Lightning

Lightning planted
across the skies -
still eyes
and the visible current 
of blood -

truth be told
I don't shake anymore -
my trembling from the thunder
is a frozen feeling -
an ice spear
that shreds my insides.

Sometimes, within me,
a shrub matures -
green and frail yet full, so full -

I present it 
an easy death -

uprooting the wreath
with all my might -

I leave it a shorn stem,
a beckoning stem -
lightning like?

In a Dream We Dwell

In a dream we dwell -
memories swell
up the bubble.

A million shells on the shore -
and night quells
their existence.

The double meanings -
this rubble down the road -
slumber and numbers -

the tolling bell -
the rolling shell -
how night quells,
existence?

Church

The womb,
a sad church -
harmony of darkness
and soundlessness.

Intrusion, worship;
the darkness being
looked at.

Bent knees -
they soar to a cloud of pain.

Asking.
In whispers.

One last look
at the light 
through the stains -

and they're gone.

Not Anymore

There isn't time
corking the bottle anymore -
the soul has fled -
fled away from the fragility
of trances ...
from the deadness, life?

Unforgettably

His voice is the smell
of roses I have
never touched.

Clutching the seconds -
a skiing in snow,
he races across me ...
unforgettably.

I trace these wrinkles
and taste an intimacy
between us.

We are, we are -
in a timeless moment,
the meaning, the meaninglessness;
the mirth of the earth
when upon it a star,
falls.

Seize Me

Seismic, the sorrow -
seize me, my horrors
at war with dreams.

What do you see -
up there, there's no seeking it.
Seize the sunken,

Me.

They cut me here -
stop me short, as I,
see... see through the morrow
that I was promised.

Seize me tonight,
a fool, the seeker, me -
meek, bleak, toad's creek -
a pool of torchlight 
under a tree.

Comet

Noon and heat -
white brightness, I bleed -
a little thought 
slipping from my hair -
I sweat you,
a comet.

Down,
down into the heart of blackness -
you die a dot -
a little thought,
slipping down the leash -
sweat, comet, love, memory.

You,
having lit the charred walls
of the Universe,
die.