
<div class="p1">
<span class="s1">both take time to drop<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></div>
<div class="p1">
<span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: initial;">their </span></div>
<div class="p1">
<span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: initial;"> branches</span></div>
<div class="p1">
<span class="s1"><br /></span></div>
<div class="p1">
<span class="s1">now browning on the ground</span></div>
<div class="p1">
<span class="s1"><br /></span></div>
<div class="p1">
<span class="s1">the ants remain</span></div>
<div class="p1">
<span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: initial;">and they are everywhere now.</span></div>
<div class="p1">
<span class="s1">She does not feel them biting.</span></div>
<div class="p1">
<br /></div>
<div class="p1">
<span class="s1">The rain settles in</span></div>
<div class="p1">
<span class="s1">the bowls of the branches</span></div>
<div class="p1">
<span class="s1">Stagnant water</span></div>
<div class="p1">
<span class="s1">til the sun dries out</span></div>
<div class="p1">
<span class="s1">my eyes too.</span></div>
NSHhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14659406909888404658noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5023499284466093760.post-21300754971828110922019-05-01T10:42:00.003-07:002019-05-01T10:50:04.135-07:00an ache, a pain<style type="text/css">
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<div class="p1">
<span class="s1">When you are left<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></div>
<div class="p1">
<span class="s1">severed </span>sharp cuts</div>
<div class="p1">
<span class="s1"> no blade</span></div>
<div class="p1">
<span class="s1">But the lance of words</span><br />
<span class="s1"><br /></span></div>
<div class="p1">
<span class="s1">Blindfolded</span></div>
<div class="p1">
<span class="s1">Marco.</span><br />
<span class="s1"> Polo. </span><br />
<span class="s1">You never saw me.</span></div>
<div class="p1">
<span class="s1">I never found you.</span></div>
<div class="p2">
<span class="s1"></span><br /></div>
<div class="p1">
<span class="s1">When you look through</span></div>
<div class="p1">
<span class="s1">and through.</span></div>
<div class="p1">
<span class="s1">And return to yourself</span></div>
<div class="p1">
<span class="s1">sitting on the floor,</span></div>
<div class="p1">
<span class="s1">a child in a bucket</span></div>
<div class="p1">
<span class="s1">who won’t turn off the hose.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></div>
<div class="p1">
<span class="s1">The sun is hitting your face.</span></div>
<div class="p1">
<span class="s1">A former self</span></div>
<div class="p1">
<span class="s1"> Now I'm waiting beside her</span></div>
<div class="p1">
<span class="s1">with a towel</span></div>
<div class="p1">
<span class="s1">to hold her close until she is warm again.</span></div>
<div class="p2">
<span class="s1"></span><br /></div>
<div class="p2">
<span class="s1"></span><br /></div>
<br />NSHhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14659406909888404658noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5023499284466093760.post-69299705456088187702019-04-03T09:15:00.001-07:002019-04-03T09:15:58.472-07:00
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<div class="p1">
<span class="s1">Do not feel sorry for me</span></div>
<div class="p1">
<span class="s1">I span the wings, </span></div>
<div class="p1">
<span class="s1">I uproot grounds </span></div>
<div class="p1">
<span class="s1">And spin webs over species.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></div>
NSHhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14659406909888404658noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5023499284466093760.post-17254780319258001492018-11-28T18:10:00.001-08:002018-11-28T18:10:53.848-08:00<div class="p1">
<span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: initial;">My body is breaking, </span></div>
<div class="p1">
<span class="s1">but my time cannot fail my feet.</span><br />
Use the best parts of me to build a column.</div>
NSHhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14659406909888404658noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5023499284466093760.post-23999093421595899092018-11-27T17:00:00.004-08:002018-11-27T17:03:43.262-08:00give up<style type="text/css"> p.p1 {margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 11.0px 'Helvetica Neue'; color: #000000; -webkit-text-stroke: #000000} span.s1 {font-kerning: none} </style>
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<div class="p1">
The snake tails<br />
look exactly like coconut trees.</div>
<div class="p1">
<span class="s1">In the hills, we found </span><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: initial;">our </span></div>
<div class="p1">
<span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: initial;">way towards an exit. </span></div>
<div class="p1">
<span class="s1">This time I said goodbye.</span></div>
NSHhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14659406909888404658noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5023499284466093760.post-63376441113276346562018-11-14T11:50:00.001-08:002018-11-14T11:58:15.446-08:00Undesire<div class="p1">
<span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: initial;">Dear dear</span></div>
<div class="p1">
<span class="s1">untie sorrow, an unspecified locus<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></div>
<div class="p1">
<span class="s1">to keep its remains.</span></div>
<div class="p1">
<span class="s1">To rest in this gyre.</span></div>
<div class="p1">
<span class="s1">For you, the distance.</span></div>
<div class="p1">
<span class="s1">If you leave, remember.</span></div>
<div class="p2">
<br />
<span class="s1"></span></div>
<div class="p1">
<span class="s1">You’re the splinter in my foot.</span></div>
<div class="p1">
<span class="s1">Take it out,</span></div>
<div class="p1">
<span class="s1">but never reduce</span></div>
<div class="p1">
<span class="s1">the swelling.</span></div>
<div class="p2">
<br />
<span class="s1"></span></div>
<div class="p1">
<span class="s1">My heart has spaces,</span></div>
<div class="p1">
<span class="s1">but pour warm water<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></div>
<div class="p1">
<span class="s1">between its cracks.</span></div>
<div class="p2">
<span class="s1"></span><br /></div>
<div class="p1">
<span class="s1">The slow burn to my bones,</span></div>
<div class="p1">
<span class="s1">A charred existence<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></div>
<div class="p1">
<span class="s1">now coated with molasses.</span></div>
<div class="p1">
<span class="s1">A sticky mending.</span></div>
<div class="p2">
<span class="s1"></span><br /></div>
<div class="p1">
<span class="s1">Move through it</span></div>
<div class="p1">
<span class="s1">a subterranean member–</span></div>
