Keep caressing concrete
Forever fondle flowers
Someday you’ll be sane
Believe this
Keep caressing concrete
Forever fondle flowers
Someday you’ll be sane
Believe this
Reluctant to berth
Determined to tread
With bronzed, coppered skin
And hanging within
The cast, iron heart
Forged just for your Hand
That Hope
From East to West
Proved up
Makes dry land
Is your kiss
Conditional
Upon my curves
Withheld
But for my smile
Or will you
Take
The flats of me
Steal
My stoicness
The silver
For timbre not vice
The pale
For tears and not screams
The black
Forever and ever
Would a magic verse appear
In a wild vision clear
Houdini I draw you near
Reveal I plead the times once more
Will I turn at the corner floor
To silhouetteless battened door
Courtesy
To tired thoughts
Was for earlier
It is close enough to dawn
I would wake you damnit
From your slumber song
From your flannel dreams
For the time
I held you in esteem
Woman
The empire shone
The Jewel in the East
None war
None pain
Ukraine
What never started
Is over
Because it had to
Be
Be
Being
Am
Is
I leave
This
At
That
As with the look in need
The reaching out
And switching off
The bedside light
A calming tell-tale moment
Came
Quietly
Thankfully
For a fleeting flash
That noise
Was graciously
Over
No one
And their apology is coming
To hold my heart
To stroke my hair
How the twisting
The imprinting
With the counterfeit
Occurred I don’t know
I need you
Sleeptalker
Tell me
Why tell me