Undefined eyes of some mirthless blue;
Intentions unknown and Summerless pursuit:
Imagined only through a curtain's gape,
Past city limits iced with dope and rape.
...
last night
i laid in bed
dead metaphors
bred chaos in my head
...
say i was
a cadaver,
(heart still somehow pulsing,
...
“oh to love a flower
who bows down powerless,
to meet a maiden unscathed
by another honey’s trailing touch,
...
i said
how the trees
look so beautiful
in the coming of winter
...
I was a deer
I
stretched out my legs
and leapt
...
i wear a hulking, sodden sadness like
a wet fur coat, a generation of drenched, dead
ferrets draped heavily around my frame.
i walk with it through a foggy field while snow
...
bare paper eyed me, naked
and shaking, still
much less uneasy than i,
...
i began
insignificant and small;
brainless as an egg,
my tongue clumsily trying to tie
...