by phoenix | Sep 24, 1999 | Poetry, Uncategorized
Mercury is lighter than each breath I’m banded by metal pincers Yet strangely I crave pain. I want to crawl into a small Space and be hurt Badly By someone merciless So that I’d feel justified in crying. I’d feel safer Somehow Waiting for...
by phoenix | Aug 7, 1999 | Poetry, Uncategorized
watch me walking down your streets i’m in your veins down there’s the duplex I lived in 9 years ago, deep in your belly, under your skin, damp and cold but carefree. up there’s the terrace where I came back to you and you punished...
by phoenix | Aug 2, 1999 | Poetry, Uncategorized
so, I refuse to tick your box even though I might tickle your fancy. It’s enough. You roughly hand me my coat As you fail to handle my desires. If only it was as easy as that, Simple as I’d ease my fingers Into you — I’m sure you’d...
by phoenix | Aug 1, 1999 | Poetry, Uncategorized
She’s suffocating in the midst of red blown glass each breath shatters silence crazed chaotic edges her balance is delicate, sliding insane she slips into madness and elegant pain You fail to fathom her purposes absurd outbursts and alienation...
by phoenix | Jul 22, 1999 | Poetry, Uncategorized
for jason when I touched your skin you trembled — no other fingertips had fluttered there before you caught your breath tried to still your ragged shaking I stroked your arm and kissed your eyes shut
by phoenix | Jul 17, 1999 | Poetry, Uncategorized
the notes tumble from the gongs swirling around my head, settling on thoughts like stray feathers momentarily until, breeze-like, a cymbal tickles a higher pitch and brushes it onward. Downward, inward. How can music live with The decisions of...
