poetry

This little flicker It just refuses to Be extinguished It jumps and dances Soars and falls And some days I can go hours without Your name crossing my mind Emerging from my lips Cutting through […]

In a dream like fugue I descended those stairs Into hashish smoke Your tears Your pain Head, heart and body To hold and be held by you The purest joy The elated heartbeat of the […]

That day I realized That the core source Of the deep pain of separation Was that you had The exact same vocal pitch As my father That months of hearing you speak Behind me Next […]

If you looked inside This head I have tried To completely and utterly forget you No matter the time Memories sublime Unexpected love that was made anew The distance and space Won’t clear or erase […]

The clanging horn sounds again His robes tattered Scythe rusty He knows this sterilized place well Pay the toll on the River Styx Two blocks to the left Elevator to the sixth floor He watches […]

Somewhere tonight The sea enfolds you In a deep sleep Or an insomniac’s nightmare The stormy horizon Reminding you of that shellfish bay That the little boy called home The liquid fluidity of New York […]