faint expression

2012-02-01T15:54:00.001-08:00

Spring never sprung
And winter wouldn't come
Which just leaves
You
You
You
Here in the heat

2012-01-26T03:25:00.001-08:00

Five hundred sixty seven point three
is the number of miles
between you and me.
(But our hearts have
never been closer.)

2011-10-11T19:24:00.001-07:00

The constant relief I feel,
With each breath I inhale,
Is like the comfort I have
When I hear your voice.

2011-07-06T18:05:00.001-07:00

Out you pour like sand
Going through the pinched glass
That narrows before the escape.
Woman that I loved
Who traced and marveled
At the many lines that divided the world.
Can you trace new lines
To where you are going?
Can you draw a border
Around your lovely soul?
Chef of scorched pancakes
(The only way I like them),
Christmas fudge,
And summer sandwiches,
You filled me with sweets
That reflected your sweet soul.
Drawer, painter, beauty maker,
Your hands crafted
Many wonderful things.
Your hands.
Your crooked hands.
Bent, pointed, strong.
Can those hands now
Grasp these last edges?
And can you remember
Me now?
Can those eyes trace the lines
Of my face and see me?
Can you know me
And recognize
How much I have loved you?

2011-04-05T15:43:00.000-07:00

There seemed hardly enough wind.
But you made that tiny silver kite dance about our heads
So lively that I thought surely it wasn't a kite.
Surely it must be alive and only pretending.

2011-03-14T22:26:00.000-07:00

Goddess of the Dawn,
Rise from the East
To bring peace
When winter has gone.

2011-02-07T20:58:00.000-08:00

These thin walls tell me
more than she ever would

2010-12-23T12:50:00.000-08:00

I'll find you
In that Neverland
Where we can
Walk a while
To remind
You of the days
When you used
To smile

2010-12-21T17:56:00.001-08:00

It's all just water and wind
Given a little spin
That lets us tell the future.

2010-12-21T17:55:00.000-08:00

there is the softness
and stillness
and pause between
your breaths
that puts the world
at ease

2010-08-03T10:18:00.000-07:00

Stay in the warm, soft bed,
Where the curtains and blankets
Block out the sun and noise
And all thoughts of people leaving.
Stay in bed to sleep.
The world feels better there.

2010-07-18T08:09:00.001-07:00

I wake up to your words,
"I wish you were here,"
Lighting up my phone,
But really, lighting up my heart.

2010-07-17T09:54:00.000-07:00

You're like thunder
And lightning
Such a comfort
While I sleep

2010-07-17T09:52:00.000-07:00

Tired friend,
When conversation fades
What is left in the end?
Are you happy
Or so bitter
To the world again?

2010-07-17T09:50:00.000-07:00

This is good.
We are good.
And I can't think
Of what
Would be better.

2010-07-17T09:48:00.000-07:00

Left alone in the wind,
Make up words
For life's sins.
When it's an effort
To keep us going,
What's the point?

2010-07-14T18:57:00.000-07:00

We will be
Split apart
For our own
Selfish needs

2010-05-21T18:29:00.000-07:00

The past six months could not
have been better spent
With happiness above
any other extent

2010-05-21T18:18:00.000-07:00

I have no mind
For dollars, dates, and times.

2010-05-21T18:15:00.000-07:00

I wrote words in the walls
I can't remember
And left images behind
I cannot forget.

2010-05-11T18:46:00.000-07:00

The memory of you

Has always been

The faint expression

Across my face

2010-04-20T15:42:00.000-07:00

I can't believe it's right

My thoughts to go to

My heart to go to

Putting all restlessness

At ease

You at my side

2010-02-16T21:29:00.001-08:00

The list keeps getting longer
Of questions I can't answer
And I'm supposed to be
Here for an education.

2010-02-16T21:25:00.001-08:00

I'm scared to be in love with you
Because I know what we'll do
When we have to walk away
And I fear that impending day

2010-02-16T21:20:00.000-08:00

I feel the pulse beat
In my fingers
And taste the breath
Of you,
Spilling over my skin,
Heavy,
Like the smooth smoke
Of a cigar.
Holding my tongue
Between your teeth,
You whisper your
Intoxicating prayers,
And surround all thought
In my mind...

