return;
so many months have passed since i've washed up on these digital shores. mea culpa. i have returned. i am ready to apply overwhelming force to my love of writing.
please, forgive me for my hiatus, but i am here now. refreshed and ready to spill into yr head. let us continue this journey together.
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Depreciation
i.
Snow is a bizarre phenomenon,
what else material is such finite
crystal.
A unique beauty, trapped in identical mundane
destined to be a permanent worthless—
trapped in-between the feathers of singers.
A transversion in between the living and the dead, the skylarks—
the water self-suffocates in an attempt to embark.
(she holds him close, but not close enough.
But that isn’t why he is no longer there.)
ii.
I sometimes ponder
the meaning
of the vain.
But the nourished always
comes back burnt
regardless.
iii.
When i first met her
the only thing i knew was that
her skin felt the way love hurt.
Was a silk cottonsong.
I wish
so desperately that i could dig up,
from the rainbow-breath’d
who, in his temper,
guarded the dogwood
so tightly— it cracked.
And died.
iv.
They always whispered
that the better place
was the one after this.
Whenever we were still
crying n’ hyperventilating.
I wonder where snowflakes go
after their better half
passes.
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Medicine
You’ll take care of me, that’s what you said,
bandages on my body all over
warmth when I’m cold.
I’ll tell you every thought in my head, you’ll smile
tell me to focus on other things, the real things,
& give me my medicine.
Each day the dose gets stronger,
I’ll tell you I’m building up an endurance,
when, really, I’m just waiting patiently.
The nights are cold, shivering, blood feeling empty,
you’ll tell me that makes no sense, that it’s
just paper, just a story or fairytale I tell myself.
The summer heat is going to finish me before this does,
I swear, I can’t think, the boiling of it all
the atoms that make me are evaporating.
Drenched in water, I try to collect as much air as I can
desperately trapping it in the palm of my hands
before it has the chance to run away and escape.
Building up, slowly, rising like the stars,
each day I tell you that I’m waiting,
but you won’t believe that it could go that far.
The jumping back and forth, the sharp contrast
it cuts my skin, but nothing leaks out.
Instead of a tender heart softly beating,
you already took care of that instead.
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Steady
Two lines that are parallel,
always nearby one another,
but never touch.
Two lines that are perpendicular,
touch one another once,
but never see each other again.
I think about that as I lay on yr chest,
a heart wrapped in ribcage against my ear,
It moves the way a train-on-track sounds—
the thick metal beast ready &
connecting the two rails together,
steady.
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Séance
They called the captain back to his ship.
Reckless storm could hold a tirade against him—
hoisted upon the members, his brow sterns & furrows.
I shriek ‘do not let him go,
he is a bitter man
the sea has taken all he has.’
but they cannot hear.
Every dove synchronous with the ocean.
& at bay does the sand circle, 'round and 'round,
doomed destinies marked
i can no longer tell the difference between the ink and the message.
But they called the captain back to his ship.
It was a broken promise else be fair.
Hearts made crimson only by the sunset
bleak’d whiskey, otherwise.
His lover was a quarrel, in quarantine,
masquerade as something painted in pink—
i no longer can tell by map
where you can drown
& where you can breathe.
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Milk Teeth
Innumerable in strength,
the last bastion of any sort of
sense being made here.
The world is on fire,
but at least the walking wall of words
can be made and sustained
with yr beautiful teeth.
Let me count the ways
before I forget how to count accordingly
The heartbeats beating like kettledrums,
the sycamore that was planted decades ago
finally large enough for us both to sit underneath of.
The clock makes less & less sense. I think
I can’t find the calendar,
but the days are nights
So what does it matter? As long
as I can keep this beautiful
walking wall of words
But then, they finally told me the truth
that I can’t speak anymore, that
I don’t have a voice.
If you bite hard enough,
yr teeth will break.
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Non-binary
They
say there are two sides to every coin,
but I am more inclined to be
interested
in the rimmed & misaligned edges.
The fringes of much smaller spaces
where the outcasts and never-mentions
reside.
