Surf City At Night (Poem)

I dance, silver white waves wetting you as I splash.
I writhe, steel sharp and cold.
Panicked dance of death I struggle
Flopping back and forth, silent
Screams forming on my ever moving lips.
I gasp, chest heaving in despair.
 
I love.
 
Air clear, sky bright as your smiles.
I commit. Damnable world, damnable
Words I coughed and sobbed;
THROW. ME. BACK.
 
Wrapped in paper, laid on ice
While it rains and the last things
I remember are the smell of dirt
And pine and true friendship in the
Dark.
 
Don't jump in the ocean unprepared
Because you cannot leave unsnared and
Now, now I know, too late, I know.
I love you all.

gravity (Poem)

gravity



gravity snaps my foot bones
into little pretzel sticks that
crunch when I walk

I wonder if I stand still
will I see the mice who
live in my knees skitter

down my shins to grab
the bits of bone and cram
them in their cheeks to
feed themselves, store
fat for the winter?

Or will ants come,
steal the crumbs
grains of salt and
march away in lines

while I lose my
will to live.

Full Stop (Poem)

Full Stop

The birds fly past the window where
I sit contemplating suicide in a classroom
where the teacher never stops talking because
I think his drunken father robbed him of his
peace of mind so he goes on and on to soothe
himself, that is, when he isn't bullying students.

Even though these chirping birds could fall
flightless from a branch never having felt
sorry for themselves I wonder if they too
think of suicide and wing themselves full
strength into dirty windows only pausing
for a second, seeing their reflection warped
by speed and grime, before sighing "oh" and
slamming into glass,

full stop.