"night #6"

crickets wring their song
through night's heat
squeezing crooked harmonies
around desperate trees.

aside from that
the air is still...
and hot...
and weak...
ripping at the 
hollow
that was staggered breath.

deprivation
crawls through my veins... --
the stars quite simply
too close...

"alone and..."

in the stillness
there interposed
a fly
on the wall
opposite my bed;
a wall empty
and white
screaming of
nothingness
and i imagine
myself
broken & bent
in his eyes
a multitude
in that void
wandering
in the vacant
silence
that is that fly
twitching
with exhaustion
wanting nothing more
than sleep...


                          6/3/11

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bent
fractured
broken & twisted,
light hangs
from naked fingers
like promises
from a politician.

the storm
has shuffled on
leaving the sun
a little breath
before my rum
chases him
through the trees.

i don't like him,
the sun;

he's too damn happy...

crow haiku

your shadow is swift,
falling drunkard through thunder,
a mere grazing touch.


*     *     *


walking through the grass,
awkward obsidian clown,
worms laugh at your gait.


*     *     *


black simplicity,
strutting murder in the air,
and then the silence...


*     *     *


voices carry death
and dip below horizon...
ice creaks in sweet rum.


*     *     *


in the noon day sun
your iridescent feathers -
oil on virgin snow.