blue and afar in the morning

Presence and Absence Coincide in Song

 

as if to speak

“bring something sweet”

for you to crush beneath your heel

as if in searching I could find

Your Face

in every long draught

I can speak as

can you see –

but to breath is

full as I can be

Watrous Valmora

Draught. n. The drawing of liquid into the mouth or down the throat; an act of drinking, a drink; the quantity of drink swallowed at one ‘pull’.

Rising With the Dishes

 

 

 

snow-blind (in summer!)

and dulled by desire

I, forged, forgotten, fogged

A Sense of Shipwreck

 

 

As your breath above mine

My mouth tastes like raw egg yolk and the soap I try to wash my hands with has been sitting in its own juices for so long that it comes apart in my hands, oozing. I feel like that soap. So saturated as to have changed my chemical state.

Recipe: 1. Write tangled poetry 2. Watch one David Lynch Movie per day 3. Be patient

All in a Day’s Work

 

They will tell you these things as you carry their flesh ( beneath lintels, atop mossy paths, over lines )