Seamstresses

Melancholy
Doesn't discriminate
All these
Pretty people
Stuffing their
Pockets full of
Pain until
There's no more
Room for hope
And they
Split open
At the seams
Leaving us behind
Ugly and guilty
Seamstresses of 
Regret

June Haiku #13

How many more souls
Will this winter claim for keeps?
Needless surrender

Absent Friends

Sorrow
Is a clutching
Grasping
Pulling
Desperation and
All we can do
Is wait 
Until it slows
Down to
A gentle
Tugging
At the edges

June Haiku #12

Breaking text like ground
Succumbing to winter rain
Verdant stories rise

Furiously Loved

Sure life could be
Easier 
Smoother
If we let them win
If we remain shackled
To the biddable
Ways they sell
Beige like hell
Or life could be
Harder 
Brighter
All colour no filter
Somewhat out of kilter
With the norm
Breaking the form
Of what is prescribed
Don't be shy

June Haiku #11

Talk amongst yourselves
While we tend to our own wounds
Step up or leave us

Nil

Are you keeping score?
Because we are
We're counting every
Life lost and every
Child hurt and every
Woman silenced and every
Difference beaten down
In the quest to keep
Men feeling like 
Men because men
Have to be winning
Or else they don't 
Feel like men
And if they don't
Feel like men
Then what's left?

June Haiku #10

Help me remember
Use your mouth along my spine
Paint me with desire

Wrong Way Go Back

You blinded me
With pain
So don't be
Surprised
That I can't 
Find my way
Back to you

All/Nothing

Only know how
To sing
As if I'll
Never be heard again
Only know how
To kiss
As if I'll
Never be loved again
Only know how
To cry
As if I'll
Never find joy again
I don't know 
Any other way

June Haiku #9

Midwinter craving
Forgetting with someone new 
Skin under my teeth

Yield

You should
Know by now 
That I don't
Surrender
Not without
Persuasion
Not without
The touch 
Of your tongue
Like glitter
Upon me
Making me 
Glow under
Your hands
Like arpeggios
Played way down
Bass clef
Deeply spiced
Mellow
Like your voice
Nudging my 
Temples
Hot with 
Anticipation
You should 
Know by now
That I don't
Surrender
Not without
Permission
To yield

June Haiku #8

Play my tone circles
Syncopate a connection
Bodies bound by breath

The Man

I don't want
You to be
The Man
I just want 
You
Your edges
And your quirks
Let the Man
Fall away
So we can see
You in there

Typeset

Do you have a type?
Nah, not really
But if they're
Lanky
Loud laughing
With slinky hips
And licorice lips
I might
Just
Take a second look

Unloved

Sick baby
Twisted little
Brain on her
Like Medusa
When she's
Unloved
But
When she's 
Warm she'll
Melt hearts
Not hands

June Haiku #7

Strictly flesh language
No time for conversation
Come and break me off

Mind Made Up

The next one
Won't be paying for
Your mistakes
The next one
Will be gold
And you're dirt

Lost Me

All cried out
Nothing in the tank
You're all lies now
Nothing in the bank
Left me in the dirt
Crying for your heart
Now you say you're hurt
You can't stand to be apart
Guess you should have 
Treated me better
Now I'll be someone 
Else's treasure 
You lost me

Stupid Girl

How many better
Lovers walked
By while I
Was stuck on you
And how many
Times did
I walk out
Behind you
Crying

June Haiku #6

Take it all away
The excuses and the songs
And your lazy heart

Both/Neither

I can't be both
Your beautiful
Wonder
And your ugly
Tomboy
And you can't have
Either
Not now
Not ever
Never again

June Haiku #5

Solitude hurts less
Than running back to false joy
I'm never enough

Holes

You can't cut
Out my heart
Replace it with
Flint and
Expect there
To be room left
For your apology

Deaf

Wooing me
With another man's
Words and you 
Wonder why
I'm not listening

 

Pain/Lover

Scar calligrapher
Resurrect me
Let me pay you back
In kind
In blood
In something
Nobody can
Take from you

June Haiku #4

Sell me something else
Your old promises are tired
Time you got going

Outlaw

You're scrambling
Trying to pick
The lock
Of my heart
But I switched
The combination

Thirst

Freshwater
Quench me
Glide under
The abrasions
And drown
Me in my
Craving

June Haiku #3

Seduce me with a 
Melody I've never heard
Before you voiced it

Siren

Body relegated
To Rubens
Admired once
Well before my time
And nowadays glossed over
But a voice
A voice
A voice like silk
Saturated in scarlet
A siren
A secret weapon
Sliding between your
Skin and bones
Breaking bloodlines
 

Leap

Go ahead and count
On your fingers
Count out loud
All the ways
That I fall short
Of the mark
That I fall outside
Of the traps
That I fall away
From the world
Go ahead and count
On your fingers
Count out loud
All the ways 
That you are repulsed
By me 
All the ways
That you have swallowed
The scam 
All the ways 
That we are afriad
Of one another
We are only
One brave step 
Away from bliss
Go ahead and count
Down
We jump on
Three

4/4

He played common time
Crotchets evenly 
Spaced, beige
And so my
Syncopated sixteenths
Spectral hieroglyphs
Just didn't fit
In with his
Plan so 
I reeled in my 
Funk chorus
To a cadence
And 
Flew
Right back to the
Other side of
The rainbow

June Haiku #2

I expect you to
Worship beyond the standard
Notion of beauty

Processing

Automaton woman
Rewiring my circuitry
To avoid sparks
On contact
Ejecting memory banks
Of his touch
Coding myself 
Away from the old

June Haiku #1

Salt into the wound
As if I had forgotten
Being named ugly

Want Me

As thirsty as I am
I will never 
Sip on you again
Not after you left
Me high and dry
Not after you went
And filled in the
Gaps made by me
With another

And I wonder
If she feels lonely
Around you
I wonder
If you let her cry
On her own
Running your words
Around and around and
Around until
She's stuck in sadness

And I wonder
Why you want me
Back again
And whether you
Truly thought I'd
Fall for the
Same old lies
The overtired
The tried too many
Times 
Excuses masking
Deviant desires

And I wonder
Why you keep on
Calling me calling me
Calling me leaving
Pitiful pleas
For attention
With no mention
Of how you 
Let us fall away
From connection

As hungry as I am
I will never
Take another
Mouthful of you
Not after you
Let me starve
As you hand fed
Another the fruits
Of my heart