Silence

You spend so much time in silence
That it scares you
Like the dark–

You try to fill it with words and song
Clicks and tics,
Anything
That will drown it out
Like running through the house
Turning on all the lights

Love Spell

Some smells

bring back memories

as vivid as bright paint graffiti

newly shaken and sprayed

from a bottle

or can

*Stroke*

Let me stroke you

Soft and slow

Like a gentle whisper

Tickling your ear

Light as air

Floating

Like walks on cloud nine

swallowing steel

Trying to forget you
While you stand in front of me
Being the you
You are
Is like swallowing steel
In the presence of a strong magnet

Hell in Paradise

The bark of guns
Fade into the background
So part of the dark outside
That silence
Scares the tough shell courage
From his adolescent body

Other Things Intense

The ones that never get written The ones that say too much The ones that show me bare Are the ones I want to share with you The ones that are born of intensity Raised in oppression The hardy blossoms sprouting from stubborn ground Those are the ones especially for you Not the pampered easy […]

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I will read you

I will read you
Like poems,
Like anthologies of poems
Like words painted on pages by old stencils
I will read your past