what happens in the space betweenwithin the tiny dots connecting timemoving us from one second to the next what happens in the overridewhen addiction surpasses reasonmaking the body bow down to unholy gods a fervor arrives in rapid descentdriving the fork in and out, up and downfaster and faster and faster until suddenly–!it is tooContinue reading “the ghosts of yesteryears (poem)”
Category Archives: Poems
and delay, they say (poem)
like water like raini have the reasons whybut it still does not make sense to mesuch fear and disdain stuffed into one tiny body and braini do not know how i ended up hereand i do not know what is ahead or what will remain so many times i have scraped the bottomand thought yesContinue reading “and delay, they say (poem)”
nobody knows but me (poem)
the new day shrugs its shoulders at mei fill up on coffee and emptinessto shake off the ghosts from last night i limp through conversations with my lips tightly shut(God forbid the fear slips out or someone sees my teeth)and i set my watch by the reliefi plan to find that evening and when littleContinue reading “nobody knows but me (poem)”
running shoes (poem)
i am never full but always about to explodethese imaginings still haunt me, decades laterit seems impossible it has not resolvedit seems impossible that it could have beenthe sages tell me i cannot think my way into right action–all the studying cannot help me nowbut if i just choose to put one foot forwardthe otherContinue reading “running shoes (poem)”
deciphering truth (poem)
if God wants us to ask questionsthen i have come to the right place my head swarms with a reel of scripturesi cannot translate or understand through time and spacethere have been hundreds of right answers deciphering truth is a full-time joband like sand on an ocean floorit shifts and moves 20,000 leagues beneath myContinue reading “deciphering truth (poem)”
Tasting Freedom 