Melt

...What confidence do I have that I’ll ever hit the right target. All I see is an outline. Bullet holes in the wall. I could count them to see how many times I’ve missed you. And you’ve missed me. But I’d rather not...

Too Close

...The snow is flying around my ears like butterflies. And I’m leaving phone messages on answering machines so I won’t be tempted...

Tender

...You’ve shown up with wet hair. Looking like a child. Lost and disoriented in a crowd...

Repairs

...you appeared and disappeared within the span of these dark months. Plus another five odd days. But all those moments in your apartment listening...

Alive Again

...And in the morning the pipes were seized up. Someone forgot to keep the water running all winter. We forgot...

80s Rock All Over Again

...I asked God for your love for a lifetime. Now I’m trying to find a night when you could come over for an hour. To be alone. Oh Jesus, to be alone...

Upstairs

...I waited for years on end in little rooms without a lost soul calling. So now that I have a chance to go see you in the attic, I want to mention every mouse and every old newspaper clipping I see...

Another Night Of Theatre

...I stand outside myself and just watch the picnic blanket unroll with a crack into the wind. All of the extended family members of chaos have come to sit in the sun. Can I have a few bread crumbs? What about some of that suntan lotion that expired half way through last summer?...

Amusement

...Immediately inside there was a small iron train engine and some old fashioned cars. You could climb in them, but they didn’t go anywhere...

Footsteps

...Thought you were gonna tell me when you left. Play it on your homemade autoharp made of multi coloured yard sticks. In a cardboard box that should had an blue felt hat made around 1890...

Asleep

...In late Spring you’d have to taste every row of fresh green beans to find what’s left of me. But for you I would race through the traffic on a bus that was full of people and smelling of pepperoni. I’d bang on the door of the store that closed at 6 pm at 6:03 pm...

Fading

...I was ready to stand in the pit and look up at you at the edge. As we work the writer’s saw up and down by hand...

Dishes To Do

...There’s even peaches or pears on the side. Your choice. I got you both...

Aisle

...It's all such a boutique. Just a bit of wrapping ribbon to tie your wrists. Don't squirm too much...

You Can't Deny

...And as I lay there on the wet snow. With blood blooming as if it were a Spring rose, all I could think was “I’m too beautiful for this...

Resist

...And I played hookie from your padded cell. With every corner bright as the apocalypse under those florescent lights. Long and skinny and running with the heft of miniature subway cars...

Satisfied

...Should I watch the net rise with the incoming tide. Then return up the wooden stairs. Painted brown once a year. And wait. Wait the 8 hours. Watch the sky. Until the tide goes out again?...

Cheap Words

...On a dream that cost 2 thousand dollars at a minimum. And I’m exhausted from the fishing I have to do...

Only

...Of all the lies I told, there’s some truths I know. I know that love aint a sin. No matter how many directions it goes. I won’t have to ask the angels to overlook it...

Pocket

...Staring at the pursed red lips I got for Valentines and the starfish’s corpse outfitted with a decorative plaque that says “dream.” I prayed you would be back...