<div class="p1">
<span class="s1">Now quick and low waves grant me<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></div>
<div class="p1">
<span class="s1">the access needed to catch momentum.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></div>
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<div class="p1">
<span class="s1">If I’m moving, I'll remember.</span></div>
NSHhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14659406909888404658noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5023499284466093760.post-22862642272189132342018-11-12T07:48:00.000-08:002018-11-18T17:32:54.268-08:002 women<style type="text/css"> p.p1 {margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 11.0px 'Helvetica Neue'; color: #000000; -webkit-text-stroke: #000000} span.s1 {font-kerning: none} </style>
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<div class="p1">
<span class="s1">Tearing off small pieces. </span></div>
<div class="p1">
<span class="s1">Ashes smudge the bones.</span></div>
<div class="p1">
<span class="s1">If space and time, cause to forget. </span></div>
<div class="p1">
<span class="s1">I’ll forget my own heart on the front porch for the dog to play with.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></div>
NSHhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14659406909888404658noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5023499284466093760.post-62076410175305774932018-10-28T07:36:00.000-07:002018-10-31T06:17:09.592-07:00whittlereach day,<br />
the sea takes back<br />
a little piece of the island.<br />
<br />NSHhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14659406909888404658noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5023499284466093760.post-43822723906406361652018-10-24T09:03:00.001-07:002018-10-24T14:19:49.848-07:00Power of ten or the effect of adding another zero.<div class="p1">
<span class="s1">the body from outside.</span></div>
<div class="p1">
<span class="s1">add zero.</span></div>
<div class="p2">
<span class="s1"></span><br /></div>
<div class="p1">
<span class="s1">The body from within.</span><br />
add zero.</div>
NSHhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14659406909888404658noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5023499284466093760.post-59322283818885007942018-08-24T10:30:00.000-07:002018-11-02T06:31:51.105-07:00blah blah paradiseWhat magic and charm,<br />
the gulls flap around your skull<br />
A blissful day for pleasantries.<br />
Here it blooms,<br />
algae gold.<br />
<br />
pink, blue, white.<br />
The land plots to divide us all.<br />
<br />
But the sandflies reclaim their time.<br />
Only sunset will honour us<br />
Don't walk on the sand<br />
Stay in the water or leave.<br />
<br />
<br />NSHhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14659406909888404658noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5023499284466093760.post-64590644016405309432018-08-15T08:21:00.000-07:002018-08-15T08:21:46.640-07:00The colour of boneYou're pale in comparison.NSHhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14659406909888404658noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5023499284466093760.post-89090494631897474482018-08-07T18:16:00.001-07:002018-08-15T08:18:44.506-07:00loopingTo fold finitely into this<br />
Month's rent receipt.<br />
As wet pages<br />
Filled new ink along the ridge<br />
No lines for reading between.<br />
Only drawn and drawn.<br />
<br />
Here in hiding<br />
Tamper with my temperament.<br />
The night's basin,<br />
a shadowless place<br />
No thought to renounce ache.<br />
Another month comes looping.NSHhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14659406909888404658noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5023499284466093760.post-30442035006902527572018-07-26T18:06:00.002-07:002018-07-26T18:08:55.498-07:00neck and neckIsland people will shovel you into shame.<br />
Only your bones will stay upright,<br />
The rest of you will melt and wash<br />
down the gutters.<br />
Even the dogs will eat whats left.<br />
<br />
My chest heaves cold things<br />
even in the hot sun at 2pm.<br />
<br />
The sea grape leaves will take into consideration<br />
each passing day and burn themselves<br />
through the salt spray of each broken wave.<br />
I am the unexpected guest that tumbles up along the coast.<br />
There I haul myself out each day,<br />
To throw myself into the wind.<br />
To walk on the cusp of another man's boundary line.<br />
<br />
I figured out how to climb on top of limbs<br />
of the legacy of old men in grey pants.<br />
But the drive there is quicker.<br />
I peered over the wall,<br />
A tropical garden manicured with<br />
Bad attitudes and contempt.<br />
<br />
I thought we were neck and neck<br />
But I retracted as the tortoise walked away.<br />
Still a stranger,<br />
But only the invisible remain.<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />NSHhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14659406909888404658noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5023499284466093760.post-64573022499884734342018-07-11T07:50:00.001-07:002018-07-11T08:15:18.483-07:00future past A fermented memory––<br />
it stays too long.<br />
<br />
The scaffolding of two people<br />
reinforcing and affixed.<br />
The worker tiptoed across my tongue,<br />
still brings out the curse in me.<br />
<br />
The long hand became the slowing of time.<br />
A minute behind.<br />
still,<br />
A second chance.<br />
<div>
<br /></div>
<br />
<br />
<br />NSHhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14659406909888404658noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5023499284466093760.post-5575672579756286382018-07-11T07:49:00.002-07:002018-07-26T18:09:40.032-07:00A map of two places<div class="p1">
<span class="s1">We have always been in<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></div>
<div class="p1">
<span class="s1">two separate places.</span></div>
<div class="p2">
<span class="s1"></span><br /></div>
<div class="p1">
<span class="s1">On a map of the world,</span></div>
<div class="p1">
<span class="s1">we are drawn apart. </span><br />
<span class="s1">Not </span>in the same place at once.</div>
<div class="p2">
<span class="s1"></span><br /></div>
<div class="p1">
<span class="s1">I flew over your new home tonight;</span></div>
<div class="p1">
<span class="s1">Our distance now measured </span>in altitude.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></div>
NSHhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14659406909888404658noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5023499284466093760.post-31612923891157206252018-04-26T13:01:00.003-07:002018-04-26T13:01:43.566-07:00Squatter's rights It was the rainy season.<br />
The termites nest followed me into<br />
Each place I moved into<br />
<br />
I suppose you legally live here now.<br />
