The Coffee Shop
The people come with purpose and they leave without dismay, the coffee shop aromas rising all throughout the day. I watch them come, I...
Do it in the darkness
Do it in the darkness. Do it with the wisdom of despair wrapped around you like a rag drenched in dark blood, old losses, pleasures...
Fresh Eyes
Your fresh eyes now are priceless, open springs of bitter knowledge clarified, made sweeter still, made pure and holy. It has been said...
After the Snow
Oh, the wintry conundrum of poise: do I love you or not? do I place the tea kettle on the stove and make love to your body, or leave...
The Pull
I want continuity to my existence. O Night, O, soften me, turn me tender and gaping, a wound in the flesh of our darkness, the water that...
Together
I am still tethered, inextricably, to those places that have been sanctified by your longing gaze, still longing myself for your gaze and...
The City of the Heart
With the Key that is the Word of God been fashioned solely for to open doors, unlock the looming gates of City Walls, those hearts of men...
Ode to the Inseparable Sufferings of Men
The dew hangs from the heavy trees, pulling them closer to their Mother, the old Earth of love and roots, soil and Sun. I found her...
The Tests of Time
May Mercy’s Providence be never slowed or stopped, may it continue to be known, so ice may die into the water’s flood, and fire come to...
The Iron Life
There's no quick, easy fix. It's hard, hard fucking work. It's bathtubs of coffee. It's a mind like a furnace, a forge. It's regiments....