christy

"Between our houses, the grand mimosa wraps in a newly blushed boa, her scent making drunkards of the insects. Soon I will be unable to see the asylum you have named "home". I will not see him wearin..."

"I knew even thenwhen our connection was embryonic,you offering love gratis and a tangle of berries twined round your fingersI would surrender to youreyes, oceans the color of truthrocking and lulling ..."

"Victim to birds, starfish, andsnails who drill with fiendishtongues to suck your innards.They never know the magicharbored in those gray walls,where drops of moon are spun to riches from yoursuffering..."

"Fruit of woman conjuring beauty in second skin, enticing lovers to peel the layers and squeeze pulp to fine wine. Even Eve had a fig leaf. Written November 29th, 2001 © on Nov 29 2001 02:31 AM PST ..."

"Here we chose to root ourselves, where sun and shadow pepper rich earth, where grass is more than a crack in the asphalt; My children will grow free of the city's black fist that plucks morals like f..."

"These quiet nights when you fall to slumber in grottos of silent pleasure, starlight filtering through tattered blinds to freckle your skin, I lie awake drunk with moon and the fluid lines of your f..."

"This morning a doe grazedwith her fawnby the roadside.Her wide, dark eyesbarely lifted as mycar sped round the curve.Fear did not ripplethe lean muscles of her form.No, she seemed almost comfortablefe..."

"His hands are always busy telling the story of man, deep white lines spitting blood, as they shake and scream of 70 hour work-weeks draining him like a leaky basin. His hands are weathered tires s..."

"The sun is mango lava flowing down a purple cone. Darkness wakes to peer through ten thousand blinking eyes. Evening's scent descends, moving wolf and owl to sing as Luna strokes their heads with s..."

"I want to be opened wide so that these bones may know the warmth of a red sun. I want to be as wild and free as the Mississippi wind rushing through golden fields. I want to be a whisper of rain fal..."

"Night scatters its silver seeds as I listen to the slowing of your breath, relieved that you are sleeping, not speaking, not touching. Like a gutted tree sucked dry by all the years, my heart lies he..."

"Memory is soft earth collecting the footprints of every love, every tear, every friendship, and every loss moving through us, and tonight I see your shoes are muddy again. Written December 4th, 2001 ..."

"Another hot southern day. Logging trucks creep from a thick tangle of woods lugging unarmed giants to papermill graves. No one ever misses them except maybe the martins who've moved to gutted gourd h..."

"(for my sister) Upon passing you in town, words lay dead in our throats. Only the darkness round your eyes spoke of nights when you can't find sleep in cruets or little pills, when stillness is..."

"Watching silently as you speak is peering into a lifeless aquarium uselessly decorated with many shiny whatnots; beautiful, shallow, and empty as a summer sky. I didn't come to get wet. I just want ..."

"Bound in winter's somber oubliette, naked trees shiver and wave their bony arms in vain at a narcoleptic sun, while we are nestled inside, lazy as kittens, sipping warmth beneath 100 watts. Writte..."

"The late sky is warm, blushed like naked shoulders beneath gorging eyes. Soon night will emerge, stretch, and hover as a butterfly discarding the golden cocoon. wings glossy with the blood of time w..."

"(in loving memory of my days as a psych tech at the state hospital) I met my other side today. She said, "Life is easy when you just don't give a shit". (I think we're gonna be good friends) She s..."

"He pops the top on another beer still marinating in last night's urine. Sweat beads on his brow like seeping venom, and he takes another sip of the child support he never intended to send ...wonderi..."

"Fate is a moody bitch, giving you to me , taking you, giving you, taking you. You are always within me rising and burning like tears that never surface. Funny how everything has turned bittersweet w..."

"9:00pm. The virago is dead and solace lives on a moon slathered bench hours after this house spins madness like tornados whirling shards of sound from children, appliances, and television till ..."

"I see mischief dancing behind your lids, round the curl of your lips; latent yearnings turned plunderous in my company. I breathe. Your scent slakes my senses. You are spicy winter rain endlessly sl..."

""The Gift" Lightless fallen sky absent of embellishment gave stars to your eyes. "Evolution of a Secret" Whispers fall on lobes, thoughts now something tangible. Lovers exchange warmth. Written De..."

"Inky demon cloud becomes the dominatrix sucking flesh from bone. Written December 18th, 2001 © on Dec 18 2001 12:29 AM PST   0 • 10"

"He lay still, snoring, so she tried to leave again. Blood is on his hands. Written December 18th, 2001 © on Dec 18 2001 02:51 AM PST   18 • 0 • 1"

"Now that you've supped on all my thoughts, tasting each one's flavor, which ones did you choke upon? Which ones did you savor? Perhaps the salt of wasted tears still lingers at the edges, or bitterne..."

"Just standing there blowing smoke rings without a care in the world; cigarette dangling between chipped nails and daisies in her eyes. She breathed contented sighs. Weathered sandals strapped on her f..."

"When the sparrow sings atop my headstone, will my face, your mind still see? When the worms have burrowed through these cold bones, will you still remember me? When the years pass by and these days ..."

"You said: 'Look beyond these many faults, scrape the ugliness away. Reach inside to find the man who only looks this way. Peel back the insensitivity, dig past the selfish lies'. So, these things I..."

"Sleep my child and make this a time for sweet release. Bathe in the warmth of bubbling dreams and recapture some peace. Taste the feast of tranquil darkness laid upon your table. Free yourself to f..."

