Poems

I gaze across the booth at you my head adorned by a paper crown sticking out my tongue at you as you suck that milkshake down With a royal flourish I take you by the hand you can be my

I was asleep at the wheel motoring in circles on a corroded dream you knocked me over with a roundhouse kick Saying “don’t worry honey you won’t feel a thing” . Just a clueless knight in rusted armor and a

You wouldn’t look me in the eye I knew that it was done your voice was cold and distant somehow you had won As if winning meant anything when both of us are lost lost in the hollow silence of

These hands…. These hands that have clothed your naked body caressed your sultry cheek run gently through your soft hair these hands veined, strong, hard, and sure have flowed like electricity down your spine cupped the small of your back

A chaotic wind furiously encircles us I hold you in my arms to anchor you I fear this blustery wind I fear that it will blow you up and away from me forever a crisp sheet of paper enscripted with

you were cast out of heaven because you didn’t belong you flew down perched upon a ray of hope right into my arms I gave you more than you bargained for you gave me less than I need all I

you always close your eyes when I kiss you should I close my heart when I miss you should I ride into your fairy tale and claim you as my prize I drink in the red wine of your eyes

I found you standing on the corner of here and nowhere you gave me a “fuck me” look I was wearing my “fuck off” glare I was headed to somewhere just west of hell when your storm sucked me in

I don’t know what to say I have never felt this way before I don’t know what to feel like a mute, blind, deaf man cast overboard at sea I washed up on your shore naked, hungry, wanting more uncharted

In the tortured blackness eyes wide but cannot see the ink of night jails my soul I long to be set free Sheets are tossed asunder naked skin cast in gray mind can’t help but wonder do you also lie