it was here:
you should know
her laughter
once shook
these walls
Searching
They say that Earth is the only planet on which life exists
and I have been looking
for years
but I haven’t found it
yet.
Sometimes
Her eyes would roar with all the colors of the sky.
I can laugh about it now…
and I do
yes, somehow
I can still laugh
and it rings out mean
here
among the stones and stars
there is an edge to it
something savage and
obscene
like a wood chipper
chewing on panes
of stained glass
I try to trap it in my throat
and sometimes do
and sometimes don’t
sometimes there is no helping it,
it climbs those rattling chains
it frightens the people and
most other animals
I tried to paint it,
my terrible laughter
the girl I gave the canvas to
just cried
and cried
I know
that is not very
funny
but it
almost
is.
Summer Rain
All that rain was just the clouds falling in love with the ground.