"She peered through a wisp of lace curtains to find him floating aimlessly across the water. His feet dangled carelessly over the boat's edge, a sliver of sugar cane hanging from his lip. The morning s..."

"Sheet engulfed in flames orange tongues learning her flesh; no one hears her scream. Written January 2nd, 2002 © on Jan 02 2002 05:27 AM PST   0 • 10"

"Dandelion fuzz caught in the breath of morning falls like summer snow. Written January 2nd, 2002 © on Jan 02 2002 07:09 AM PST   0 • 10"

"(for the sister who is much wiser now) Morning sifts over the room, blinding raylets void of warmth infect a vacant bed, where only hours ago he lay bare and breathless, candleflame conjuring shad..."

"Lies are your wicked children. They crawl from your pretty mouth to maim and claw and pound my skull till I'm crushed to heaps of ashy bone. Did my eyes ask too much? Did I summon them here to murd..."

"Night is a sadist, growling and writhing; a hungry lover who opens herself across the heavens,  where colors meld and blur into a darkly painted fresco looming overhead like a restless vulture. E..."

"The clock chimes midnight. You haven't made it home and sirens blare nearby. Written January 4th, 2002 © on Jan 04 2002 01:54 AM PST   0 • 1"

"He played his music with thick fingers while the skinny children danced in the streets like wild stick figures shaking in the wind. Even the rain hushed to hear his song. Passersby tossed change unt..."

"Sometimes when I ache, when I fall face-first into the ass of anger, thoughts gush passed my teeth drowning ghosts. My voice is wind whipping flame, earthdark tongue cracking stone. I speak the word..."

"2 bodies connect. 4 hands now squeeze and tease, but 6 eyes are blinking. Written January 9th, 2002 © on Jan 09 2002 07:13 AM PST   0 • 10"

"(for Skylar) I am swallowed up in the belly of his love, fuel to the blue flame licking sclera, the one possession he can never seem to share. I am the watermelon slicer.My son's two favorite thing..."

"Sun teases winter. The foolish daisies peek and lose their tiny heads. Written January 10th, 2002 © on Jan 10 2002 08:29 AM PST   0 • 10"

"You clot the veins of a gray world where bones won't bend and blood knows no apology, where remorse is vague and wakeless, and fear is a shiny tool. You are an evil child with a begging cock, you..."

"Damn machine's broken again, yeah, ain't that a bitch, gotta wash my unmentionables with strangers, the very thought just makes me itch. It's kind of like a circus, you'll see freaky things down..."

"They said I should have died the day you swallowed breath for the first time, should have withered in my red puddles, should have been cold as the tiles in the hospital floor. I remember glancing ..."

"(for our little Courtney Marie) I'm not there anymore, Aunt christy I'm right here...don't you see, sitting in the hand of God. You shouldn't cry for me. He came to take me while I napped so I ..."

"Fingertips on brass; Saxophone eyes blink a mad breathless melody. Written January 15th, 2002 © on Jan 15 2002 02:49 AM PST   0 • 10"

"Hazy white moonglow smothers mountains with a kiss; silent paradise. Written January 15th, 2002 © on Jan 15 2002 05:58 AM PST   0 • 10"

"We have been displaced by the inertia of marriage, walking on unsalted ice as if immune to gravity. Fleshwarm union, uninteresting as a virgin's diary, sits staring blankly with it's tongue sliced out..."

"Anger left your voice along with love and passion. There is nothing left. Written January 16th, 2002 © on Jan 16 2002 06:00 AM PST   18 • 0 • 1"

"you said..... goodbye with as much warning as if you'd pulled the grenade pin and yelled, "RUN!". it was the shock of being set afire in your sleep, sentenced to death without a trial. but ..."

"When the sky grows thick and muddy and the bitter chill wraps you in a thin sheet of needles... they come. Like little diseases with soft feet and growling bellies, they infect the shadows of my hou..."

"last night we sucked dry the liquid moon  with our eyes and skin and tongues till we gasped neath the silk of darkness. glowing and giddy, you gave to me your gifts of freedom and blank pages for r..."

"the doctor said for seventy three dollars i can inject you with darkness, fashion and paste you a silly smile and empty eyes to greet him with, but you'll need a driver to transport you to your own b..."

"Shock of neon pink burning shadowed sky; a perfect backdrop for nearing vultures mad with the stench of bleeding. Closer and closer they come; ravenous hunger flaming their eyes. Whip of inky feat..."

"funny how the slightest detail never escapes you. i think that's why you loved me and maybe why you left me too. but, last night you quizzed me relentlessly about strange tire tracks in the mud-so..."

"each year the body of the oak knows another ring, wider than the one before, a symbol of increasing thirst and wisdom sucked from soils. he is the dark fruited king pendulous with grace, courting a..."

"wanted to touch you as you slept curled, unshowered, still wrapped in wrinkled work clothes. wanted to whisper something unforgettable, draw focus, shock you into love again, wanted to break some..."

"february exhales, settles against the house where plain brown panneling muffles those sugar-sad notes, music others attribute to tempermental winds, groaning timber, cats stretching their lea..."

"You were the first born, a slave, a babysitter, an excuse, but never a child. You were a whipping post, a sharpening stone, a reflection of your father's failure, but never a child. At six you chopp..."