Where the exhausted outsiders resign—
any hope of recognition from the
greater mass,
any hope of ceasing their indignation
with this catatonic Earth & people.
Make their cacophony a symphony,
make their stutter,
their stutter,
their stutter a melody,
make their spirt a Holy effigy.
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Hatred, or Some Stars
The faces in the glaciers are crying across
the docks. Shufflin’ the speakers as i walk
the lines forty past fifty in the evening’s clock.
I was given the chance to breathe—
i held my eyes tight tho, stopped seeing.
I know the blackbirds’ll make fun of me.
& before i knew the pulse
there was the milk pouring from the sky
and hallelujah, our lungs were no longer dry.
Yr lungs were no longer dry.
Before yr chest became a petal-painted pretty lie,
where you stood there but did not ask why.
Why, oh why, do i have to die?
Answer the populous of the populations
the cynics of emasculations
the petulants across procreation
the hoarders in touch with destruction
the crying princes clutching expired nations
the skeletal corpse of yesterday’s destination
the magnanimity of the constellations.
We all point south,
& we melt & we melt & we melt.
No blacked out blurs or unintentional international
firearms or firecrackers
eating off the faces of millions benevolent child & canine.
Broken off deadbeat stars.
Forgotten branches
of a larger tree.
& how my veins demonstrate
the path i’ve taken.
& how i hate most everything
and am disappointed in all else.
& how i fantasize of leaving
it all to fingerpaint a new skyscape.
Without broken bones
without the crimson hatred
without the soft, empty skin.
But just as the sun
invariably rises
you know
i’ll come back,
just flash me the eyes
that you want me too.
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Looking Above
I cannot help but feel as though
I should try to protest
whenever I look above to it all.
The sky is so fiercely large–
the gaping maw of an unknowable beast
always looking down at me.
How dare she?
I know I’m meant to never feel
so small, so unimportant,
so expendable to her.
The rain falls, its friction on skin
clinging as a reminder,
making everything feel so heavy.
Nothing is more cold than the breeze
that manages to lift papers away
red balloons that migrate elsewhere.
The satellites that slowly glide above,
metal angelic, floating effortlessly.
Secretly not actually moving at all.
All within the jaws of this infinite blue field
I cannot look away,
I cannot escape her.
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Length, Calculated
Open yr eyes like a camera lens,
assign vivid colours their formula.
Where the mathematics meet all depends
on physics delicately.
The calculus of love cannot stop time—
carve out the last pages carefully.
Ink used like a surgeon’s scalpel,
the artist with a canvas of skin.
Meticulously drawn out like the final
words of a novel you don’t want to
end.
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Space, a Definition
i. The distance between you & me.
ii. The separation used in between words.
iii. The darkness that fills the gaps of stars.
Those are all pretty much the same thing.
Hollowness. The lack of something. An emotional zero.
We don’t use it to its full potential.
Somebody who didn’t speak English and wanted to articulate the most
authentic of heartbreak— would say they felt spaced.
Not empty, not nothing, just
missing.
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Off by One
There is nothing more terrifying
than the wonders of all existence
hinging on the perfect automata
that yr cells decide to perform.
The delicate lungs, artfully crafted
like red featherbeds covered in rose petals.
At any moment, the wind could pick up,
and it could all float away.
The kettle-drum that marches on in yr center,
a rhythm too fast, a genre of tachycardia.
It worries you, everything worries you,
and the beat just merely becomes faster.
At any moment in time, this could all
come to an unannounced end,
simply because there was a small error
within the hundredfold complexity
of yr physiology.
Off by one. Fade to black.
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Light
You lit up my sky when it was darkest,
but you slipped into emotional coma.
Midnight always has a silent carnage,
for when stars die, they become supernovae.
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Opus, Magnum
Every day we inch closer towards the supermassive
black hole that gives us
stability. (control)
& will one day
invariably
consume us.
& they will grab you; as we dance
holding you tightly— with their aged hands
(wine) made up of the hips and crotch
of fireflies.
They will drag you by yr knees (skull)
bringing you to yr birthdays.
