Category archive: Vespertine Excursions

envious pane of pain inflicted
traducing threads woven by wombs
& I had once abnegated the untoward dissension

…but I now mark my recalescent words
- in a frisson of an etch
suffusing my breath upon the glass; smiling
from outside the prison at your awry reflection

my spittle becomes crude chalk
– blatantly masturbating
against the blackboard of your mind

(..braying broken -
unspoken thoughts…)

flaying open wounds as I had once
permitted the suede privates
of your birth-ridden deterioration
to enter this Temple of mine

plaguing my already torporific soul
with the vertigo of pulse
– but having graduated now
I lay here on your abandoned shores

(on the brink
of erasure…)

had the lids been sewn shut
it would be respite enough so to speak
wandering Barzakh surreals; in manner of culture

yet the sealing wax
(now encrusting my farewell envelopes)
crumples with the rustic rousing

my glazed vision lays heavy on
a one soft & battered bedmate
the one felicitous enough to have been – sewn

flung against off-white walls; off-limits
only to be subsequently coddled in propitiation
(could you not have been a some one other…?)