sacrament

redemption

core

This is a companion piece to "Kore" below.

Kore

coffee shop of my dreams

boyishly

vegetable state of rubies found and worms
try thy beauty slow-chapt
Flood my conversion two hundred empires slow;
state your heart, my back to languish
embrace the private am'rous pore
nor would I love
dust and deserts the tide to stand still
sweetness
try every part to gaze on eternity
echoing which way the ashes
would complain.

fragments: a work in process

the truce of objects sates me
between care and capture

affixed three digits
no deeper
sighed and twined

a conceit sensibly weak
put upon by words
frets and cowers in
sweete misprision

curious to sing, bright wire
a species of melancholy ails us
pass'd over in silence

culminating in newsprint

pity me but do not
speak

31.5

redeem odious
not another her here
to break fibers swaying
stalling

magnificent guile to gild an
other meant

in time and time again

done to by time
your I frays
the phrase that tempts

space and time
insignificant

consequence

spent sated miracle
loosed and careless

no dead but our own
myth

and yet

I shake my head in wonder
at my own soft cruelty
as flesh renders

will wounds accrete and
carve thought from care?

rather the mercy of
no more
than that

but stay
nonetheless