winter threads

with window eyes
razor teeth sharp
captured songs
for the lost
winter threads
trailing off into
tomorrow

encampment

my life
no longer mine
i fade drift through
bright colours flutter
a window to your soul
barefoot tambourine
and wagon wheel

leaves in you hair
sun glow laughter
under flickering
tree shade

seeking coin kiss
myrrh treasure
in grey streak hair
drinking in
the world the world

missing menagerie

hand in hand
with all of the
freaks, spooks & ghouls
a missing menagerie
too quiet
too still

jagged

mad dancing
black sand beaches
ritual driftwood
and ocean ice
you think
this is choice
this neversea
in me
a ragdoll
thrall, spellbound
skree

dew drops

shouting at dew drops
wake her
dragonflies within

forget cores

don't sell me
trinket reality
give me
hard edge racket
screaming molotov
thrown black ramble cars

duluth

out there
on the tarmac
flowers clutched
tight to breast
waiting for
her stars & moon
to land

oldnew

slipping away
dull day doldrum drink-in
wishing popculture
would just leave me
and mine alone

instead:
obligatory coats of
saccharine angeldust
w/powdersugar
force-injected inbetween

they will rubber erase
all graffitied charm away on
this thing too

maybe i need to
trade my name
change my trains
wear a fresh
black beret
and rise up rise up
to vomit up all the
oldnew stuff

undersidewalk

ambling through
veilwashedscratchhaze
raven inventing new swears
hopdancing my shoulder
ghostwraiths weavewalk my calves
a door into summerlands' autumn
everything everything
dream

uncommon

your sour sweat
scent ghosting
bedsheets

a perfume lingering
aching to breathe
you in again