2010-02-16T21:14:00.000-08:00

This deserted land deserves better
With it's broken and abandoned fame

2010-01-24T20:38:00.000-08:00

You taste so fine
Like a bottle of '87 wine
Putting a smile on my face
And tingles down my spine

2010-01-24T20:35:00.000-08:00

Despite all our swearing
We let ourselves fall apart.
I knew it last July
As we stood in the old alley
Posing in the lighting
With your camera held high.

2009-11-02T17:35:00.000-08:00

I have yet to memorize your face

For I fear you'll catch me staring.

2009-11-01T20:12:00.000-08:00

You've got a heart of gold.
Perhaps that's why you keep sinking.

2009-09-28T18:19:00.001-07:00

I'm ready for a change,
So if I speak my mind,
This time I mean it.
I would rather be disappointed
By your reaction
Then hide my own.

2009-09-24T06:12:00.003-07:00

My hands are shaky
but my will is stable.

2009-09-24T06:12:00.001-07:00

Moving on means
going to something else,
which was what you
were supposed to be.

Birthday Song

2009-09-24T06:11:00.001-07:00

Light a candle
Sing a song
You're closer to death
It won't be long

2009-09-24T06:09:00.000-07:00

I'd twist my body
in whatever way
you wanted me to,
but that doesn't mean
I ever loved you.

2009-09-23T06:47:00.000-07:00

I want your life
Turned around.
Instead of being
Buried in the ground.

2009-09-23T06:43:00.000-07:00

The sun's shining,
Is that why you're crying?
'Cause it reminds you of home?

2009-08-11T23:40:00.000-07:00

Even with the sun at your back
Your smile shines so brightly
Its brilliance brings
Tears to my eyes.

2009-08-11T23:39:00.000-07:00

His suit was True Black
And his teeth True White
Anchorman by day
Sith Lord by night

2009-07-30T15:40:00.000-07:00

You’ll realize
Everyone you love
Leaves,
Until the day you yourself
Must pack up
And go

2009-07-30T15:38:00.001-07:00

She was every color of crazy
And she was beautiful to me.

2009-07-30T15:37:00.001-07:00

How can it be
We understand each other
Deep down
But hardly know
What makes up our outer mind
And daily thoughts?

2009-07-13T13:41:00.000-07:00

There’s a stiffness in your mouth,
When you move your lips to speak.
You seem unconscious of the way
Your brows draw together.
Your movements seem more tense,
But most of all,
I see it in your eyes,
Those crystal lakes that tell all.
Those eyes that stare out
See the world differently now.
They are older.
You are older.
The way you hold yourself,
It’s slightly more crushed.
The weight of expectations
Has pushed down upon you.
The burden that you carry
Hunches your shoulders
And makes your feet drag.
You are uncomfortable in this situation.
You are not happy here.
I can tell as I stare back at you.
Life could have been better,
You think,
But we all go in the end.

2009-06-13T08:47:00.000-07:00

You’re the taste of bitter almonds
And a poison to the mind.
A toxic gas around the room
Causing currents that you’ll wind
-
To pull all others to your will.
It’s you acts alone in fact
That cause hurt and really kill.
Everyone can see that.
-
There has to be an antidote
Or some way to keep you out.
Dig a trench, fill a mote
So you cannot cross the ground.
-
You’re will’s not really good,
You think only of yourself.
You’ll spoil all the food.
You’re a danger to people’s health.

2009-06-07T22:42:00.000-07:00

I was thinking
I could make tea
While you watered the plants inside
And the rain watered the others outside.
And then we could curl up
In soft blankets
In our cozy home library,
Reading all day long
With the steam rising off our cups
And speaking in hushed, soft voices.
The cat above our heads,
His long fur tail tickling the back of our necks,
Purring loudly,
Would reflect our contentment.
You could play your music,
And the sounds would drift down the stairs
And across the wooden halls.
We could sing together
And you could compose your tales
While you taught at the University.
I could tell you all about the weather
And it would never be small talk to us.
We could go hiking up the trails
That wound their way through the
Emerald City and the soft pale sky
Could not touch us.
Living would be easy.
Our motivation,
We could have reason like none other.
I was thinking
It could be us.

