Fight. She said to bring life from ash. To stave off dust from the beam of light that cuts the attic cluttered with abandoned objects. He needs to fight the light because she fears the darkness. The universe is shaped like two clasped hands – consumed by the thing that holds it in existence. The [...]
Posts Tagged ‘relationship’
Fight
Posted in Poetry, tagged man, relationship, Woman on June 24, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Kenosis and Kinesis
Posted in Poetry, tagged Creation, destruction, kenosis, kinesis, relationship, sacrifice, things on August 27, 2009 | 1 Comment »
She keeps from going to pieces by visiting the world and seeing the stars from the top of my car above moon roofs but below the reflecting surface of lakes and when she goes she takes me with her. We see where we are going in the puzzle in the sky and written in cracks [...]
Self-Service
Posted in Poetry, tagged Children, Love, man, manhood, relationship, service, Woman, womanhood on June 29, 2009 | 13 Comments »
Your hands press overlapping crop circles into my knotted back, the same high pressure system that swirled a storm on dirty dishes and cleared condensation off the glass shower door to reveal your face amidst steam. We whisper though the house is empty and too large. You waited for me to come home for this, [...]
Dead Languages
Posted in Poetry, tagged once was love, relationship, Silence, Words on June 18, 2009 | 6 Comments »
When our voices stopped we realized the silence of the car. Even the usually fickle transmission was a silent assassin. Her fingers moved like conspiracy as she tapped an uncomfortable beat into her expensive purse. I rolled the window down to let breath into the void. She cursed loudly and hit me. The car jerked [...]
Unimagined Imagery
Posted in Poetry, tagged human, Love, relationship, Woman on May 14, 2009 | 1 Comment »
She asked for a simple answer to supply her with definition bored of metaphors and expectable precision she asked me to tell her what is was we were living for. Pasta with a simple sauce passed ejaculating words choking on the broken wisdom lost. “Save the bread for the birds. We desire something more.” Eye [...]
We Knowers
Posted in Poetry, tagged air, Creation, freedom, genealogy of morals, ideas, knowing, land, Love, matter, relationship, sea, Woman on December 29, 2008 | 2 Comments »
We stand, I sigh we knowers on the edge the pupil-less eyes of the over class peering through our share of knowledge. To remember our history is to watch it happen again powerless to the sky brilliant blue abyss and to tell it we don’t care we kiss, I sigh. I sigh, we stand our [...]
Aristotle’s Romantics
Posted in Didactic, Poetry, tagged broken dishes, life, Love, marriage, relationship on November 6, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Shattered porcelain like unburied artifacts look like clouds on a hardwood sky. She broke it, she is broken. Standing by the dishwasher her fingers between teeth to prevent tears. The curls of her black hair bounce in the rhythm of her tapping foot. A treatise could be written about her stance, a theory constructed out [...]
