Before there were languages People were united in the holy moment The gravity wells of intersecting planes Of observer consciousness But I would have taught you names of things Then you could reveal to me The name of the boy you liked The chords you wanted me to play So you could sing along with them Sing all about the yellowbirds Persephone, you...Learn More

You did everything right So it hurts to see you suffer so terribly Was it all sincere? Or did you feel caged by propriety? Don’t let your smile Be flattened by your anxieties You made everything right I miss the space that you inhabited Not the place I’m stuck in now You drowned the radio Made this town almost livable I longed to tell you But my...Learn More

Would you open up your heart? Let me walk into your world And tear it apart All these pictures on the walls Of imaginary lives we discard What I once called love Was more than likely just Some chemicals swirling in my brain Somewhere between the bedroom And the empty nursery There expands a muted space A nothingness that feeds On the color of our...Learn More

Creeping in from the halogen mist His alibi is subverted by the door hinges And the smell of smoke and foreign perfume Gripping his denim jacket But tonight his princess sleeps In another castle Sunlight is our common enemy It exposes our sins and the ugly textures Of the walls that confine us Despite the distance between us The dishes stay...Learn More

Summer was a green and dizzy walk I made a universe from shades of orange And children's dialogues All folded up and occupying space On complementary sensory planes If it doesn't make sense at all Then you didn't miss anything at all Life is a drunk ferris wheel Bowing in porcelain prayer With its head filled with morning glory wine The Irishman...Learn More

Persephone, Persephone With sparrows nesting in your cavities How your father longs to see You playing in a basket made of reeds Instead of just floating In a stillborn sea with Christmas wreaths Persephone, Persephone With feathers threaded through your ear How your mother wants you to be Splashing in a bathtub filled with teeth Instead of...Learn More

Just checking might cause Your keys to be lost Just looking back Will make your lover collapse Stovepipe hat apparitions Superpositioned on a microscope slide Age sixteen A quantum suicide machine Curiosity killed The cat in his box Now he walks through the walls Made of chaos, he is able and stable and all There is something sinister About the...Learn More

When I get home the key won’t turn the lock The tumblers will rattle but none of them will drop So I’ll stand in the yard like a grandfather clock With a cracked eroded face telling the wrong time And two useless hands frozen at my side Pointing straight down, down, down That’s where I’m gonna go Straight down, like my hands already know When I get...Learn More

Maybe someday they will find a cure For the thoughts that I have What I wouldn’t give for a chance To kill the god that took my little girl away The porcelain museum The happy family exhibit The disowned pictures Could face upright again I hope that there’s a heaven So I can be with you someday Chasing sparrows through burning fields And I won’t be...Learn More