J. James Martinez Poems

I don't know
now
how
I am to be
...

i embrace your death
with a mournful catching of breath

the razorwire net i lived above
...

Midst my
Colorless castle
I sit and dream
Scenes
...

In the early morning hours
Through the silence and sleep
We spoke
...

Let me kiss your
Bellybutton
Nibble on your triceps
And kiss your elbows
...

On the broken wings
Of my being

From the shallow gasps
...

I am past trying to mend
Picking up the broken pieces of self esteem
Off the broken ground
There they can rest
...

We all know it doesn’t take much
To blind a fool
That fool on the bench
The fools around the shops
...

the rope seems a lot shorter
from my new vantage point
it's getting harder
to maneuver
...

hesitant
reticent
ambivalent
intimate
...