LIGHT IS EVERYWHERE

A lumbering fear resonates under the collar bone, something like a burr.

ON THE HUNT

I know I’m being followed.

WHISPERING AND PULLING

I know she’s there, next to my shoulder.

WAYWARD THINKING

Stinging thoughts converge and take aim.

SPIRITUALLY TRAVERSING

Sun-rays interspersing.

DETRIMENTAL CLAW

Smeared and rolled over, thoroughly obliterated and torn.

SOUL SORROW

Soul sorrow brandishes her, dispossesses and stuns her.

BURNT AIR

Burnt air tastes of ash and smoke. Specks of lined paper rise up on a sweeping current into the sky.

LETTING GO

I blink, want to shutter my eyes, not sure what elseTo say. No words penetrate my mind. I’m uncomfortable.I need to let you go, but you refuse to release your grip,So I remain. Tender loss perambulates, quickens my heart,Entrenches me in grief as if you died, but you sit before me.You demand something, a splint […]

I REMEMBER

I remember the heat of him as he’d push up against me, gin-fouled and smelling of Camel Wides.