drawing blood for nameless gods

the pain, that day, was inevitable.
conversely, the smell of
fresh grass on the back pockets of
our jeans brought about
an unmistakable vivid tenacity for life, the kind that leaves your
shaking palms drawing blood for nameless gods.
i would then press my damp fingers over your eyelids, and tentatively
bite at each and every indicia of vertigo-
hungrily, not
even as [...]

Plastic rose ragdoll

You— set a virus in my skin. I am sienna and gold, and lavender and brass. I am the fragrance on the back of your neck, etched into a synthetic tattoo sighing our mathematical equation. You and I are not ellipsoidal. Erase the surface area. Shade over my scent with the syrup of her cordovan [...]

I used to believe in you.

Dear Virtue,
I was wondering if perhaps
you could lend me a compass
so I could document each and every sigh and tremor and beat
(you make)
I’d like to check if you are suffering from apnea,
or if you are at all, living. (What’s that? You are.)
(Just not au courant of-)
I was wondering if perhaps
you could
entrust me
with a
map of your [...]

Child: seize each moment.

Ebullient neophyte: let be your laughter,
for one straight moment.

Abjure that vim, if only to rid yourself of that puerile scent. [...]

The soldier that wished to be an astronaut

Somber soldier, encompass the nefarious with your sword
Have shame, sitting fainéant in such is the way of the sloth
Soldier dearest, I see magnitude in your eyes
You fancy to be an astronaut, with an (afterglow) minus the (day)
(oh lets let it be a glow, it will glow, it glows, that heart)
dream of that, like a toy, [...]