platforms
the day i won the lottery in Heaven
i was given the choice of an afterlifetime supply
of anything at all that my heart desired.
i didn’t much need to think: i asked, of course,
for fire.
lucid loving
i’ve requested help from
all the world’s rivers, oceans,
& beaches
to supplement this terrible
sweetness, this shot-through
barrel swiftly losing liquid
through all this loving lucid
the wetness winding into a sigh
these spiralling circles of desire
how is it to be doused
but still unbearably on fire ?
make it constant
you are insanely divine, i can’t even explain
i feel safe around you. i just know
you’re special, & i adore you
damn beautiful
i’ll tell ya a little secret
a lot of things can be surprising, really
but being with you ?
it’s a victory.
the culprit
but even then, only just
a little death
for better or for worse
i hope that you have
the day you deserve
no through road
isabel…
after the movies, but before the train station,
we hugged goodbye. i said, see you, like i always do;
unthinking, she hummed i love you,
then gasped. the perfect casual accident.
we parted ways in blushing silence,
my shock too thick to shake. though
across percussive tracks, an engine chanted
what i couldn’t…
you too you too you too
all the way home, you too, you too.
sp4ce
Saturn, pull me into orbit
i am outer space already
touch me, watch me waterfall
drapery, the velvet curtain
puddle on the floor.
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Mr Gobbledygook
we had hung your portraits / right and left
in celebration / and after death
we sold them since / your music was no longer with us
your vinyls dusty / guitar lifeless
but five years later / walking through
an antique store / i spotted you
the painting could / in every way
be taken as / the very same
but Dad / this image was not you
scribbled eyes aflame and horns now fitted
and an extra set / of jet black tresses
O Father / your most final jest !
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i do think about it. i have desired—
uh, rewind—on & on, i have wondered,
bordering curious & perhaps perverse
about the cool midnight breeze
taking the shape of an invisible
lover, or maybe just a flurry of
translucent kisses…
maybe
proliferate / magnify capture ignite
more like this / or try / or try
i’d do it again / i’d listen / for / fire
mixing together / i think maybe
i’d like that !