2009-06-07T22:37:00.000-07:00

I am happy to have kept
Company with you
In that field of clover.

2009-06-07T22:29:00.000-07:00

You hit the brakes
and the fear leaked out of me.
It's a good night for singing.

2009-05-13T22:29:00.002-07:00

Sanguine faces
foretold the fall
of Rome.

2009-05-13T22:29:00.001-07:00

I recently read
"Mistakes aren't always regrets."
Well it was a mistake
To love you.
And I'm glad I did.

2009-04-27T20:45:00.000-07:00

Facing the river,
Facing the wind,
We faced our futures,
And were scared
Of what it had sent.
But breathing deep,
Holding the air in our lungs,
We said what we meant
By holding our tongues.

2009-04-08T20:14:00.000-07:00

Sometimes my room
Feels more like a motel.
When my bed is made,
I should be leaving soon,
Or maybe just arriving.

2009-04-06T00:20:00.001-07:00

Home, I’ve heard
Is where the heart is,
So babe, you’ll have
To cut me in two
‘Cause my home’s
Always with you.

2009-03-31T22:16:00.000-07:00

Cold roast chicken
and cheap blackberry wine
for dinner on Tuesdays
all the time.

2009-03-31T13:15:00.001-07:00

Of course we knew
Wizard, Waldo, Scroll
On every page,
But we still continued
To look for him.
Hoping he had moved,
Or perhaps searching for
The only constant in our lives.

2009-03-15T22:50:00.000-07:00

Do you think we'll remember
this when we're old?
Will we know we were naive,
or just regret the loss
of it all?

2009-03-11T18:47:00.001-07:00

The white bits of dust
that cling to each of the keys
remind me of the night it snowed
and no one saw but you and me.

2009-03-07T20:21:00.001-08:00

These days
I’ve got two left feet.
And my mind’s stumbling,
Lips stuttering,
Heart fluttering,
Every time we meet
With your becoming ways.

2009-03-07T20:20:00.001-08:00

It’s said good art
Never comes
From happiness.
So what
Does that make you?
My muse?

2009-03-04T22:48:00.000-08:00

Why did we turn
Into scientists?
We were going to be
Lovers and painters,
Priests and picture-book makers,
Boat rowers,
Movie goers,
Avid,
Malleable,
Free.

2009-02-27T21:14:00.000-08:00

Spokes spinning,
In the race against no one,
I’m winning.
Pedaling,
In the air I feel free.

2009-02-23T18:53:00.000-08:00

My friends tell me
I have an obsession.
I tell them
I have patience.
<3

2009-02-15T22:14:00.000-08:00

I’m waiting for the catharsis
That doesn’t come.
The dried salt cracks
When I move my face,
Reminding me, as it
Leaves its trace,
Of what I wouldn’t be.

2009-02-10T19:39:00.000-08:00

It's funny darling

how when we have

nothing to say,

it's the most audible

thing in the room.

2009-02-09T17:11:00.001-08:00

Oh yes it does matter
What you say,
And what you think,
And the reason for
That look on your face.

2009-02-03T15:35:00.000-08:00

I've got no more goals
and forgotten all my dreams
when you're around.
I just don't know
if that's a bad thing.

2009-01-20T21:20:00.000-08:00

I’m saving all my pennies
So I could spend a day with you.
I hope you’ll go along
To spend it with me too.

2008-12-30T19:09:00.000-08:00

Sleep eight hours,
Work eight hours,
Play eight hours,
Yet it never
Unfolds that way.
So the thoughts
Blur in my mind,
And wasted are
My weeks and days.

2008-12-17T21:27:00.000-08:00

I’m not a fan of sunshine
But I want to see the beach.
Perhaps with seagulls
As the only occupants
And the icy sea spray
Covering our booted feet.

2008-12-17T21:21:00.000-08:00

When the world’s too bright,
I’ll come to you dear.
You’ve got the darkness
I’ve been looking for.
Or do I have it backwards?

