How do I explain
The significance of white jet trails against the blue/pink sky
Or winter coats blowing in on an autumn breeze?
Aboard an impending train,
Hope is the rumbling whisper
Of what is to come, the electric hum of
Phantom boxcars.
I lean to the ground, listening to
Patterns mapped against radio static, wondering
Why the cat hacked a hairball on my [...]
it dies without even knowing it was alive
on sunset drift, the human voices saunter
loudly into night, empty buildings packed with
plastic faces glow naked like
porcelain to catch our eyes, sculpted breasts
and detailed smiles
automatons locked in street-wise yawns to detour
sleek-lined lies made by sultry lips
carving O’s
blowing kisses, one for the road
and one for the home and one [...]
Between branches, I watch the strange white birds
Dance in the foilage beside the street,
Each curved neck bending time and searching
For the creek that was lost, the foreign trees
That now loom.
Are you a profusion, they ask one another, or
A question without an answer;
Their curved necks punctuate the silence,
Flickering light in the trailing green of where
The sidewalk [...]
we fell in love and kissed under the sun
wrote down the way this ends, and then we kissed again
i hear the sound, the gods can’t scare me now
cause i’m too young to die and already broken inside
a message recorded a year from today
says i’d have called sooner, but forgot your name
i hope it comes against [...]