I wasn’t there For myself I was there For the moment When you needed proof When you needed A hammer to bring down So I let you use me Drove Parked Waited Watched you get out And confront my past My proud passenger “Right, Jake?” Point to me. Thumbs up as I sip A coldContinue reading “Invisible Man”
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Miasma
Bad air hangs over Olympia. Be it from the lake, the waterfront, the alleys, uptown, or on the hill where law claims capitol. There lives a wraith somewhere. It manifests to infect newbloods with its promise of risk, how it renders silent the cacophonous mist that is each participant in the mysticism and illusion ofContinue reading “Miasma”
2 Spooky
Adrift
A ghost ship Adrift in deep space Harboring ghosts Of the crew As cargo When the captain left On an escape shuttle Leaving them all to perish
Corrupted Blood Plague
Blue as the ice That grips your wrist Cold as the thunder That quakes your bones Smoke drop splashes In a pool of vapor Floating up the dust Of ancient white rust A bloody taste buds And debases the pond Once so purple pure Now the rust floods
Voorhees
He’s right Behind you Keep sprinting Jump over those tree roots Push through the grime Don’t fall and keep fighting He’s got machete in hand And he stalks you slowly Break through the woods Meet the ground with your foot One after another He slashes and stabs closer Run run run If you stop heContinue reading “Voorhees”
Sun Stained
Sun Stained She had a quintessence audience Gliding silk smooth wave motions Slow lapping, gentle rhythms Hurting rain and hot earth steam Waxing moons rising Trail lines blurring And the air is flowing So smooth The birds circled and flew Overhead undercast A goddess dove and prince crow Circled and danced and revolved It wasContinue reading “Sun Stained”
Deneb Kingdom
Deneb Kingdom There was an artist Held captive in a castle Hidden away from the people High above the next-tallest tower He wrote and drew The things he knew Converted his experience Into wondrous art His captor took this art With no hand to its part Publishing it as her own Making her very well-knownContinue reading “Deneb Kingdom”
Ghost
Ghost I’ve walked all these halls before Like deja vu and so much more I haunt lonely fields and sad trails I see where I have always failed It’s all black and white to me Shimmering images are all I see Yesterday’s experiences reflected Life that wasn’t yet perfected Where was I a year ago?Continue reading “Ghost”
Yellow Apparition City
Yellow Apparition City Your picture is in newspapers From decades ago A person I once really knew On the front page of every issue Wind brings to me the old papers Dated for a today long ago Scattered pages are blown around Catch on legs and clog the gutters On ink so rich, once blackContinue reading “Yellow Apparition City”
