the shapes that fill empty spaces

with love

2011-05-21T22:40:00.000-07:00

go here now - it's all there!

2011-03-03T23:49:00.001-08:00

The black's behind the door
it opens and we are left needy
with sores on our arms
and a dark grimace on our lips

2011-01-15T02:30:00.000-08:00

Older now, though not more wise for drink
and not more respectable for love of order;
I come bent like a piece of indolent driftwood,
a bit of prone and passionate flotsam,
half bent and half buried,
where the river meets the sea.

2010-03-05T00:06:00.001-08:00

As the rain fell,
The box opened.
My love, once asleep, arose slowly.

Rainforest

2010-02-26T02:04:00.001-08:00

Ghosts see the world as if through a shutter.
Moss hangs over their eyes in a drone of falling water.

2009-09-18T13:39:00.000-07:00

Sitting at Vivace
One unsweetened ice tea
One cheese croissant
Bikes with goat-horn handlebars
Men in white hats and orange vests hanging from scaffolds
Marble tabletops veined like a smoker’s lung
Nose-rings and jean skirts
The din of conversation
The drone of the low bass
The hiss of the milk-steamers

two cats in a zoo

2009-06-11T01:33:00.000-07:00

417 nesting pairs (+1), alone without a chaperone
“You shouldn’t read this. It’ll make you cry.”

Another cat tears meat from a bone;
Blood in her smile, she licks the tears away.

2009-05-25T01:39:00.000-07:00

blood pours from
the keyhole in my forehead,
as she inserts the key.

2009-05-12T10:15:00.001-07:00

the name of someone so close
comes off the lips like a foreign word

2009-05-12T10:01:00.000-07:00

The steely smell of my fingertips
The sheets of gray sky
The snot lodged in my nose
The stacks of dirty laundry

Are not impressed by my good looks
and charming personality

2009-05-12T08:56:00.000-07:00

“Your eyes look weird,
like you haven’t been sleeping,
or like you’ve been asleep for a long time.”

2009-04-25T00:28:00.001-07:00

I think of her lily scented skin
Wine tastes like butterscotch and cotton candy
My fingers smudge the glass

2009-02-19T23:12:00.001-08:00

her soft skin
stops my breath

eclipse

2008-10-22T23:00:00.000-07:00

the world fades
as the moon slowly passes
over your soft lips

2008-10-22T22:22:00.000-07:00

i choke
on my perfect day

the jewel

2008-10-09T11:32:00.000-07:00

in the silent vapor of my breath
gossamer snow fell between the pines

2008-10-09T05:36:00.000-07:00

A strange rubber ball appeared out of the nothingness.
"Put yourself in the ball," a voice said.
I did as it asked, "Allright?"
"Now, throw it!" the voice replied.

2008-10-01T11:16:00.001-07:00

tool becomes enemy
clay soldiers march

leaflets of propaganda

drape the dead city

2008-10-01T11:14:00.000-07:00

the chemotherapy that kills cities is itself a cancer

momentary embalming

2008-10-01T11:13:00.000-07:00

the time between shots
is full of tremors

fixation

2008-09-28T20:56:00.000-07:00

this canon is only broken in one direction

2008-09-28T19:33:00.001-07:00

on opposite day
all we desire
gets pushed away

two bites

2008-09-26T01:21:00.000-07:00

pulling back the gauze,
"that's gonna leave a scar", she says.

2008-09-24T22:45:00.001-07:00

the pulse of life
that throbs in my throat
makes it easy to choke

2008-09-24T03:26:00.001-07:00

I'll take this love potion
on the rocks

2008-09-19T01:52:00.003-07:00

in these weeks of pain
the tight curves of her body [now lost]
were my only refuge

2008-09-19T01:52:00.002-07:00

I bury myself in you.
I drop the shovel
lay down by the headstone.

2008-09-19T01:52:00.001-07:00

brilliant light
casts a darker shadow

2008-09-19T01:52:00.000-07:00

writing good
makes writing bad

LHC

2008-09-17T20:17:00.007-07:00

scientists were horrified
at the creation of tiny black holes
until they discovered they could be tapped
as a source of limitless energy

2008-09-17T20:17:00.006-07:00

I choke at her lips
my throat is corrupt
from inhaling blood

2008-09-17T20:17:00.005-07:00

the wild horse
will not fuck
the scarred boar

2008-09-17T20:17:00.004-07:00

Can it hurt to tell the truth?
Hanging blackness and voices in the light-sockets say it will.

2008-09-17T20:17:00.003-07:00

the child’s mind splits
into high and low
big and little

and eventually forgets
the uniform blur
where the heart formed

2008-09-17T20:17:00.001-07:00

vampires are normal people
with black holes in their chest

two hangovers

2008-09-17T12:04:00.001-07:00

a bottle of wine,
a day of longing

crush

2008-09-12T12:41:00.001-07:00

my stone heart burdens you
[weight without light]
a good place for a bad idea
[coming over you like a cloud]

graffiti on a stone wall

2008-09-08T13:00:00.000-07:00

'keep looking'

sandbox

2008-09-07T01:55:00.000-07:00

I want to play in the dirt
I bury my face in the sand
We both gasp for breath

2008-09-06T11:16:00.001-07:00

ragged clothes
torn by dogs
knots of twisting fabric
unraveled

random sayings from the mothership

2008-09-06T10:31:00.001-07:00

*walls give us something to lean on.
*it’s dark inside the monkey’s paw.
*work without play is slavery.
*the marionettes of our ancestors still dance beautifully.
*without sunglasses, I walk in the shade.

2008-09-05T19:53:00.001-07:00

lost the clouds
that cross the moon

only white
if we notice

2008-09-05T19:30:00.000-07:00

the dark box
sealed by two
is opened by one

orbiting saturn

2008-09-05T18:48:00.000-07:00

beneath its frozen surface
maybe buried oceans
will contain life

september

2008-09-04T01:04:00.000-07:00

I miss horribly
the girl that never was
and count the moments
it takes for her never to return

black box

2008-09-03T22:39:00.000-07:00

against the chalk white walls
it waits

full of cancer
and apple blossoms

2008-09-02T11:49:00.001-07:00

after a long day full of work
I walked past a lot, vacant and overgrown
full of tall grass and wildflowers

my mop and broom are useless here

2008-09-02T11:46:00.000-07:00

I've decided to break up with myself
it's not working out
and I'd like to see other people

birthday

2008-09-01T22:21:00.000-07:00

the candles are lit
and then blown out
in between the breath
and sometimes kindness

old songs

2008-08-28T22:28:00.000-07:00

I've never heard a song before
or had a kiss or first step

I choke on the blocks
of this erupting world

2008-08-28T21:31:00.000-07:00

to distracted to notice
a dark song of bloodletting
a leech with two mouths
one for excretion
and the other for clinging

"don't be evil."

2008-08-28T19:51:00.000-07:00

my other page has been splattered with the semen of capitalist greed-monkeys.
this is a space without, "Catch a Crook, Get a Hot Ringtone" or "Free Mascara, ask me how!"