La Croix Rouge

She’ll never realize her importance to me I’ll never have the courage to right the wrongs A life will be wasted and a heart will live in delusion The tired shadows are restrained upright Posed into semi-factual memory positions The heart weeps, uncomforted by the display The wasted life walks...

Curiosity

It must have been twenty years ago The chariots of Bacchus roared through the streets I had seen the horses rise above the revelers Half submerged like some rotting pieces of wood She slept the living death beneath her sheets I sat beside the window warm and curious The parades and festival swirling in the...

Sea Salt

Far away at the bottom of the sea Tiny little bubbles slipping away We made our home in the old sea torn barrel While the fish and the white time passed us by From shell to shell we hopped Outgrowing, sleeping around Then we found that the old sea torn barrel Was still anchored into the corral floor We...

Thirteen Shapes – Part 7

Across the busy fountain court yard square That tarot reader’s ship had docked White knuckle hands halfway clasped Hovering over cards left undealt Snapshot memory attempting to capture this scene The serial killer who stalks his victim prior to the crime So the after feels more real because of the...

Thirteen Shapes – Part 6

Sitting on a the edge of a fountain with a burning boredom My daydreams became filled with fire ‘These simple honeybees could never be like me’ Scenarios were played out from inception to a final solution Through various ‘what ifs’ and possible problems Manipulations and compensations...