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  • Breath at allpoetry
    I am a breath, held in until the lungs burn and blackness creeps in, like the pits of Hell,
  • Genesis at allpoetry
    I I close my eyes, feel small against
  • Rhapsody Ecstacy at allpoetry
    The line of black umbrellas, a funeral procession of tight lips, of clicking heels against
  • Moving & Grooving at allpoetry
    Write a letter as I rock out to the mixed tape- each love song stilted and jaded,
  • Touched at allpoetry
    I’ll be with the pill bottles, the scalpels, the nooses- if you ever want to find me.
  • Twilight at allpoetry
    Twilight smiles at me, her pearly dentures sunk to the bottom of her water glass.
  • Pariah at allpoetry
    Condensation builds up on yearning lips. I lean in, to taste the color of your aura,
  • Lacuna at allpoetry
    Coal black eyes shift (like the headlights of a car breaking the sound barrier)
  • Requiem at allpoetry
    It’s a paper cut that kills her so/ where she hides all the secrets that you’ll never know/
  • Klaxon at allpoetry
    None of the notes are right, klaxon-redundant and boisterous as a tsunami eroding
  • Chemicals at allpoetry
    My chemicals are as faulty as bloodletting, or the wiring of a firefly,
  • Navel-Gazing (Hangman) at allpoetry
    You hold the stub of a one-way train ticket / between fingers that recently / fondled the lit cigarette. / You’ve put it out beneath your heel, / leaving a scorch-mark on the pavement, / but the smoke still c
  • Memorial at allpoetry
    The graphite lead is stuck / in your skin, broken off from when I tried / to draw your heart back on; / the soulless look in your coal-black eyes / says I failed, but at least / you’ll have something remem
  • Musically Inclined at allpoetry
    I live on this bridge of rhythmic / pulsations, split between / major and minor chords. / My heartstring is yearning towards your finger, / to be strummed in perfect harmony. / You are musically incli
  • God-breathed at allpoetry
    Passionately you arranged familiar atoms / into unfamiliar structures, / slinging ink with a quill fingertip / to inscribe your wonder upon / the universe, rolled / up like a scroll. / Creation trembles
  • Stowed at allpoetry
    She keeps his words stowed safely / in her pocket on a fraying string / Sometimes he adds to them, but she / only tucks them away again, until it / is time for them to be shown
  • Sanguinary at allpoetry
    I get the feeling something's missing, as / I resort to another duct-tape fix. Hide / a contusion behind another layer of blush, / but meanwhile / Nothing's changed (except the outside). / No amount of al
  • Icarus at allpoetry
    Waxen wings and sealing wax, sanguinary phrases / I once fondly harkened to. / There is an address to Timbuktu, if you / close your eyes and watch the colorful / dots swim through tar-field vision. / My waxen wings
  • Timbuktu at allpoetry
    Quillfingertips trace pensive thoughts, / trail a poetic glimpse reminiscent of / gray, fogged glasses / fail to glimpse the star burning / in the pitch black. / All is gray, 'til a quillfingertip / brushes t
  • Caffeine-induced Hallucination at allpoetry
    A caffeine induced hallucination, / that must be it. Three / hours of surveying the swirling / pattern in the wooden table, and I / spot the eye at last. It’s taken five / cups of coffee, drunk in sips once
  • Acerbic at allpoetry
    Hammerfists erase punctuation marks in favor of / acerbicrunons, / the static of bad reception adding a dulcet undertone to / to the screeching wheels of your getaway car. / Fingertips trace the tracks you left behin
  • Grandfather Clock at allpoetry
    I am held close to you, my skin / being rubbed raw by your granite surface, / trapped as though your statuesque limbs / were truly adhesive duct tape. / Your eyes are two flames set to burn / in a field of snow
  • Jesus-star at allpoetry
    The same can be said for you as for me- / originality has never existed, merely / different forms of the same ideas repeated / again and again, for the amusement / of the masses. But with twisting words / and decept
  • Impasse at allpoetry
    My breath fogs up the window like a moth-wing, / artificial lights interrupting the brief spiral of unrepentant joy. / This is the Autobahn, heavily trafficked by ideas / that never cease marching. There is plenty of st
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  • Pressing On at allpoetry
    The scrapbook is still on the table where you left it, / yellow pages fluttering in an idle breeze / smelling of fresh spring rain and salty tears. / In the memories pressed between these pages, / I am swin
  • Synchronization at allpoetry
    Synchronized, the pulsation / of hearts in time to / the swinging of the world. / It is a penduluum / swinging back and forth. / I will catch it, and / in a silver current of / words and wishes / freeze t
  • E'in Sof v. 2 at allpoetry
    It is 3 am and the black sky / overhead resembles a snake, / onyx coils poised to strike. I am / Cleopatra and these pearls will / prove my noose. E'in Sof. / No noose, these pearls. / A snake instead, swayi
  • Two-faced at allpoetry
    I am a Las Vegas lie, / oozing insincerity from / every pore. / The 3 am chatter filters / through the vents, the / smell of cigarettes in the air / mingling with laundry detergent. / The clothes han
  • E'in Sof [Infinite, Endless] at allpoetry
    It is 3 am and the black sky / overhead resembles a snake, / onyx coils pouised to strike. I am / Cleopatra and these pearls will / prove my noose. / A string of pearls, how queer / to see them dangling so.
  • Fluoxetine Sweetheart at allpoetry
    Here's one blue-and-white goodbye, / fluoxetine lullaby, I am sent to sleep by the / whispers of yours song, / "I love you, I love you, I love you.". / I love you with the fickle passion / of Romeo, "Oh my Juli
  • Amor Est Vitae Essentia at allpoetry
    There are holes burnt in me, / like a cigarette was pressed against / some flimsy fabric. That fabric is me. / Oh bleeding heart! You see, / I am only a representation of your voodoo rituals. / See? Here are the p
  • Unions at allpoetry
    [Hm...another piece I'm still not fully satisfied with...like grrrrrr...] / I am the onion peelings, lying unraveled on / your smooth, unblemished linoleum floor. / And here is my record, blank except for your ma
  • Fascist v. 2.0 at allpoetry
    I am in line to be gassed. With muted voice, / the resident fascists converse on such matters / as Aryans and imprisoning yellow stars. The / same yellow start that has so often spelled / out my doom. I am ensared in
  • Fascist at allpoetry
    I am in the line to be gassed. With muted voices / the Fascists talk of things beyond my understanding. / The sky will fall, be it today or tomorrow / and we will all be swallowed. But no, I am / regarded as a madwoma