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Time hangs heavy on his hands

A dull, rough crowd

Ragged cloaks, mournful hats

Women enveloped in flowered shadows

It was sinister, but spellbinding

Fugitive footsteps are immediately detected here

The impressive warning system remains silent

capturing irrepressible fits of laughter that bring us closer together

Night falls over the town syllable by syllable

to yield splendours and secrets

A fleece of snow covering feathery ice

Tucked away beneath the snow, a wild song ran through the streets

we could hear it over the loud speakers, through the airwaves

Let me briefly digress on the subject of fear

When you are tired or alone for too long, or you are let down for a moment-after a burst of enthusiasm…

 It can take you… unaware as you turn the corner-

like a cold shower

The dogs that roam the night

A vicious brute who has just been biding his time…

Humour is an excellent antidote, but it takes two to make it work

Instinct aroused by serious danger

Brutal but necessary innovations

This room is bathed in shadow

the smell of turpentine and brushes…

whenever our paths cross, I will make some sign… wink conspiratorially

You will never forget me.

I will never forget myself, or the way I come to terms with my memories

Her eyes were murderous and magnificent

She may have been a river in her own right

muddy and deep and strong

Send a few coarsely flirtatious remarks in my direction

so full of spirit that it pierced me to the heart

What I am:

is a glass bomb.

Tendril lace… over immense liquid sound!

All red + blue, I pronounce:

Let me run after this wind -

for it did slice through the dark -

only to build an avenue for morning song.

Drying off from their evening shower,

he can see her slender tongue:

her bruised bouquet,

saying why go:

when secret skin grows full here

Do not fear the unknown, she whispers: 

Let light shatter across our hazy shorelines-

watch it illuminate the sleeping coast-

and awaken questions ripe with vivid color.

All black + white, where I can see:

This darkness holds no place for me-

Defy constraints, I’d much prefer-

Though time and space think differently.

Please speak of love, of mystical wine, of May sunshine through the windows….

But May sunshine is a long way off, and there is no question of settling down to sleep.

I will always think of him affectionately

Our interminable, hysterical discussions…

and how I am sacrificed by the night  

This fantastic divide-so rare, so distant.

I remain faithful- it keeps me warm inside and clear headed

Fortune tellers promise love and traveling

The heartiest, refined simplicity…

Red-Hot Luxury  

This departure has been like a rebirth

And my world seems too new to bend to methodical reflection

I have neither freedom nor flexibility

Just desire and panic- pure and simple

Under hot water and the expert pressure, tensing nerves relax

One by one hesitations disappearing

A thousand secret floodgates closed by the cold

Opening up again

I reemerge, light and clean   xx

I cannot live behind a lie any longer…

I must exist beyond the shadow of my doubt, and have faith in the unknown

I will deny inevitability, and bring about great change!!

I will not dwell on that which is unseen, for it cannot be predicted…  

To fight against natural progression in effortless fashion, will prove itself futile

I will be neither expected nor grandiose…

I will let the natural ebb and flow of life guide me and give me faith

I will remember to stop and smell the roses…  

I will smile for no reason, and remember that happiness is infectious 

I will let love spill over and wash away any and all hesitation…

Only to prove that love is neither fragile or vulnerable…

Rather, it is resilient in the face of great obstacles…

Time and distance are no match for such a beautiful truth.

been meaning to do this for awhile now… let’s see what all the hype is about… Putting myself out there on the world wide web.

xx