Strong, porcelain Cup on a plate Hot is the taste Only the grounds As clay stay behind Consuming realitea Bitter, bold, and black Cleansing the palettes How welcoming
Category Archives: December Era (IV)
Heroic Curiass
You gift me armor In leather and spikes Patches of property And runes of power Lush to the scent That all at once Smells of incense bombs And demon blood Perfumed by and To be picked clean Of impurity Receiving a guard Drawing card and sword “I will set you free” To drink white-hot realityContinue reading “Heroic Curiass”
Hannah
“I feel like your…” Is what broke the ice Some kind of assumptions We gathered from habits Nearly a writing prompt For a business major Who enjoys the outdoors Reminds me of someone else With the same name In actuality, it was Her second one But everyone called her Hannah Nevermind any differences It’s theContinue reading “Hannah”
Night Terror
4:30 AM. Good morning Says I As I scream Through my dream And forget When eyes open Wondering why I’m now awake
Yuletide Cyanide
Torpor, Headaches, Beadaches, Stress, and Snow Here I lie Paralyzed And consumed By you Being bruised And bled Like I’ve wandered Into your web Skin soft like flakes That fall outside How it gives to the touch And how it melts with me Wrapped up as I’m In your cocoon Bandaging me in slik SpunContinue reading “Yuletide Cyanide”
Ivy Anxious
Ivy Anxious was a blonde Dyed died brunette With big blue eyes that drank in seas And lips stuck any color she pleased Though Ivy Anxious limped a little And sometimes found herself in hospital She reached for her dream of Being best at hair styling And most days you could catch her At salonContinue reading “Ivy Anxious”
Granite Descent
Headless What it felt like Descending Ravenous Back broke To see behind us Mystics running In mist Steps thundering As the canopy of seas Spill unto seekers Clouds spikes seeping Down through stems Spull mystic mist As hammering fist Down A two-hour slope Of dirt and rock Hoping to not Slip On fogged cobble WetContinue reading “Granite Descent”
Kleptomaniac
Bladed pens pulsing With the heart beats Of a dying being Taught between its ribs Breathing with the collapsed Coal mines of cold lungs Quiet as the blood beats Drip onto the sidewalk Of a well-lit street in Downtown Stabbed in a bedroom And conscious on concrete Being bleeding out on carpet Before screaming itselfContinue reading “Kleptomaniac”
V
Doomsday By the fifth Turn of the year 12/21/2012 When we had Camera ready And ample Batteries To record hell As it unfolded Fate was slow To turn that day From an apocalypse To our every day Foretold by the Maya And nostradamus Our world ended That day Have you felt the same Since midnightContinue reading “V”
A Thousand Wishes
A thousand wishes Reminiscent of dresses Hung in the closet Of a studio apartment On her half while his Held suits and slacks And black dread where the Colorblind saw comfort On the elevator up There’s glass between You and the city While you rise Each little street Divides itself to The horizon growing PinkContinue reading “A Thousand Wishes”