JenBender

sometimes I have been in love but not like what this girl is a love beyond what love even means our clasping hands during dreams the night, sweet, the breeze, her beside me breathing in the dim darkness I look over to see her a beauty I can’t explain my heart settles in her like [...]

The Last Love

I found her she came out of nowhere some angel called beautiful holds me under the sun calms me through the storms loves me through everything no matter my faults, my scars she’s my last love the only one ever meant to be beautiful beyond beautiful and I hold her in my heart every single [...]

Stoop

There is a sober rain spilling against the screen of the window There is the serpentine gold chain of a pocket watch falling across my heart The bed sheets are cool The stars are quiet The floodlights of the neighborhood beam away all the enemies And I ramble my lonely eyes toward tomorrow As I [...]

the high ground

there is only time for love and then departure everything else in between is nonsense even through the trees I see this while the world so foolishly spins around out there, down there far below this mad altitude where I stand where I pray to no one, for no one all the listening blinded by [...]

The Swimming Window

And there were orange baptized bullets lodged in a wall of sea salt adobe and skull, a hard skull of architecture burned and bandaged the sun was far too bright as I dug them out with the tip of a knife and I was suddenly cursing the violence of Southwest sweat and artificial love and [...]

Bells

Loneliness is like a church bell softly banging on a Wednesday afternoon the bars are sparse, the shops are sparse the stars are hidden in their universal veils the heart is born wrecked maybe the heart gets puffed up at times by a birthday party or a summer trip to the cottage by the lake [...]

Rosaria Radiation

And it was the crack of a symmetrical dawn lepers hanging clothes with no sleeves legless pants heartless armor the sieve where all the heart pulp runs through and through straining the anguish with a lightning-tied spoon 4-leaf clovers come raining from the sky and he drives his Mercedes into a crowd of 12 oblivious [...]

Skeleton List

The fair light peaks at dawn this heart flattered by the rush another perilous tick tock another band of blue in a seemingly endless veil of gray say something for once say something that is real There's a motion in the air tonight as souls weave and collapse through American freedom Tees  the land of liberty [...]

Sun Girl

Happiness is the road Happiness is her in my heart The dawn of each new day She is my sun All the way running to the night Where everything she is Is cast wild across the stars To land in the places we will go In this world or that End to end Where the [...]

Furniture On Fire

Am I that man who fails to fall after being pushed a thousand times Am I that man who never knows what to say when the heart runs a fever Am I that man who still stokes the fires in the belly of the furnace once it becomes a rusting skeleton I don’t know I [...]