My Stories 53
9Whisperings
you scraped your wingspan against my bed.
Poetry: General, K, English, words: 80, favs: 3, 7/3/2006
1On The Riverbank
our tongues were dyed with the tribal patterns of graffiti cavatinas.
Poetry: General, K, English, words: 219, 7/3/2006
1Don't Build Me a Railroad
we can dream, despite the thunder, of pixies and ravens.
Poetry: General, K, English, words: 430, 5/31/2006
2Afternoon Dances
a chameleon and a flower faerie dressed in wrapping paper.
Poetry: General, K, English, words: 198, favs: 1, 5/12/2006
1Blood In The Grass
the lizard-footed race who wore moccasins at sunrise.
Poetry: General, K, English, words: 176, favs: 1, 4/17/2006
1Toga Party
goddesses, bough-anklets shimmering and as ready as wildcats.
Poetry: General, K, English, words: 291, favs: 1, 4/12/2006
Christmas, 1914
the genesis in the trenches of a shattered God.
Poetry: War, K, English, words: 194, favs: 2, 4/5/2006
2After The Exams
we raised our voices with blank stanzas of grapevines and champagne.
Poetry: General, K, English, words: 321, 3/19/2006
4Timeline
that a cappella renaissance love-chant could not be kept hidden in this perspex world.
Poetry: General, K, English, words: 248, favs: 1, 2/22/2006
1Almanac
I would have those gala-spirited, ruby-spangled hallucogenics discolour and die.
Poetry: General, K, English, words: 217, 2/19/2006
3The Park Keeper's Hut
the curving outlines of bulrushes smeared across the sacramental flushing of the West.
Poetry: General, K, English, words: 166, 1/23/2006
4Removing The Anchors
it's the same signposts every step of the way: seventy, falling rocks, cattle crossing, no hard shoulder for fifty yards.
Poetry: General, K, English, words: 316, 1/14/2006
4The Memoirs Of Vincent James Grey
a million nights I have stared at the view or the ceiling and listened to the faint refrains of La Boheme.
Poetry: General, K, English, words: 558, favs: 2, 1/6/2006
2The Plot
ghost men lean out of windows and cough up tiaras and cigarette-edged wolf-whistles.
Poetry: General, K, English, words: 144, 12/16/2005
2Poseidon
before you became its deity, with sharp bones piercing your translucent skin.
Poetry: General, K, English, words: 136, favs: 3, 12/7/2005
1Nocturne
Your peace turned turbulent, and a carousel of forlorn prayer hung in the air like unwanted pearls.
Poetry: General, K, English, words: 642, favs: 2, 11/25/2005
4The Man Who Sold Irises
A downtrodden Sunday – Market Day, and as usual that forbidding kiosk biodegrades.
Poetry: General, K, English, words: 230, favs: 1, 11/7/2005