Vague

Don't try
To tell me 
You never thought
About vaporising
Molecules spinning
Apart from one another
Until you are just
A vague half remembered
Melody

May Haiku #5

When my voice returns
I will scream an aria
Just to shut you up

Snap

Walled in
By octaves of
Silence
And this muteness
Follows your
Choice
Of perfect cadence
And we were
Always playing
With dissonance
Before the 
Strings snapped

Etched

I could scour
You off of the surface
But you'd remain
Etched into my 
Spine anyway
And that's the price
Of devotion

May Haiku #4

Academic fog
Printing allowance top up
Peer reviewed sadness

Stay

Twenty two years
And the same
Old questions come
Knocking knocking
Knocking
At the windows
Of this hurt
Were you cold, and
Did you cry, and
If he'd stopped,
If he'd stopped,
If he'd stopped,
Would you have stayed?

Searching

It shouldn't be this hard
To find a smile
In a crowd 
It shouldn't be this hard
To find a friend
Among the fakers
It shouldn't be this hard
To find a lover
Behind shyness
But it is, and yet
We keep on looking
Led by loneliness
Into hopefulness

Regrets

I wish I didn't miss
You and the way
You looked at me
But I paid far
Far too much
For your attention
And there's no
Refunds on love
So now I'm out
Of pocket
Out of patience
And I can 0nly
Afford to spend
Time on myself

May Haiku #3

Make me feel better
Dance rips into my stockings
Out at a dive bar

May Haiku #2

Restless in the rain
Torturing time until something
Brighter comes along

Funny That

It’s funny how 
The boys who tower over me 
On the city streets 
Are the same boys 
Who cower beneath me 
On freshly laundered sheets

#565

Touch me like you mean it
Touch me like
This is the last time we'll
Be here
Like this
All flesh laid bare 
And wanting all sensation
Played fortissimo

Touch me like you mean it
Touch me like
My blood belongs under your
Fingernails and
My skin
Exists only to be coloured 
By your caged desire
Released from captivity

May Haiku #1

When the odds are down
Put your poker face back on
Keep your cards closer

On Your Way

Graze and pick
Over me
A carcass
Mute bleached bones
And a heart
Bigger than wisdom
Scrape the stubborn
Remnants of 
Love
And be on your way