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The Rain

...I f*cking love the rain.
Storms are even better. 
I love to hear of your canceled plans
As you stand there, getting wetter

 I adore the miserable faces it brings
To everyone but me
I ...

Navigator's Dream

...It’s got to be routinish, I presume
The sun was glinting on the captain's polished rudder
The banks of Avon, clenched in gorgeous summer bloom
Spread silence, with its permanent cicadas
We've rea...

The Key

...

As dreams fall away,
Leaving the softest memories,
Delicate as the newborn babe,
Who lights the soul with his smile,
And, lets the joy seep through the nights.

As morning whispers its grac...

Tomorrow

...TOMORROW

Tomorrow keeps on
Lifting her delicate hand
And flipping back strands of
Her colored, cherry-brown hair,
Which hang alonside her neck…
     Grown long enough to just touch
         ...

No Reply

...NO REPLY

Thoughtful Jazz

...THOUGHTFUL JAZZ

Here I am, floating in a melodic mist
As if notes descend just to be kissed
Imagination’s gates are now wide open
And waiting expectantly for inspiration
A lone muted trumpet s...

Crooked Tree

...Crooked Tree, there’s so much of you in me.
I whisper to the wind my confession.
This heart of mine is quite GRIM and GLOOMY.
Of FEELINGS; not one goes without question.

WISTFUL; I reach beyond...

Overseas Visitor

...I sat alone by the sea
when a snail waved to me.
She politely asked “Is this seat free?”
“Why yes,” I said, “ certainly.”

“I've traveled forth all lifelong
seeking somewhere to belong.
I've s...

Coffee Is Important

...My roommates are all up and about. It’s finals week and everyone is hustling about.
Lisa came in from an early exam, it was snowing lightly, she looked right at home.
“How’d it go?” I quizzed.
“E-...

Etty Kett

...Who the hell is Etty Ket
To keep interfering in my life?
I keep hearing its not Etty Ket
From my very soon to be wife.
I bet she was a Victorian
With a long pointy nose
Red flanellette bloomers...

Photograph 3: Rain

...Photograph 3: Rain

Dancing in the rain
umbrellas twirl, not a care
Chilly rain dampened hair
Clothes cling suggestively to the skin
Under dark skies, lightning flickers
Flashes, distant rumbl...

Photograph 1: Arclight

...the sodium arc light hums 
into the frosted night
Bathing all in acidic 
sickly amber that of a toxic wound, 
splashing through the skeletal trees 

the snow flies on invisible currents 
snow ...

Silent Spaces Sacred

...I'm noticing
you're not noticing
I'm starting to look for
what you've already heard
with anticipation
overpowering my internal anxious voice
with calm
and kind compassion

When Other disharm...

Under the Mystery

...The streets are vacant under the mystery rain gently falling as I gaze into the cold blue depth of a fluorescence-lit street

Languishing…

Under blaring lamps, the hardtop black flickers wet fro...

This Inferno of Silence

...We cast Long shadows into the past. 
They cover buried things of something vast.
They cover the bones of things better left unknown.

Optic vision fires flair and cracks at the revelations. 

I...

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