Humanity: Raw & Unfiltered
We met in Paris many years ago now Right away she befriended me, I’m not sure how. Twelve years difference, but I felt I knew her. Where she came from I couldn’t at first be sure. I overheard her say to a student, “Je suis belge,” And I was mystified, Read more
Adios (sung on tremolo) Evelyn – Why are you not A sun-carved shape Predictable as a Windowless stone I could hug you into my Bones Even if your hair might lure with serpents I could kiss your feet for the longest minute Relish without a second of hesitation Print me Read more
My hand aches forging a kinship with my heart and my head, side effects of sleepless nights and too many poems. My words render no verdict, reduced to scrawled symbols inadequate of expressing the affliction of my affection for you. The rhetoric betrays me— fractured, a breakdown. So I crumble Read more
When you weren’t looking, I slipped a piece of my heart, its left ventricle, into your suitcase. This chamber pumps blood throughout the entire body. Mine, yours, ours. Waiting for a transplant, Stan Larkin lived 555 days with no heart at all. Carried artificial organ’s power source inside a gray Read more
Truly yours with no Resistance, Time to tell the Classic Tale, Twelve not Seven, History echoed, I am a serial lover with a Heart. Fearfully tangled in the Phantom web, From nowhere Lies came to Life, Forsaken by Thee, History echoed, I am a serial lover with a Mind. Curiously Read more
A mistress at thirteen. Shocking for you – now. Not so for me – then. Juliet was only thirteen when she met, fell in love, and all too hastily, married Romeo. Perhaps that’s where life and art merge? The cloudy yet wholesome translucency of writing from experience. It isn’t a Read more
I woke with your name still in my mouth I swore I could feel your softsweet breath still on my neck my whole body a prayer bowl ringing my trembling heart still sounding in my ears hearing you asking me to jump to let myself fall with you into candescent Read more
