Firebird

1

I watched his steady breathing
in the dim diffusive light.

I felt as his fevered body
radiated fury, burning on

dated woe, and warmed
myself beside it there.

2

T…

love, how like that firefly,
That plunges down behind the brush
And tries to set the air to blaze.

Then just as quickly flees
To the shelter of the higher sky
And disappears as though …

He drove into the service bay just as I was locking the door from the inside to close for the night. I could see him, blonde and shirtless, wiping his entire face: pale with patches of bright …

It was like the earth had grieved at evening—
With subtle movements too and forth;
Like a mother rocking with her child, and later,
Alone and on the ground in unbelief.

The thunder outsi…

The reverends spoke like men persuaded
Without distress, with childish faith.
And they asked me to see it as a part
Of something larger than his life.

Still I thought I’d known better; …

See how the old man laughs at his labour
As he finds the foxglove, ripe,
Within the yet-green gardens’ mesh.

See how it bids its gardener to rest—
With noxious, toxic, bells that ring.
S…

As though they were unaware of the virtue inside.

“Come now to me that lucid eyes might view—”
He screams while echoes bound, excogitating
Their response.

Across and down the Gaston railroad tracks
Dwells he, who from the first igniting spark,
Possessed me and beseeched me: “come and see.”

Can anything of worth come from such state?
(Betwee…

We:

In our sufficient apartment
With our six-inch-tall
White Ceramic Heater

Inhabiting our paradise
In our perfect world;

There should be rest,
With your body warming
Mine

As …

I know not where you lay tonight,
Or where you rest your head.
Nor whether you, in life or death,
Exist upon this earth.

I know not why in promises
You gave your word in vain.
Nor wher…

friend of mine i love you
like no other ever will
i held you as though you
had never been held.

when i saw you
you were dejected and alone
water filled my eyes as
though i had not s…

When last the lighthouse light had shown
And slow and steady pulses guided
Ships upon the sea

The phantom graced the Capitan’s hands
As waves which tear the sands
Like a cold jet of wat…

His shaking hands caught my attention immediately as he approached from the front door. He leaned across my counter and described the symptoms.
I listened, diagnosed, and hurried away to get …

You took that which was not yours to take…