Tonight the loneliness is like cold black oil
Seeping slowly through the cracks and crevices of her heart
Without warmth it will turn hard
...
The last Christmas card came in the mail
the car insurance company
wishes me a safe and Happy New Year
appreciates my business.
...
I'll come with
I had tried it on my own
Never took me back and
I don’t like waiting in lines
...
I know that sound
The dark one
That comes in dreams
The slow but steady beat
...
Go and see the friend
That made you laugh and cry
He is bleeding dry
He is bleeding dry
...
He has rolled with the punches
You can see the marks on his back
Where he landed on rock while he rolled
...
Alvaro from the sea
Kindness and love
His teeth white as bone
Skin dark as dirt
...
The old young man
Picking the last crumbs
On the plate
Content in the belly
...
Tonight
Tonight the loneliness is like cold black oil
Seeping slowly through the cracks and crevices of her heart
Without warmth it will turn hard
Turn to coal
Her hope is that one day
Some future anthropologist
Will dig and chisel and break apart
The heart
To find the primitive hieroglyphics,
the fossils of crustacean and fern,
And catalog the undeveloped embryo of dreams