3.22.2009

More fridge poetry

I thought that was the night
or is it you too?
often where we have
fought off the sunshine on the floor
suddenly; you must smile the uncharted smile
that your eyes told you to.

I watched the fool
talking the eager language
each word dropped on her body
like a desperate kiss
in that hard airport tongue
some goodbyes, are never meant
to be spoken out loud...

3.06.2009

jargon.

i want to play with the roots that
grow languorously from the tips
of your fingers.

sleeping during the day
in a heat wave
and in need of shade.

cut off is how it feels
sometimes; in the distance
sleeping off the shock
of our close contact dialects.

3.04.2009

fair is fair

the language that we made up
is getting lost
in the noise around our feet
and my hands are tired from
explaining everything
in the calm conversational
tones that we
are used to using
the cold spell has frozen
our lips and where we used
to take turns smiling
now we just take turns
forgetting to speak.

2.21.2009

"the bricks keep the cold in."
she said, quietly shivering
under the quilt that was supposed
to keep us both warm.
her explanation was simple
but she knew it made sense
in the way that everything
she said made sense to her.
if i had the words to explain
to her everything that I felt
she needed to know, I would
have taken her cloudy breath
and given her life and a smile.

1.12.2009

Conversations with Avatar

There There child, said avatar;
when you sleep the sleep
of the dead, the world does not
exist. The weeks days lose their
own count, and tomorrows never come
to those who wait. Breathe Breathe child,
said avatar; his thick accent sweeping
the words around in his throat
like a broom, grey eyes far away 
from the todays lesson. Wake Wake
child, avatar said; the wrinkles
climbing his forehead like a ladder
smiling in a way that was meant to
say somedays really are worth living.

11.21.2008

white noise at the end of the world.

I came out of the static
with her knives stuck in my hands
left my old self dead and buried
with a gun stuck in the sand
in my heart you carved your daggers
and the streets ran cold and red
if I don't carry you you'll stagger
is the last thing that you said
hear my foot steps catch and stutter
in the back she held my hand
found the alley that she stranded
and I found him as a friend

on the day she killed november
i hadnt seen her in years
her face it never changes
her heart is changing gears



i hope luke arnold wakes up tomorrow and remembers
that we're starting a hip hop project cause ive already started writing...

11.06.2008

monsters in the city
and the streetlights
are out.

we felt the noise around
each corner, begging us
to find it; the walls
were made of braille
and the bricks made
signposts in broken
arrows; the mortar
weak with names
written with bullets.

even the rooftops left us vulnerable.

a message written
in morse code, paint
on our hands where
we told our story.

we never found the way out.