• haikus i

    wide river of time
    i sob for a hundred years
    and flow to your gates

    rain pools in two hands
    i see your face without age,
    without anecdote

    the winter remembers
    a girl who had nothing but
    the horse on her back

  • the last comet

    It was all ethereal and bright
    Until you felt its weight, but even that wasn’t enough
    It had to fall to mean something

    You sail slowly across space,
    A goddess gliding through the dust of towns,
    In your arms, the remnants
    Of a world, where lovers danced
    Like nets of stars

    I’ve heard it’s true that you can love someone
    From a distance, from another planet, even

    Your fuse lights again, with a wishful match
    You move like a light, try to shoot
    Your body into the haze of romance
    Landing only in a moonlit field
    Without a sound, or a spark

  • slow burn

    In a dying fire,
    There are two ways to remember someone:
    In the smoke
    And in the embers

    This place, marked with feelings
    As conclusive as footprints
    You press gently into me
    Again and again
    I cannot reconcile with it,
    That seasonal purgatory
    Of wondering when to fold
    Against a relic

    The rush of water
    At every imaginable distance
    Your face,
    A hazy inferno