Creative

Poetry




Red Dress

“A yearning for ofness / A flutter of wants / A plea for downcast eyes / for squirrelish glances / fingerling affections...”
Clarity - Bliss

“Not sandalwood or candle wax / Hotmolded to your palms / But embers in the spine / And resting on your brow...”




Kleist in Bed

“He smoked in bed and wrote on a wooden slate / brown blue coffee ink tobacco, / His spirit flew faster than his broken hands / And formed stone towers on the banks of cognition...”


Siegfried in Flight

“Dream of swiftness / Of flashing across the vault above like any heavenly body / Of shaming the oaks below with the spectacle of a hazy, black train / Of sensing the lifetimes passing each time I, blinking, form the world anew...”