<br />NSHhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14659406909888404658noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5023499284466093760.post-16139739738033848782018-01-18T06:43:00.002-08:002018-01-18T06:43:52.611-08:00House –––– ^<br />
| |<br />
<br />
<br />
A place to sleep<br />
A place to die<br />
A place to reimagine<br />
A place to fall in love<br />
A place to build<br />
A place to destroy<br />
A place to eat<br />
A place to cry<br />
A place to laugh<br />
A place to leave<br />
A place to return to.NSHhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14659406909888404658noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5023499284466093760.post-52701825124025687102018-01-18T06:40:00.001-08:002018-04-01T08:42:12.487-07:00I bruised,<br />
I grazed,<br />
I spun your love around my neck.<br />
<br />
Those were not bells,<br />
But a welder pounding<br />
The last hours of his workday.<br />
<br />
I was not walking,<br />
But the ground was sliding.<br />
<br />
It was bitter,<br />
But I burnt the pot even more<br />
to find its sweet.<br />
<br />
I didn't want to remember,<br />
So I folded myself like old bed sheets,<br />
Crossed twice at the same crease.<br />
And put it at the top of the cupboard.NSHhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14659406909888404658noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5023499284466093760.post-42119525481459916322018-01-18T06:36:00.001-08:002018-01-18T06:36:24.999-08:00Prosper landA collection of love<br />
scraped out from the corner of the room.NSHhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14659406909888404658noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5023499284466093760.post-52882636308643292262018-01-11T06:31:00.001-08:002018-01-11T06:31:08.661-08:00He is<span style="background-color: #fffffa; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">He is</span><br />
<span style="background-color: #fffffa; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"><br /></span>
<span style="background-color: #fffffa; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"><br /></span>
<span style="background-color: #fffffa; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">Where no light finds its way through </span><br style="background-color: #fffffa; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: #fffffa; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">My apartment windows, </span><br style="background-color: #fffffa; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: #fffffa; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"> where it smells of cigarette ash and his.</span><br style="background-color: #fffffa; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><br style="background-color: #fffffa; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: #fffffa; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"> Smack dead </span><br style="background-color: #fffffa; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: #fffffa; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">in the middle of my conversations </span><br style="background-color: #fffffa; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: #fffffa; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"> Taking up too much</span><br style="background-color: #fffffa; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: #fffffa; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"> space </span><br style="background-color: #fffffa; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: #fffffa; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">with my furniture and books.</span><br style="background-color: #fffffa; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><br style="background-color: #fffffa; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: #fffffa; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">Watching the TV (too loud) </span><br style="background-color: #fffffa; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: #fffffa; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">with all the lights off.</span><br style="background-color: #fffffa; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><br style="background-color: #fffffa; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: #fffffa; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">The leaves and blossoms </span><br style="background-color: #fffffa; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: #fffffa; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">I used to sweep out from the second</span><br style="background-color: #fffffa; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: #fffffa; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">Floor every other week (sometimes).</span><br style="background-color: #fffffa; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><br style="background-color: #fffffa; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: #fffffa; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">A new piece I did that I could never email to you</span><br style="background-color: #fffffa; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: #fffffa; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">Because everything I send has a virus.</span><br style="background-color: #fffffa; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><br style="background-color: #fffffa; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: #fffffa; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">An incomplete studio space that we </span><br style="background-color: #fffffa; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: #fffffa; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"> hide in together </span><br style="background-color: #fffffa; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: #fffffa; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"> Because I’m afraid of hurricanes.</span><br style="background-color: #fffffa; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: #fffffa; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">(while you turn down the radio as I fall asleep on the counter)</span><br style="background-color: #fffffa; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><br style="background-color: #fffffa; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: #fffffa; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">Sleeping in my bedroom without a shirt on.</span><br style="background-color: #fffffa; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><br style="background-color: #fffffa; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: #fffffa; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">Hanging up the phone before I could say goodbye.</span><br style="background-color: #fffffa; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><br style="background-color: #fffffa; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: #fffffa; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">A Ginsberg poem I read only once.