I just cry
Like a stone well inside me
Has broken at the foundations
From an earthquake
Smaller aftershocks still
Unsettling what’s left of me

My childs heart is calling
For retreat, for mommy
Somewhere soft and dark
To hide in
She’s begging death
For sanctuary

Floodwater and drowning inside
I am a spring deep in the earth
And my eyes are bleeding her
Endless waters within me

I Have Strung Me In Mirrors And Light


My focus is sharp
Like a knife
Pressing against your
Vital organ of choice

Who am I,

I know that you can feel it
When I practice
Capturing you with my eyes
Most times you don’t look away
I hope that I have no talent
And you could
But you just don’t

To You?

What do you feel in me?
Have I hidden somehow when
I feel so stupidly bare before you?
Where does my viciousness go
When I feel you?

Who am I?

Did you lower them
Or did you finally let me
Take your hands
Down
Away
Still in the shadows but
I was glowing so bright
When I saw your face
It was beautiful
You dash away sometimes
But look over your shoulders
When the light catches you again

Open your eyes.

Who am I,
To you?
Who am I?
Open your eyes.
Who am I?

I Buried My Soul In The Need That I've Found



I saw you in the morning
Risen sun shining behind your heart
You were smiling then
I felt your burning fingers
We walked into deep night
And stained city streets

Your eyes said that you knew
I felt the hopeless morning with my lips
Remembered the cold gray days
I was so lost when I woke
I never found myself
I never find myself ‘till yesterday
Your eyes said that you knew
All of it was there inside you too

And all of me was here with you
You know my shadowed sleep
How my heart breathes
The feel of my skin

I heard him tell the wind
All the things that poured out of his eyes
All of the last things
Important things
You were never inside your words

Written my eyelids with your every line
Even the ones you never cross
So that when I reach for the scars
Burned and blinded by your rising
I can sigh and say “I loved him,
that’s what everything was for.”

Turn Around And Look At Me




We’re coffee warmed and gone up in smoke
The morning is always colder than expected
Lips sore with a smile never caught your eyes
Even the ever shrinking words can’t cover
You love these eyes
But you won’t look
Why don’t you look me in the eyes

I glow in the satisfaction of your nearness
Let my soul soak slowly in the sighs of my heart
I am held by your quickness broken embrace
Never took the time to feel me real
You’ve got ghosts in your eyes
But it’s not me
Why don’t you look me in the eyes

Hitched chest and frozen breath in waiting
Watching window corners for your shadow
You’ve somehow left without coming
Gone without knowing
Why won’t you just look me in the eyes