vaulted
sweet reverie beyond walls so high
i Pierce the heavens yet not the top of that precipice
halted
steps burnt in ant-like lines become a bonfire at its foot
jump!
i dare not mock Majesty with triviality
though climb through seven layers
I’d dip in fatigue
unprepared
this brick
this wood
this cemented monstrosity
aye, I am but man
and death a door i cannot leap
though burst my hands in pleasing strikes
and pleading
yet
so quick thy hand did pass through

fog to thy touch
cobbled rock
how this trick of mist
which i twist
solid
contends a ghost
you’ve ever been

Deep water lines
Swallowed up the bridge lines
learning you like butter and sour cream on your potato
as the waters rise
the unimportant bits and bites
make me wealthy in knowledge of you
and it becomes sort of a wisdom
one i will weep at your gravesite
filling everywhere with you

As I bury the day, my heart unblocks
And you limp out
We dance to Billie
I listen past breathless
Saying I can’t breathe I can’t breathe
You’re gone
You’re gone
You’re gone

The unfocused rain
Background to a poetry book
And the shuffling of my daughter in
bed next to me
We digest this type of silence
Braid closer in its blurred accompaniment
Until hunched one over the other
The lights flicker
Go out