Marrow and Vein

In these bones you’ll stay marrow and vein Because, there’s misery in these molecules and they ache each shiver and strain to satiate the ravenous need to reach yours Passion bread from a pit of desperation Grasping, returning you to my gaze Pulling, returning you into my orbit Stay.

Discover & Conquer

Resort to recycling my muse for chemistry that burns beyond the lines of the page Love me harder than my loathing Need to hear the words strangled and caught in your throat wild-eyed and wanting The frenzy of discovery and conquering Be the ruin of me, glady A noose created in sheets of these dark […]

Maps

Following the maps long written in my head Through awkward phases and troubled youth Sinking ships with former loves houses built on sand ________ Come to me in whispers with fingers entwined secrets shared and kept in pillow sheets. Connecting dots porcelain constellations painted on flesh ________ We’ve come so far now I can see […]

A Delicate Midnight

Places in my mind I routinely go bathed in nerves and moonlight my breath held in midnight exchanges ________ Can I keep you? concealed in a song a moment solidified wide eyed and wanting like a photograph, framed a memento of lost youth ________ Can I keep you? under that full moon despite the moment […]

Sideways

I’ve never seen this side of you sideways from this angle you appear aglow and unbridled ________ No longer a person but a defined destination sideways whispers stirring and unabridged ________ Through shadows and moonbeams your gaze never fails me I’ve never seen such color telling and unclouded ________ Your hand meets my waist through […]

Behind Closed Lips

There, the music absorbing into my frame and it’s starting to swell ________ It’s there there, on the tip of my tongue and it’s starting to spill ________ There’s a weight in the accuracy of the fantasy and it’s starting to multiply ________ There, now magnified the secrets echoed behind closed lips and it’s starting […]

Wicked & Reckless

The image burned to black hungry and dark he eyes me like a shark _____ My breath choked Brazen lips trace my clavicle and linger at my throat _____ Something wild stirs something wicked and reckless grows here _____ An intimate grace feasts a ravenous destruction

Quixotic Notions

No longer bound by clandestine worship you were a love lived aloud, unafraid ________ You taught the writer the meaning of quixotic you became lines of a song, and tender phrases ________ Sheer vulnerable embrace beckoned forth, a sea of change Where earth and sea collide a love imagined and then defined *Photo by Moises […]

To The Girls Who Aren’t The Easy Choice

“Two roads diverged in a wood, and I- I took the one less traveled by, And that has made all the difference.” -Robert Frost This isn’t about two paths diverging in a yellow wood, well, maybe. I am the path less traveled, the path with the most risk. My path is shrouded in shadow, […]

Continued Pursuit

Sexy, gorgeous, haunting- taunt me just to lie awake in vain with lips like sugar and words like venom ________ A heart darkening with passion pulse and panic like slow suicide of flesh and stardust ________ It’s all laid bare every deep, dark, happy thought ever in the continued pursuit of that which still eludes […]