Dilionn

"Even after all this time these things I remember entering our room finding it dark save for a single sunbeam falling across your body stark contrast against the black sheet even now I can smell grap..."

"In that crowded hall it sounds so cliche but the glitter in your smoky eyes made me forget everything nights spent laughing crying, cutting eating dreams and drinking despair I will never forget when..."

"it began s l o w l y self-protection gone awry let hope fall away beauty is pain trust nothing salt the earth until love can't live pain and fear and joy compressed into dull grey vacuum sometimes I ..."

"if I'd known noticed the obvious transparently fatal decisions, actions, words maybe... maybe... too late. time is a treadmill can't walk backward cure the wounds already inflicted unravel a tape..."

"I am a marionette the puppeteer's dead I hang inert strings tangled over the shadowy rafter hollow, wooden eyes to the hardwood quiet stage dust settling in my painted hair I long for someone to twitc..."

"when she left I climbed into this little box closed the lid blotted out the sky so I wouldn't see her face in the stars in glittering twilight hear her voice birdsong on an ocean breeze feel her lip..."

"heartbeat thrumming silent flutter lashes brush tender moon-pale flesh oceanic rhythm rosewater blood infrared telegraph whispers direction guides me, trembling to the mouth of flowersOk, this is a pi..."

"I remember when we were young love-blind never let  little things like two years two thousand miles incommunicado stop us do you still remember? I called you payphone on the 'Ave freshly arrived fr..."

"break the window slip catlike into haunted halls desperate domicile for radicals runaways, rebels simple fools wry jokes creep past the skeletons empty iron walls swirling scent of grave dust ancien..."

"yeah, I see you like some lothario whispering promises telling me you'll make it all better if I'll just trust you you'll give me peace release from all this bullshit but the brass gives you away I kn..."

"you must have asked yourself a thousand times what you saw in that angry man from mizzou rawboned and never weaned, sucking death from a glassine teat, raging vengeance for some long-forgotten child..."

"simply to inspire memory and woven words immortalized museOk, um...as you may have noticed, I NEVER write in any set form. Therefore as a challenge to myself I've written a haiku. I think I'll stick..."

"you were a paragon a perfect rebel causes need not apply beautifully careless unconcerned, wild and free you made us feel alive there in the old foundry sleeping on the quarterpipe up all nigh..."

"I sleep and in dreams you come you dance with me I breathe you in absorb you into me I hold your body you cradle my spirit like a hummingbird but when I exhale eyes unwilling flutter open I watch, h..."

"tonight we spoke after decades or was it days? breathless addlebrained stunned beyond words so much I planned to say my clumsy words trampling one another emotional stampede both trembling with ecst..."

"sitting here twitching chomping on orange flavored but not masked cigarette-butt gum hands like puppies roaming over everything desperate for ACTION maybe just cut my own eyes out with a plastic kni..."

"at -last- longed-for touch we are set alight with phoenix flame reborn in the flesh our eyes meet love-warmth swirled passion-spark a sly smile, you lean your head back I taste desire on your lush l..."

"i don't understand what kind of person takes net in hand to "collect" a butterfly only a corrupt soul could abduct bright-winged living treasure press it in a book metamorphosed, flattened into a lif..."

"tee vee preacher spins lies to his fold sleazy simoniac screaming about ssssssssssssssin pounds his Book autotheistic avatar demanding tithes to his personal God hollow promises of prayers for remiss..."

"saying goodbye long decade heartbreak and high every emotion relived as I sift through detritus of a life wasted memories shoved into black plastic bags praying the future isn't another illus..."

"night terrors in waking hand of shadow grips my ankle ball and chain boogeyman of my own creation this hill is too steep hauling that weight mule for discontent climbing toward the sun etching dim pi..."

"last night in my long time home staring at snow tv has deserted me listen to old songs drink cheap beer perforated with my lucky lager church key pretending ten years never happened daydreaming abou..."

"snowblind living in a crystalline haze reflections of reflections your smile in the corner of my eye elusive but always always there keeps me sane icy wind howling through my straw limbs I feel yo..."

"Oakland silver-grey sky reflects from broken buildings rotted sea pregnant moon hanging like a tick sucking the life from ghetto poets destitute dreamers angry youth wasted green hills scorched blac..."

"my orphan heart lives inside you it will not come home until you rest in my arms whispering, it will haunt you with gentle sighs speaking in daydreams until you rest safe in arms that tremble incredu..."

"good night my baby sister straw-haired angel, never got a chance to do wrong learn life beyond a little town little boyfriend little time you had nature cannot abide one so pure in heart if not i..."

"aching all-consuming more than simply desire echoes of a sound not yet made phantom pain of a limb long since severed brush my lips with spirit kisses soothing to fevered flesh return, end my achingfi..."

"I wake open eyes and spy you a sleepy smile reach out stroke your cream-soft cheek entwine wandering fingers in your liquid-gold hair you turn your back against my chest my arms enfold you ..."

"she sits quiet waiting for him to come back to her prison throw her a crust of sex a cup of cruelty at least it's attention he tells her it's love and she starts to believe him thinks she's fucking up..."

"Cheyenne cowboys roam Wyoming skies arctic howl rushes lifts titanium glitter frigid dust devils yellow light spills from late-night diner the hound has run too far stands breathless sucked dry and p..."

"she lives inside me setting up house under my leaky roof inside the scarred walls of a battered heart touching me only in dreams longing beyond comprehension mine, in all the ways that matter I'm stup..."

"come with me let me enfold your fragile hand lead you along white sand under conch-pink sky chase the surf back into the sea run, laughing, from its counterattack fall softly into the soft beach bed ..."

"my love for her is a damask rose the sable death-time of my empty heart illuminated by her argent soul lifted trembling from amaranth despair the lupine depths long covering me fade hyacinth memory f..."

"shattered angel in a cage wings bruised so many times she fears the very thought of spreading them wide to take flight tear-swollen eyes blind her she can't see her walls are glass I stand outside, th..."

"it's hard to believe what a few hours can do your echoes still in my mind I'll see you again but when? I never knew what pain missing you could cause our love remains and this is what I wanted I'm hap..."

"I'm on the outside unable to scream watching your choices like a slow-motion car crash wondering will you swerve or will you fly through the windshield and smear our future across his cruel white-line..."

"Where have ye gone, Setanta?  This fine old woman weeps for her son, Ye stood proud and alone, O wild hound, In the age before Éire was one. How left ye home, Setanta? Longing from birth to wage war..."