Awkward as an angel who bears the burden of black beauty she turns, unaware of the emptiness that swirls around her lost legs Legs on which balance the twin curses of comfort and congeniality She is a solitary saint in a universe of undistinguished souls She is shy and unsure of her shineContinue reading “Awkward as an Angel”
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So Like Gravity
Why should I have all the fun? Such joy shines out from beauty Bright enough to blind a man Without the sense to shade his heart That feeling, so like gravity, lets me know at any time your place and tells me every tale of you that nobody else hears Not even you It keepsContinue reading “So Like Gravity”
We Too
We too lie in drifts at your feet with folds in our skin deep enough to swallow lifetimes of loose memories Thoughts that are best left unexpressed pressed between our furrows We too float even as we weep carried by air and water and dreams across the fierce boundaries that are guarded by the ghostsContinue reading “We Too”
The Goddess of the River
The goddess of the river speaks in a language I don’t understand so she finds another way to make her meaning known She speaks of all the life she knows hidden deep beneath her rippling sparkling surface Fishes and plants of course but also microscopic universes where time moves at a different pace and everyContinue reading “The Goddess of the River”
Look up
Look up There is nothing worth seeing down here You have seen it all before and each time you see it the dullness gets deeper until it engulfs every bright spark Look up Where all remaining lights still shine Where the air is clean and clear and fresh Where dreams rise up like wondrous balloonsContinue reading “Look up”
