my slip into uselessness / comes in further form / my becoming has begone

I toss letters in a bowl / you think you know me / playback like pages

I come here to write 'bout you / I come here to write / and all I can see is me

all ideas gone / flipping switch after switch / leaving love in soil

somebody to talk / pulling strings without hands / separated yolk

my shame undenied / distant cry of perfection / responsibility

It's in the telling / aural histories / clenched eyes still hear

brain sick / she collapses in three / hand's time wave me by

shadow people / thinking they're silhouettes / until they reach the day

window dug mountains / a crystal clear center / a chipped edge

her eyes cried / like the painted horse / dripped from the wall

blackened heart / coyotes gnaw / unsupervised flesh

each and every / tiring to watch / each and every

he said / I was sexy / until I started to talk

lemon bitter / she choked / on throated words

the wind / a metal grinder / wiping away tears

the suck of granite / grinding too / my avalanche free

dancing across my own nightmares / I trip on the illusion of happy / broken teeth scatter like gravel

waited longer / to each / his dinosaur

who cares / last rites / filter through

mosquitoes feast / the last of my integrity / through hypodermic needles

me against the swarm / life / equals a pin prick

sex of strangers / under nightfall's finger / pressed to prints

she will / her will / undeniable

as he killed the last of the bugs / she wonder how to tell him / she's leaving

the moon / whispered in her ear / telling her it will be okay

she wore the same clothes / hoping she'd be washed away / too

they feasted / upon my ankle / where gravity rules

counting to ten / she put a dozen eggs / in her basket

blinked twinkle lights / she closed her eyes / remembering a decades old christmas

digging out my own root / measured spoonfuls / making small piles of earth

she peeled back his skin / licking each eyeball before / a spoonful of brains

the long wait / visual neurosis / one bag packed

festive / furtive / fertile

garland of time / blooms as I age / pinned across the nourished sky

my thoughts / projected to the sky / spelled out in stars

licking the sweat / from between my ribs / he devoured my soul

he became stone / dreaming of my lips / exploring his cliffs

she became a song / as he pressed / exploring her mind

mornings / the noise outside my head / materializes

suck of air / my lungs compress / still breath

sleep in my eyes / dusted boulders / mountain tumbled

intimacy of the wind / knowing my skin / further into the desert

she painted / on eyebrows / coffee grounds

love letters / meaning nothing / meant everything

her eyes / made of skies / raining through the storm

every footprint / interpreted like the last / relatively subjective

I know where this is going / ease crumbled / to rubble

love / fabric threaded / stitch ripper

clouds / filled with / I don't knows

so protected / where you once / weren't

scalpeling love / from my every thought / wasted like summer rain

passed along / old fruitless trees / and their shallow roots

she left herself / only to find / she is the same

I am / nothing / now

how unfair of me / to demand / the way things should be

she said she loved him / she really does / but it doesn't mean a thing

monologue of fools / filling holes / left in my brain

every word / a book of meaning / read by the careless

my whispers / the sound of shouting / in my head

stray cats / slicked by rain / wait under the eves

eyes / to points / the wrong perspective

squishing eyeballs / frozen grapes / in wine

this is hard / diamonds wrapped in titanium / dropped to the bottom of the sea

extra bits of flesh / the sweetest meats for the feast / gnawed on like pork rinds