Still-birth emotions laying on the snow.
If I let you smile, will sticky lips let go?
After-birth sensations, beaten under hail.
I want to **** the blood out of your gums.
I want to touch you until your body's stale.

Venus in the snow -- the more I taste you,
the more the echoes in our mouths slow.
Shake it, baby -- **** me like I just got out of a coma.
Nothing more that I want than to be your trauma.

And I just have to bury myself in your emotions.
And to drown in the swell of separate oceans.

Bile creeps. No warning.
Green tastes bitter. Never sweet.
Swallow it. Don't speak.

broken shards of tempered glass
scattered across the parking lot
flare excrement in little piles
give the children something to poke at while they wait
heated voices from behind the Datsun
as she screeches disapproval
frantically explaining the bind
a momentary loss of concentration can bring
expressing innocence and professing innocents
tears spill as reality takes hold
the bus is the only option now –

I keep hearing about this glass house
having only lived
after plucking
the glass
out

But
who am I
to doubt the tale
with a rock in my hand
leaving bloodied glass in my trail

the cat

     perched

waits

waits

waits



                    pounces

Her eyes they shine  







The deepest blue, matching the sky    

            In the evening, looking off east

O’er the Cascades, latest July

                 Through smoke roasting leg of beast

Can’t look away, though I do try,

                 My mind recoils from the feast.




Across the office, right at lunch

                 I notice the tumbling sea

Crashing waves cause pebbles to crunch

                Tsunami rolls in, wild and free

Afraid to move, I ponder brunch

                And ask those eyes to come with me  




Across the table, crystal clear              

         Aquamarine gemstones shine bright

Facetted perfect shed no tear

                 Refracting starlight in the night

Bringing me peace, removing fear

                Those eyes make me feel I’m alright