Shorts

I would tell you
how I have seen
the vanishing tenderness
of this world -

how it is not yet extinct,
as they would have us believe.

 

 

I am on the floor now
because that is where
I want to be

when I change my mind
I will pick myself up 

it won’t be the first time 

you know that

I have done this
many times

do not worry 

down here is just
where I need to be
right now

sunk and
alone

consoling myself
amid the wreckage
of better days

 

 

Would you know what I meant if I told you I’ve been walking backwards my whole life?

 

Babe, they got their hooks in you

and I know
you like it

 

 

 

 

The ripples on the water
tell you where the spirits tread.

Sleepless minds and loveless eyes
are cursed to mingle with the dead.