PRIMEVAL

The general public
has been crucified
on the morning news

It was on a Tuesday
and very few bothered
to sing the blues

Cardinal treacheries awaited
in pacifist nations and
Castrated generals saluted
to shadow puppet ministrations.

Institutions who formerly avowed
active humanitarian support
had their principles degenerated
so slowly over time the economy

like the encrustation of salt
in a tropical island community,
they ruined it for me, spoonfed
moderates choking on their status-quos.

Who knows what follows
in the likes of their shoes?
Could it be each step into
their professed dream-

-a crumbled dusting in
the wake of their true path-
What is a true step anyhow,
what about across a star?

From one orbit to the next
of planet leaping stones
or one cluster of suns to
another, an intersolar brother

unfound wanted crystal
dreamed-of, precisely
imagined, a stellar chain

of nucleotides connected
through transience.

In waking awariness
unsuspecting each
other's presences

while the dense
distance breathes

in and out among
the scattered light

trails of the
suicide stars

SWALLOW THE SUN

here goes a fine dark scary
n=sinister, type grade amb
i aren't poetry the surface
reflectors are. i mean your
eyes. the camera lens. you

INTIMACY

Into me, see.
Assignment
to me:
Exclusivity,

Sensitivity.
Excuse me,
Can you sense it?
This communion.

So much like
a shared secret
Between us,
what do you mean.

Is nothing sacred
Except your
street cred?
Incredible.

I'm dispensable.
No worries.
Your secret's
Safe with me.

OCULAR AUDITION

A dusted
photograph

blown memories
& lost autographs

have chosen fate
over mere acceptance

Anise water
if the weather's
nice otherwise
freeze a frown
in a bucket of ice

Let it all go before
denial resurrects

imploded treasures
into a painting coated

in fine particles
one dares to measure

before the auction

GLYPH

I don't want to
go to outer space
while there's still
uncharted inner territory
to explore. How could you

face that distance without
even knowing what's near?
And what's more, why did
you leave me, my dear--
to make it to shore?

I will be fine on
my own, I thought
that was taken
for granted.

Since when
had I shown
otherwise, when
I looked in your
eyes? If you look
in my eyes, you'll
see devotion.

Please, don't
leave me
stranded
on this
ocean.