Like the fractal patterns, the wallpapers of yr womb
bed, so long ago.
The blackbirds will recognize
the musk scent of yr hair—
the magnetic fireworks
the mustard gas & flower tombs.
Gentle— gently rest, child.
Drink the soothing milk (baby)
crafted from the cattle or lakes.
Connected to the oceans, composed of sadness,
where they drag you, now.
Where they play elevenths on detuned toy pianos.
Where the schoolbells ring only at midnight.
Where the fields grow when death stops his carriage
waiting for their frostbitten faces to blonde.
Where the harmonicas force winds to settle.
Where the volcanic ash arises from an infant phoenix.
Where the kisses from the broken necks of officers mend.
Where the freedomfighters from seven generations of freedom are jailed.
Where true love of teenaged plight goes to cry, for a while.
Where they drag you, now.
(candles) stammering towards the lens.
Do only one thing for me,
& promise me this all isn’t a dream
or meaningless reflections of parallels.
Promise me a less harsh divorce,
find yrself and tell me who they are.
Whisper coffee or dreams out into untouched
white sheets.
Because every day we inch closer towards the supermassive
monster that gives us relevance.
Plead with me, listen to her echoes.
—we will one day become history.
& the distant Kettering of Amerika will be forgotten.
Plead with me, listen to her stuttering,
& do not tease or bully her,
for not knowing the routine, or fragments.
The universe is too young to handle it.
& do not fall in love with her,
for not knowing her routine will cause
improper heartbreak, never mending.
Because we will, invariably, always dance
inside her winter,
where the dust is blind. (prologue)
because we will never know the breath
insider her,
where the patterns collide,
& crash,
& burn.
& never forget the scripture.
That the failure
is merely debris
of an otherwise perfect
human
consciousness.
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The Usual Diary Entry
Dear diary, you are completely worthless.
For the past fifteen years I’ve filled yr pages
I’ve hurt my hand trying to describe
Each & every joy & trauma to you.
In intricate detail.
These endless notebooks that compromise yr soul,
Yellowed paper, faded graphite, bleeding ink
A lifetime of stories, of people, of places
All of which don’t matter.
Or rather, will be forgotten.
In spite of my best efforts throughout the years,
Why didn’t you just tell me?
Why didn’t you just say to me, this was all for naught?
I wouldn’t have tried so hard, for so long.
An obsession with good stationery,
A taste for the right journals & pens.
So beautiful, yet filled with something
That’s so utterly empty, right?
For every day I mark off, for every memory
Transplanted into yr heart, into a place
That I pretended cared for any of this.
The good habits I tried to form with you,
Every emotional mood I tried to make sense of.
Dear diary, I’m hopelessly in love with you,
no matter how futile, no matter how worthless I am
I can’t help but feel that sickening sweetness
Confiding every dark secret to you,
Whispering the horrors from the darkness in my mind.
Nothing good will come from this,
But I don’t think I really mind.
I’ll still write to you every day.
Until my hand breaks, or my mind,
Whichever comes first.
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Blonde Death
Time eases the earth underneath yr feet,
slowly drawing him—the way it ties her.
Time makes us grow wiser—except
when you shoot angels dead to the ground,
when you start to bleed the way music sounds,
when you forget how to lose what you once found,
when you try to walk away & yr still homebound,
when you grow older with the midnight air & drown.
Appreciate the Earth—
grow grey hair, and then yr gone.
Sometimes—I think—
it’s better to go blonde.
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Who has seen the wind?
I called the lasting of suppers—
priests who became architects.
Etching beauty out from stretch marks
that came from the annihilated womb.
That became depths in-between crevasses;
yr body swerving into formless canyon.
Sing out to the birds, now— they’ll go
deaf, in a while.
From shattered snakeskins & eulogies
based in hypocrisy. We’ll
rise, & shiver.
Lasting silver tongues & apologies.
Because i know from Mary’s prayer that
when the sun goes down, yr ears
will be filled by mother’s touch
by the end of the day.
And the dying will favour the crimson,
over the grey.
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