beneath the cindering sky
a storm surge pummels

and plumes
onto broken grey stones

waves
in black rages

rip away the skin
of the day

you are shattered
and dragged further

and further from the strand
on a distance cliff

the lighthouse pitches flicks
and is finally lost

black chemical blood
sludges your veins

slowing your heart
fear feeds loneliness

ocean whole
you are swallowed

and sinking the darker down
breathe in the cold silence

peace
peace  
peace
  
be with you

A strange pattern for
writing has come
to me lately.
The skeletons of
poems form when I
lie down for a nap.
Sleep always calls,
and bones want to
dance and grow skin.
Lilacs bloom, and I feel
the inner thigh of
eternity, soft and wet.

I can't get any rest.
I have to jot down the
notes or they turn
to ashes and blow away,
or, they are buried deep in
mud and slumber,
impossible to dig up.

I sleep with a notebook and
pen, as I drift off,
I whisper to the tortured
bones,
don't cry and try not to worry.
I'll bring you to life.

tip toes to an imaginary line
drawn in the sand,
speaks in shadows,

tenderness, raw and sharp.

raised by wolves
she chews to the bone.

kiss the wind
my love is gone.

I fell in love with the North Woods
where snow and I dissolved
seeping in between the cobblestones
with belonging.
They held my secrets
and ancient history,
like forbidden sorcery
only the earth can practice.
I imagine my name whispered by velveteen moss,
stubbornly clinging
to old row house bricks with defiant faith.
But I'm just remnants of a ghost there,
my own heart haunted.
So I tried to love the ocean,
but she kept getting in her own way,
with her non-committal sway,
and everything that stayed
was tide-pool shallow.
I tried to love foreign lands,
wrap myself in different tongues -
Alpine lace was never warm enough.  
Exiled to the desert,
I floated like a feather,
fallen from a crow
who never learned that she could sing.
I've retreated to the mountains,
where the stone walls and I
have become kindred,
torn between the pulling chain
of a heart that longs to love
and no longer believes.

The man on the moon, you see
He has a few friends

He's perfect and broken
And is kind to no ends

I believe he is lonely
Floating gently in the sky

Even if you whisper him your secrets
He'll never tell you why

His pain is unmatched
Yet he's beautiful all the same

Even when he looks at perfect stars
He casts them no blame

And I find it comforting
Looking to him at night

For he taught me even in dark
There is a way to find some light

sea
sand
freedom