by phoenix | May 6, 2003 | Poetry, Uncategorized
one day you will move cities and we won’t know each other well enough for you to tell me one day you will encounter me in the streets with a young child and be saddened that you didn�t know I’d had her. One day I will drive past some street that we...
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 of a penis curled on a thigh...
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 screams etch white-hot runnels onto eyelids that...
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 lampshades. You are my mirror,...
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 dampnesses suckle under her fruiting branches...
