Clammy Poems

Naive Faith

...
Claustrophobic, saturated white walls constrict,
sucking the oxygen from every molecule of deprived blood.
Hypoxic cells circulate through an increasingly unstable body,
whilst rivulets of sweat...

The Start of a New Poem

...It is a night creamed by melting darkness.
Fireflies are obsessed with secrecy tonight
And dim their lights cautiously, frugally.
Crickets and cicadas crepitate with muted
Feelings, sallying wret...

Florence

...Florence has warm blood
and cowrie teeth that seldom clatter,
even in the chilled, fluttering dance of July rain.

She’s an element of Shiloh
in weeping quest of a promising Samuel,
and for thi...

Body Possession

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Twisted and taunted,
I stood in the wintry path where
sparkling silver slivers of mercury
searched for their brethren
to merge as one.
Colder than my path, a clammy cold
from the nitrous nigh...

Sumner Shower

...How fresh the shower a man takes at dawn
Daylight already so hot and intense
But switching to ‘Cool’ shall stifle a yawn
And shampoo lasts ages… on hair not dense

A towel that is dry so patient...

Sculpted by silence

...My days were filled with limp lifts of your hands,
  each a tear steeped in lost compassion.
You made me swim in a cold, clammy sea of sorrow~
and shaped me into a voiceless, motionless
s c u l p...

This Reality We've Made

...Breaking night is just another habit now 
we in a whole different dimension somehow
glidin through the cloudy haze
Givin a whole new definition to Dazed
Tryna find a way out, but so stuck in our ...

Oreo

...The night before my father’s heart attack,
my brother and I were splayed across a bed
watching a re-run of “Happy Days”
and eating Oreo cookies.

My father sat stiff and upright
in a wooden cha...

Mumbled Memories

...The dimming of cinnamon gold sequined skies and amber hues  
Illuminates her strawberry strands just as we  
Inhaled the salt seasoned air.  

Sand tickled our feet,  
A breeze brushed against m...

BLACK AUDI PARKED REMIND ME OF ALICIA HILTON MY ABUSIVE HUSBAND STRIPPER

...THE LAST TIME I SAW A BLACK AUDI IT CUT US OFF PARKED THE SMELL OF DEATH WAS BREWING FUNNY HOW MANY TIMES I SCREAMED HELP SOMEONE IS GOING TO HURT MY CHILDREN AND I SO HAPPY TO GET SECTION 8 MOVE INT...

Frizzled Huitain

...Drizzle and frizzled hair crinkles,
such sounds demand a symphony;
Clammy cold showered with sprinkles 
there’s a vibe that says ‘Be easy.’
Stock up the wood burning fire place,
it’s raining I’l...

Sacrificial Lamb

...Streaks of pallid moonlight  
wash over blood-stained  
burnt umber leaf blight.  
Glistening stainless steel remains  
within wilting noir roses  
and blistered blades of grass.  
Sickening ha...

The Remains of the Day

...There lies the remains of the day
stiff and clammy cold, in rigor mortis.
Did it die of its own accord?
Is the killer still at large?
Did it die accidentally when no one cared?
What were you and...

hot days

...when it gets dark
it remains humid and warm
the stars are obscured
by a heavy haze
the trees are so still
as if two-dimensional
a thick silence
broken only by boy racers
revving up Willett Wa...

Moonlight on Meadows

...The meadow lay dark, dank, hushed, cold and clammy.
Nothing dared to move, 
to break the soliloquent solitude.
Time stood still, adjourned, awaiting a warp to lift the lag.
Then, the moon peeped ...

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