THE EIDOLON

I wished to start at the point of destruction  Preferably pressing a pen into my pupil  For you see it doesn’t take a doctor to tell you...

A woman’s humming voice drifted out of the kitchen. It melded with clanging pots and pans, boiling water in the kettle, whooshing hot air...

A To be the best, there must be nothing left to gain. A is the sharp tip of a needle that points upwards at the sky from the very top of...

I see myself now as I do every night. The scene is different now. New dreams are rare these days, and the uncertainty makes me restless....

Caress, the folding arms Like little wings Unconscious, in your lap Love the body Trace the peaks with your brutish fingers In...

The sun, The days begun, The sound of kids and fun, The heat and summer rain, The fog on my window pane, Summer drives me sane. There’s...

Distance is only a term Is what I used to tell myself The ties I had to her, I held firm Instead of nailing them down to a shelf. For...

Red dust Gathering in the orchestra pit between the strings and brass A little mound rumbles Like a town Conceived by an opus I am of the...

Sierra I’ve never spoken to him, only admired from afar. He’s never seen me as clearly as I see him. He thinks we haven’t written...

Listen;  The sun is quiet  I hear your heart thrumming We look beautiful, flowering, Dreaming

all my free time is spent covering journal pages with our blood that i've drawn. oil and water the way we show up on a page but in the...

Five kids step outside to talk, Head to the beach for a walk. Life is loud and we just need some quiet. She speaks and I stay silent, We...

I don't like the cold weather. This unbearable feeling has been engraved in me for as long as I could remember. 15 years ago around...

you're back now and i don’t feel as broken. you donated some of your bones to make me a new spine (now i can stand up straight) and my...

A wall of bricks crashed all over me, dull and long lasting contusions making themselves home on my body. The ecstasy that was welling in...

Jealousy and Envy Misunderstood Misused Both toxic and poisonous One more than the other Jealousy:  You were mine You were taken You were...

Only fifty miles till peace. A lot more ahead, a long way from anywhere, but at peace. A lone wanderer of the wilderness, gone too far...

School, what an amazing invention  Where kids are stuffed into classes  And fed information When we get home and our parents ask  “How...

These cuts Were like hickeys Love marks Across my body  They made constellations The scars you gave me Became the sky you promised

I'll never find you over a crescent hill you disappear on your way to make an unfathomable escape in infant time a spruce in the cradled...