I believed I could mold it—that if I kept my voice measuredand my reasons alluring, debauched, persuasive,the wrong thing would come out clean.I drank the elixir that coronates a manwithout asking where his kingdom lies,a liquid that turned appetite into law.I mistook wantingfor knowing.Everyone stood silent while I triedto forge it into shape.I don’t live […]

The silly minutes rage by like a falling cuckoo clock. Dilapidated dreams are bent and burnt like autumn leaves. Fuck the cliches. Time hurts, like a gaping wound. Hold it close, and value every precious second. 1

They check the locksand install cameras,hoping to catch the crafty villainsthat plague their life like a mysterious virus. They call crying hysterical,say it happened again while they slept.Messed with. Nothing on the cameras.No evidence.But they’ve never been more sure.Hands on them.Footsteps in the middle of the nightthat don’t belong to the house.It’s a dark cultthat’s […]

 I met her and my mind ached.Blue eyes hiding, brown hair fallinglike a California mudslide.I wanted to bathe in heragainst my better judgment. We found our rhythm on that windowsill,the town sleeping beneath us,our bodies at one with the dark.Her tongue—a Beethoven symphony in G minor.My face glittered in the moonlightfrom the waltz with her […]

A long timeagowhen I wasa teenager,I had awonderful,tender-heartedgirlfriend.She was patient.I was wideawake, and greenas a frog. She said,don’t rub it sohard, you willhurt it.Think of it asa new toy youdiscovered.It’s small, andyou need to becareful.It isn’t apimple thatyou aretrying to pop. I can still smellher hair, lilacs, andpond water.And ongentle summernights, I hope someoneis being […]