Reach

Laden with their kindled intimacy,
Our hearts are ravenous bedmates.
Distance - trees, water, air...
(awful, beautiful walls) -
The clarity of our journey sears
severs as a merciless knife.

Oh, but our hearts are wrought with yearning, so,
For our …

Distance; Untitled

I.

I try to conjure your touch
in the stillness of sleep
as hours of yearning finally -
only -
grant a mere representation,
and touch as real as vapor.
And my heart fractures
at the drawbacks of mere …

Bridge

Dreaming slips beneath the skin
saturating this taut skin, this tender heart.
And I'm shocked by the urgency of my hunger,
the sharpened ache to roam the soft surface of your skin
to even just
flicker
over palpable, petal-soft lips
renders mine to part in …

Fractures: Yours, Mine.

This heart crumbles under fleeting monogamies
And I, clumsy and paper-pale,
Hold no ground to stand on, no
coaxing enclosing fire
for your coin-cold glances.
I crumple, folding in -
Heart ill with hope's tiny ruptures.
With such smooth, gliding grace do you …

Letter

My joy pours through my fingertips,
splashing my reckless adoration
across pages
like milk,
Until I am left,
breathless as stars,
letting the
wholeness,
the fierce fragility of these feelings
rest,
sinking sweetly into skin.

The silence
between, until - …

Pondering Prescription.

It is expected, normal, even, that friends are commonly treated as prescription drugs.  Feeling down?  Two coffee-lunch doses of Friend A.  Philosophical?  Call Friend B bi-weekly.  And so on and so forth.  Is this rarity of the wholly well-rounded tell-all …

Familial Familiarities

The tapestry of moments we share with those around us forever influences how we're perceived, and though we may suspect certain perceptions held by others is unchangeable, it takes but a single moment to alter everything - for better or worse.

It reminds me of the …

Preservation's Latch

Where do we learn our instinct for self-preservation, outside of simple experience? I'm speaking emotionally, mainly, as opposed to basic physical survival.

Some of us are so gun-shy of exposing ourselves to others in a vulnerable manner that we seem shut-off or …

Hierarchical Havoc!

Has anybody found it ironic that though everybody is technically free - truly we are the only ones who control our own movements and thoughts - we willingly allow ourselves to be placed under the proverbial shackles and bondage of so many others for the sake of an …

Percussive Force

We are hallmarked for what we choose to dedicate ourselves to. Our actions, our feelings - both over a period of years and over a period of a minute, depending on the action, our lives and the depths of our character are defined throughout. We can perceive a man …

Atom Atomics.

Aspirations. We aspire to improve, to gain, to essentially become more than what we are. We want better jobs, more influence, more power, more love, money - always, more.

Regardless of minimalist standards, this is not a bad thing.

However, to be found capable …

Nostalgia Suicides

Many of us are seized, at one point or another, with various forms of nostalgia. The degree to which we succumb to it is dependent on the memory vs. our situation in the present. Wistful daydreams, flights of fancy about when we were children and things were good. …

Self-Stranger

Individualism. Honesty. Integrity. Authenticism. Genuine.

These are phrases that have been used to describe the leaders, the revolutionaries and pioneers of our everyday life - both in the present and times long past. However, why do these things not apply to the …

Scant Trees

Our distance under sheets -
an ocean the length of
an inch,
as mere
air
and..
down..
become stone walls
that these small hands
(tiny fingers and toes)
cannot press against,
cannot breach.
Back facing me -
a sleeping stone sentinel.
Your embrace is a …

Rubbernecking Rubberband

"You were meant for so much more than this.."

A song lyric, perhaps, or the words of a concerned friend, or the whispers from a brood of vipers.. I've had the backhanded pleasure of experiencing it from all three - though discerning between the middle and the latter …