Definition of Insanity
It happened again,
An unwelcomed guest
Crossed paths before
Over and
over again.
Cut, Burn, Bury
Cut, cut, cut
the young girl’s hair falls to the floor.
You ask yourself, who will I be now?
Tickets
Seeing is believing.
A sea of red in a crowd of voices,
people who were once separated.
No One’s Coming to Save You
How very studious of you
How very productive
Pour another glass, tuck yourself in
You have nowhere to go
no one to see
Not in this world
Past Lives
Time starts and stops
and starts to stop
Between the seconds I’ve lived a dozen lives.
Threaded Lips
She speaks and swallows back the words
as soon as they leave her tongue,
a delayed censoring.
A Book Falls
A book falls, I fall.
The proper thing to do is to pick it up, dust it off and hold it close to your heart.
Not me, not this time.
Runaway Swan Song
Although I haven’t climbed these stairs in years
they always sound the same
under my feet,
creak and splinter,
in the same spots.
Insomnia
I only see you in dreams.
Don’t dwell on it
Don’t think about what could have been
Roots
In the middle of a headache
I imagine my nerves are the roots of a tree.
