if memories beckon you to halt ( Read more... )

yet there's fire in your blood
that stays the shadows
run with it

far beyond the street lights
where you can no longer
see body stains

once you're there you'll know
why pencils draw the
darkest lines

please hurry back and tell me
if you remember my
name in time

and then the fortunes
old and new
spoke from an idle tongue

swallowed as if
tried and true
played, and even sung

once you're done
come hither to
that smoky city-side

have a drink
and toast the view
which taught you how to hide

if you rise
oh what to do?
you've never been this high

keep tripping in
the empty queues
but silence not your sighs

drifting, drifting, wild and shifting
sex and painting, rifting rifting
swim through shores and sleep on waves
lie in doors, and creep through graves
fishnet dress will dance to dawn
until that kiss, her fortune won
back and forth, their secret sways
the curse now rising through the haze

How clever of summer. Using its warmth, sunshine, and lack of homework, summer distracts us, giving that false "eternal days of summer" impression that we so gladly cling to so we can continue ignoring the impending reality. The reality that everything is changing. Everything and everyone is going to be different. It will never be the same. Never. ( Read more... )

momentary nightmares, written on book covers, breathe.
why can't i

Once again we've returned to the last summer days. Because of experiences, some of us dread these last two weeks before school. Some of us don't sleep, trying to extract every summer moment from the day. Some of us go into the weeks with our head down, expecting the worst, but find treasures instead. Some of us enter with our head held high, but ( Read more... )

memories:

upside-down
pillows
clocks
stars
victorian
white wine
blueberries
waves
boardwalk
sand
eyelashes
shower
pictures...

and a secret

tick
tock
does it crawl
does it fly

drip
drop
will it fall
will it die

lip
lock
with a call
with a sigh

flip
flop
through the hall
through the sky

giggle