Tag Archives: poetry
I Imagine Some Day
I imagine some day you will believe me when I tell you my paper skin can take no more of your tears. Someday when you wipe your eyes on me and your crying is over and I am thick with … Continue reading
From Clay
I would love the way you wounded me even if I did not love you; only some kind of divine perfection must know how to bleed a man that much and still leave life remaining. God, you, the perfect sadist, … Continue reading
Twenty-Seven Minutes Past the Hour
I didn’t realize how much time had passed. I didn’t know. It hurts my heart to think of you sometimes, wasting away. I remember you. The both of you. Like it was yesterday. As if it were. As if I … Continue reading
Always at the pen
Men with white hair men with dark suits men with white roses with stems six to eight feet long. Each bundle of flowers looks like a body carried with reverence, up the steep hill. Someone, somewhere in the procession drops … Continue reading