A Dangerous Understanding

We: firestorm, flood, hurricane

We: disruption.

It overwhelms us.

In denial            we need.

                          we cost

Fully informed            we contact

                                    we do it

We must do it.

                                31.12.2015

Caves

Your voice

won’t echo here,

but hover

at my ragged points;

stalactite –

drip dripping steady ‘til

there are mounds

of you

at both my highs

            and lows.

                        11.06.2015

self-portrait

not quite lost but

seeking a bit of nothingness

to welcome her restless romp.

enough to taste relief,

and she would offer palms;

turn out her pockets.

for a moment

of stillness,

sacrifice comes cheap.

6.2.15

The Legend of Black Ice

Ice is all there was for miles
In every direction
Far enough, though, through squinted eyes,

one could see a tower there
A small city out that way
tufts of smoke hanging over

Buildings and things

Maybe sending signals
Or just doing what they do

Day by day, unaware of her.

Men would come - on journeys
Unworthy - unknowingly unworthy - stay a day

then go, leaving their heavy behind

with her

Black ice, they began to call her
for the elusiveness

the uncertainty and the way

her eyes could chill,
Evaporate salty sweat beads
And pull a frosty puff of
sour breath from their shivering lips

cut their feet out from beneath them, so quickly

And all they could do to keep

from hitting the ground was reach out eager arms,

sink a cool head into her bosom.

  

                              14 Jan '14

dining in the dark

i take it in, slowly

small bites, as to not aggravate

my cavities, too long unattended

still, like mounds sludging

down a conveyor belt, i can feel

it all making its way down

i feel heavy inside.

it’ll pass, i tell myself

this feeling, it’ll pass

then, another bite, bigger now

because i think i can handle it, endure

as I’m meant to.

                             nov 2013