Tuesday, April 11, 2017

In and Out


A round face drawn blindly, lucrative lips puckered north, nose twitched facing east

Auburn wavy hair sitting on loose shoulders, little points for the noble, wrists tied in bracelets

Of loves lasting tenure, off and gone, blown away by the gale winds, the saviors sea went south farther then we bothered to grasp.  We lapsed for air, lapped up warm milk, hair touching floorboards, resting silk on chairs.

We laid prone, back towards archways depicting gothic architecture, My body was a nomenclature to these passengers

My aura be the divine, the line between luxury and the sublime.  Nirvana speaks profoundly through the whispers, it feels loud, it echoes through the ribbed vault, we were halted by the floating eyes.  The tap shoes on the stairs, the stares fell from every direction, A stare for a Fare, My fair lady oh chuckles under luminescent.  The candle light hide our posture, the flickering shadows left an impression.  Dancing and darting, One spin Two sips.  Kisses began to multiply under a sanction, our plague was steadily locked up.  We gripped for a moment, fingers grasping on to sweat, slid from each other, never have we met.  Taken to the street, I can't see I can't weep, the stone below me is the coldest I've felt in weeks.  My garment tucked under my elbow, socks falling for the carnivores, The muscles I burnt felt like open sores

Nothing to remember, loose tales to pass down to foes that asked me questions, Peons I don't know, I depose the matter was luscious, I attest to the lower half, I felt love in an instant, I felt sorrow in a flash.  The other ladies look through me, the stories shown a light, was something behind me, was it her, was it my might.  I looked through the market, the distance I have travelled, the days became corners, the months became battles.  I wandered looking through windows, glare held me back,  Going to church, the scene of the crime, paid for my sins, prayed on my whims I felt pain through my limbs.  Crouched over, knees bent, listening to a sermon murmuring about our goals and our purpose.  One lonely soul flickered, fluttered through the air, the smell I can not forget, lilacs in her hair memories are just as honest senses begin to focus, open bloody open, I look for the woman but all I see is the sea.  All I hear are the waves and all I taste is the salt in the back of my throat trying to sink, trying to dry me out, my moisture being shucked like oysters. I holster up enough energy to leave this wretched cathedral behind.  I grab a row boat, a sack, and a bit of the old sun shine. I head down to the sea, the one that has never been empty, and I feel a rush none of these bystanders could stomach, I jump in and push off.  Love was found at the bottom, the one across the horizon.  

Self Centered


It's easy to view you as a target, see sights and smell frights, rotten citrus jolt to listen

The misses were easier to stomach then the confidence, long neck holding up a pedestal

I peddled to win black jack, hit me till my newspaper falls in the spring puddle

The same one where the reflection mettles stars from the rear view mirrors

Switching lanes passing blame middle finger luck comes with the shame

Stumbled over my middle name, M, knew the mirage was really just memories

Remembered the friends came with amusement, relationships came with easements

Packed in a basement, uneven dreams made the ceiling look feasible, free and easy like a terminal

Earnest, I earned it, worked hard still acting like a tourist, act like you never knew it, smile till you worship

Beg till your pockets spread, Send a hymn, five ink strokes on the whiteness of your bridge to your nose to expose the freedom we carry as a loan, Interested by the contenders, the sane staying content while I learn to worship my speed and the set.  I sat and watch the train graffiti as I listened to the brakes send a dial tone.  A new ohm, industrial poems, new ventilation big tubes flowing shared air, pass it off to the next door neighbors, A bare tare.  Bartender!

I need a fix, I need you to stop stealing feelings, make believe stale, I didn't make you pale, I never felt those things before, comparisons compartmentalized, as long as I'm surrounded I can still be found wandering.  The stars told me fortune, mischievous luxury wrapped in a torso, bound by the weight of less lives often.  Loss has it's importance,

It flutters to and fro like a moth does from a light to a pole.  Boredoms in a thrust, worry about your image, stained like your color after spilling red merlot drinking from the bottle, laughing like it's not a problem but chastity wasn't to be bothered.  I'm bothered by my own gullibility because I make my actions and real is words through your eyes and real is guilty.  Real is being able to reel in that lure, find your worm nibbled, but your location was a blur.  My location I was moving, distance in an instant,  miles became misfits misery stuck it's head out through my moralities impotence

I'm the one who caused this fear, nearing a little crack of a lifestyle I uphold, I try to mold to show that I'm open

Frayed books caught burnt sentences left broken, words still readable it's in the memory still able to see through

Transparent like you stare and it really didn't mean this.  Type away the fallacies, my brave honor meet me at the palisades, the walls were bigger in person because the addiction, the slope, the miles an hour, the hope, tied the few days up like presents, the rest felt like how friction floats, skin taste sour, soap on the floor, and now I'm present. 

Monday, April 10, 2017

Two Piece Telescope Boy and Poetry Events

Here are my two latest Sets from TPTB 

IV

V

I'll also be at two poetry events at the end of the month. 

One is April 24th at the Raue center in Crystal Lake.  A day after my birthday, expecting to have as much fun as I did last time. 

https://www.facebook.com/events/1861260784120455/

And the other one is on the 29th at the Marengo-Union Library.  Never been but should be great. 
Need to write more so I can presently mostly new material for both events.