seats in the air

repose and furious barking fountain
when can i control
what i've said

this is the wooden floor
of a house
bleak corridors painted
to match my indifference.

i hope to keep it quiet here,
think of padding the walls

foundation of light
world that i touched
parched patterns,
the fraying of daydreams
spinning empires shuffle
and a world full of collapsing
lungs...

all at once.

puffing out our chests again,
pulling power back in.
airing out indifference,
tried testaments of sand and salt, suppers and kisses.
more originals
and the heartache of resounding realization... revealed reflection
another night in my skin armor.
trust of days
trust of sun
trust i'll awaken again
beneath this world
seeing into the next one.

bells that creep and shook my hand

don't let it stay
oh taller trees
and the way things disappear
waves
when we were leaving
we didn't let it stay
in our beating bellies
oh regret and codewords
for disappointment
and loneliness

I've gone phonetic

parched partition
graceful vision and the beyond
arch of sunlight
mysteries in windshields
clouds and swarms

in the quiet
with the ghosts
and blankets
when you whispered about
the things that made you

before we'd died
when everything was new

i'd taken a photograph
arch of sunlight
stretched the colors i'd collected
and someone called it ruin
and someone saw the words
i'd meant to write
stole them
made them his own
and later i'd find them
turn him to stone.

unexploded ordnance

testing the waters
testing the waters
john waters
sylvia newton john
my uncle john
watercloset
man with a horse