another key opens the sunlight another day where the eyes dance mad with manic tension waking up shaking smelling flowers and stars that aren’t even really there I question the world as it spins on its tilted axis and clotted emptiness the sun here burns me to apathy I need the gray, the rain, the [...]
Tag: doubt
Dog Meat of July
There’s been a dead dog on the side of the highway for three days now. It was a German shepherd but now it’s just smashed in half and all tangled up. It’s two days from the start of summer, but it’s already been hotter than hell down here. That poor thing is just lying there [...]
Help. I Might Be In the Oven
Help. This world is killing me. That’s what I carved there in the desert, somehow hoping someone may see it. I stood up. It was much too hot. There was heat buzzing all around me. Funeral clouds swirled in the sky above me, calling me, calling me to someplace far from home. The divine undressing [...]
Darkness Cries A Winter
Darkness cries a winter’s tongue, cold as ice amongst my remnants as I am digging it at the shore, cold water blue slapping indigo hate marks against all the stone faces staring out all bewildered and dumb. I arc across the region of big love, a sparkler of flight, all fucking ignited and in love [...]
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 [...]