by phoenix | Feb 20, 2003 | Poetry, Uncategorized
i want to write about us, about intimacy about intensity and misunderstanding i want to sob uncontrollably in your safety but you are not there i rub at my elbows loose skin and wistfulness wonder about the future dwell on the soft comma...
by phoenix | Jan 31, 2003 | Poetry, Uncategorized
Aged fifteen I dream of mushroom clouds and blinding light tracing bone skeletons in ash on footpaths. Every night I burn like a shaking monk like a 9‑year-old napalm-backed like a woman like a wife. Every night my...
by phoenix | Nov 17, 2002 | Poetry, Uncategorized
I am mired in tendrils of regret Borne of moments and cold midnights Drunken decisions and bad sex. I read ‘daddy’ in the bath In the silent pre-dawn Curls of steam vying With death and depression. Sylvia, your edges are Translucent as...
by phoenix | Nov 11, 2002 | Poetry, Uncategorized
i want toledo to be my mississippi river i will come back to her over and over call her beloved whisper her name in the night wrap myself in her darknesses caress her there in the evenings under the moon wade in her...
by phoenix | Sep 5, 2002 | Poetry, Uncategorized
for Emilie Zoey Baker (EZB), after hearing her perform Sweet Cowboy with Sean M Whelan she’s honey warm, liquid, mellifluous i want to drown in her golden intensity if i could get my tongue unstuck i’d tell her she’s poured into...
by phoenix | Jul 21, 2002 | Poetry, Uncategorized
do i know you from somewhere? your hand in mine sudden like a memory your bright eyes, clear as crisp days I am caught in a loop of three moments in your office on my couch and long ago in a forest “it still feels odd to shake...