2008-11-25T14:46:00.000-08:00

I told you the apple was poison.
You just laughed.
I guess you should learn to listen darling.

2008-11-24T18:48:00.000-08:00

You can put all my words together
And they will spell out nothing more
Than the fact I can’t stop believing
There is something more in all of us.

2008-11-21T13:25:00.000-08:00

Time turns what we want away.
And with it brings new things.
So what that I started enjoying coffee?

2008-11-06T18:45:00.000-08:00

We'll reach new octaves

And make new stars.

The expanse that reaches

Between us is nothing

We can't whisper across.

2008-11-06T17:42:00.001-08:00

I know all

The faces we would make

Stuck in a photo booth

Together.

Madame de Notre Terre

2008-11-06T17:27:00.000-08:00

Here are your processed and manufactured lives,
Filled with the decadent and dishonest.
Here are your tired
Here are your poor
Here are your huddled masses
yearning to breathe free.
The homeless, the tempest-tossed,
Here they lie, at your feet!
Take them Mother,
And form them better in your hands
for each is tarnished o’er
with the sick green cost of you.
Autonomy, take them back,
For too long olden times have been glorified.
Wash them in the sea, Lady, and your hands.
May they then rise faultless and new.

2008-11-01T01:19:00.000-07:00

Scribbled in my margins
Are the words of what
I meant to say.
Each line blurred,
As the pages
Have all rubbed together.

2008-11-01T01:16:00.000-07:00

When I fell in love with you
I realized I couldn’t describe you anymore.
It’s like you had gone beyond all summaries.

2008-11-01T01:15:00.000-07:00

It is a different time
And memory I hold.
It was solid time,
Sure and gold.
Set apart, I have lived
Better moments now,
And wouldn’t step back
If time allowed,
But it was a different
Place and time.

2008-10-22T17:27:00.000-07:00

Does your soul expand as you grow older,
Or pour out of you,
‘til it’s gone,
and you die?

2008-10-18T07:29:00.000-07:00

We will have to make up new words,
'Cause I've said all I can to you.

2008-10-17T07:40:00.000-07:00

I’m no poet.
I just hate writing
Full lines
Across the page.

2008-10-16T09:24:00.000-07:00

I’ve lost all of my umbrellas,
But it’s really not that much of a pain
Walking across the courtyard
In the rain.

2008-10-16T09:13:00.001-07:00

I closed my eyes
And saw a helicopter
In my mind.
But you woke me up
From my day dream.

2008-10-16T09:10:00.000-07:00

All I need is an open road,
You,
And her mellow voice
To carry us on.

2008-10-14T07:16:00.001-07:00

The postal women
con you into buying
too many damn stamps!

2008-10-12T21:08:00.001-07:00

I realized I didn’t have any more pictures of us together.
And I tried to draw your face.
But I can’t recollect,
And like you would expect,
I’ve always lacked that talent.

2008-10-10T21:12:00.001-07:00

I wanted to carve our names in a tree,
But the blade of my knife
Was too dull to pierce the bark,
So we carved out our soft hearts
Instead.

2008-10-07T21:00:00.001-07:00

It’s too bright here.
I want to go
And find a soft rainy place.

2008-10-06T18:04:00.001-07:00

I love you like the wind.
Calm and gentle,
It thrashes and tears out
Everything too.

2008-10-05T15:39:00.001-07:00

I bought a pack of note cards
To share my secrets with the world.
But I found I no longer had any
To tell.

2008-10-05T14:29:00.001-07:00

We are a series of events
That have collided together,
Creating this thought,
This feeling,
This knowledge,
That I could not have obtained
Any other way.

2008-10-02T15:15:00.001-07:00

I traced your face
In ivy and in gardens.

2008-10-02T06:18:00.001-07:00

I easily tire
when your statements
require,
an answer.

2008-10-01T07:41:00.000-07:00

My old thesaurus
Holds my favorite knowledge
Words are my treasure

2008-09-30T21:24:00.000-07:00

I miss my school library,
Sitting on the third floor,
Watching the people pass
And turtles float by.

2008-09-29T18:32:00.000-07:00

I miss the grey days,
Trees with no leaves,
And everything melts,
Pale and together.