Saturday, April 13, 2013

Tolerant rust.


Turn yourself red
With tolerant rust
As lines creep through time
And spread fissures through dust

Build yourself high
With colossal surprise
As the sky pulls in tight
To cross peaks and lead light

Allow bodies to flow
Through spider-vein rivers
Through forests of red
And find yourself gone

Allow mist above snow
Through its long-winded travels
And find yourself empty
Find yourself free

To wish for the fall
And wait for the red
To creep past the lines
And flood past the dead
To scratch at the sky
Turn air into rust
To pick up the pieces
And carry the dust

Please pick up our pieces,
And carry our dust.

Tuesday, April 2, 2013

Compare.

I disappeared like a summer day
Like the wasted hours
And humid haste
I disappeared like the morning haze
Like the muffled grey
And pregnant day
I disappeared like a place to lay
Like lining sheets
And anxious wait
I disappeared like heavy words
Like warming breath
And calming ways
I disappeared like dripping tongues
Like wretched rock
And red contempt
I disappeared like loving comfort
Like common places
And old new faces
I disappeared like covered madness
Like shouted notes
And sidewalk chords
I disappeared like asphalt fissures
Like cigarettes
And yellowed scraps
I disappeared like desert wind
Like huddled water
And canyon spins

I disappeared like smoke.