5 sense traveler

The atoms of your passage
still float in the air
hours
after you depart
I caress them on your chair
drink them in my coffee
breathe deeply
to keep you here with me
one second more

The life, tomorrow

At 5AM
my sins and I
lie in intimacy
face to face on the pillow
heads touching
as we fall into
the cleansing grace of sleep

dilettante

wisdom lies
in the delicate tracery of bones.
this hook
will snatch you from your life
and drop you
stunned and unprotected,
gasping for air
amongst the eaters of your kind.
their heads raise their
soundless sightless alarm
as I rush breathlessly
towards my fate.

support

weakened and
broken twice
the vessel
holds valiantly
against its'
ever-present nature
to give way
under steady pressure

cicada

no offer refused,
I am feeling generous today.
Anything of mine you want is yours
for the taking. I am leaving this all behind
safe harbor and home
splitting through the back
and easing out brand new
resting as I contemplate
life as a new winged creature

vertigo

your secret
has been revealed.
too late to bluster
and stumble through the motions
as if you belonged here. the jig is up.
you finally breathe deep, grateful
to leave it all
in the freedom
of the trajectory
downward