</span><br style="background-color: #fffffa; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><br style="background-color: #fffffa; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: #fffffa; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">A house with no architect; </span><br style="background-color: #fffffa; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: #fffffa; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">only floor plans with</span><br style="background-color: #fffffa; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: #fffffa; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">An estimate of how long that body</span><br style="background-color: #fffffa; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: #fffffa; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">Has been lying in the hallway.</span><br style="background-color: #fffffa; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><br style="background-color: #fffffa; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: #fffffa; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">A project site that I would go to and measure the walls.</span><br style="background-color: #fffffa; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><br style="background-color: #fffffa; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: #fffffa; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">An affair with other women.</span><br style="background-color: #fffffa; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><br style="background-color: #fffffa; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: #fffffa; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">A last drink then we’re going home</span><br style="background-color: #fffffa; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: #fffffa; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">(but I would leave you and walk instead)</span><br style="background-color: #fffffa; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><br style="background-color: #fffffa; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: #fffffa; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">A knock on my door</span><br style="background-color: #fffffa; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><br style="background-color: #fffffa; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: #fffffa; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">Driving too slow, and I want to go home.</span><br style="background-color: #fffffa; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><br style="background-color: #fffffa; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: #fffffa; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">Leaving me to wait in the schoolyard until 7pm.</span><br style="background-color: #fffffa; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><br style="background-color: #fffffa; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: #fffffa; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">4 dogs that escaped through the fence while I wasn’t looking.</span><br style="background-color: #fffffa; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><br style="background-color: #fffffa; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><br style="background-color: #fffffa; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: #fffffa; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">And I am</span><br style="background-color: #fffffa; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: #fffffa; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">A 7 year old in a bar soaking wet/sandy feet, standing over you </span><br style="background-color: #fffffa; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: #fffffa; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">Begging to stay a little longer...</span>NSHhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14659406909888404658noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5023499284466093760.post-60130840445692885152018-01-11T06:29:00.003-08:002018-01-11T06:29:57.169-08:00Home<span style="background-color: #fffffa; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">My heart is tethered</span><br style="background-color: #fffffa; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: #fffffa; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">between wrought iron </span><br style="background-color: #fffffa; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: #fffffa; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">and quick tempers</span><br style="background-color: #fffffa; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><br style="background-color: #fffffa; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: #fffffa; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">In the house, a man was waiting:</span><br style="background-color: #fffffa; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: #fffffa; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">silver skin, sharp chin</span><br style="background-color: #fffffa; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: #fffffa; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">eating the remains with his corbeau mouth</span><br style="background-color: #fffffa; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><br style="background-color: #fffffa; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: #fffffa; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">My cloaked heart slips through the gate,</span><br style="background-color: #fffffa; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: #fffffa; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">and past March, April, June</span><br style="background-color: #fffffa; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: #fffffa; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">my palms are stained with the smell of rust,</span><br style="background-color: #fffffa; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: #fffffa; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">dust and rotting wood under my tongue,</span><br style="background-color: #fffffa; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: #fffffa; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">unopened mail behind each rib </span><br style="background-color: #fffffa; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><br style="background-color: #fffffa; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: #fffffa; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">What's heavy will hurt. </span><br style="background-color: #fffffa; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: #fffffa; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">I took a small boat away</span><br style="background-color: #fffffa; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: #fffffa; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">Half way there</span><br style="background-color: #fffffa; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: #fffffa; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">I lost my oars</span><br style="background-color: #fffffa; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: #fffffa; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">(abandoned)</span><br style="background-color: #fffffa; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><br style="background-color: #fffffa; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: #fffffa; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">Flung and tossed like a child</span><br style="background-color: #fffffa; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: #fffffa; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">into the channel</span><br style="background-color: #fffffa; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: #fffffa; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">"Are you afraid of what's below?"</span><br style="background-color: #fffffa; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: #fffffa; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">you're just froth below the horizon.</span><br style="background-color: #fffffa; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: #fffffa; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">you're just a speck in time</span><br style="background-color: #fffffa; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><br style="background-color: #fffffa; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: #fffffa; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">The dark whale should swallow me whole,</span><br style="background-color: #fffffa; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: #fffffa; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">but instead I lay my head in the day's end, </span><br style="background-color: #fffffa; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: #fffffa; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">like resting on warm thighs</span><br style="background-color: #fffffa; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: #fffffa; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">My mother's own.</span>NSHhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14659406909888404658noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5023499284466093760.post-84634088745697293852018-01-11T06:29:00.001-08:002018-01-11T06:29:31.422-08:00Not you, but me<i style="background-color: #fffffa; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">Not you, but me</i><br style="background-color: #fffffa; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><br style="background-color: #fffffa; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: #fffffa; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">I've crossed every stone,</span><br style="background-color: #fffffa; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: #fffffa; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">A trail through the bay to your heart.</span><br style="background-color: #fffffa; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: #fffffa; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">Tossed among sunken ships,</span><br style="background-color: #fffffa; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: #fffffa; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">Just a wreck in your deepest harbor.</span><br style="background-color: #fffffa; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><br style="background-color: #fffffa; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: #fffffa; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">You're the coral I cut my knee on</span><br style="background-color: #fffffa; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: #fffffa; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">And the salt in its wound.</span><br style="background-color: #fffffa; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: #fffffa; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">I swam over you at low tide,</span><br style="background-color: #fffffa; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: #fffffa; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">Should have known not to.</span><br style="background-color: #fffffa; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><br style="background-color: #fffffa; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: #fffffa; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">Torn at the seam,</span><br style="background-color: #fffffa; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: #fffffa; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">No comfort in the folds.</span><br style="background-color: #fffffa; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: #fffffa; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">Just an old towel hanging out</span><br style="background-color: #fffffa; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: #fffffa; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">On the porch to dry.</span><br style="background-color: #fffffa; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: #fffffa; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">I'm a stagnant bay,</span><br style="background-color: #fffffa; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: #fffffa; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">sand trapped under my tongue.</span><br style="background-color: #fffffa; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: #fffffa; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">No words to undo.</span><br style="background-color: #fffffa; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><br style="background-color: #fffffa; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: #fffffa; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">You drew a line as you </span><br style="background-color: #fffffa; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: #fffffa; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">walked away from me. </span><br style="background-color: #fffffa; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: #fffffa; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">Farther and farther,</span><br style="background-color: #fffffa; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: #fffffa; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">A distant island hidden by the clouds.</span>NSHhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14659406909888404658noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5023499284466093760.post-7606254043952475042018-01-10T10:25:00.002-08:002018-01-19T07:15:11.946-08:00MillipedeThe morning bursts<br />
My vein pricked twice.<br />
Not too long,<br />
The rock was removed -<br />
Now my life exposed.<br />
I curled around you<br />
Into a millipede<br />
Until you were gone.<br />
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