disintegrate quickly

insomnia carries its weight through  my days dragging my feet  slowing my heart heavy on my eyes  insomnia carries.  grief weighs its way th...

the grimest of reapers doesn't want you dead, for him the satisfaction  lies in your suffering.  a cast of shadows greets you  as you ru...

sitting in the shadow of the rockies it's a long way there.  fog covered mountain, secrets i'd like to leave behind  here in the sha...

it's deliciously messy  when cuts cause blood but not always. i'll ask you to send envoys  from another  threshold, because  however...

write an anthem write a prayer write for the man who is not there.  write real fast but reluctantly  embrace the rhythm  that you feel don...

i choose coffee over love. why not? my heart already  ripped dripping from my chest that night, that night of  a thousand knives. i choose c...

i wake early to watch the clouds as if they were  television. joined by birds incredulous  we sing & we sing in a voice not quite melanc...

it only took a look to turn me into a somebody  done somebody  wrong song, leaving me bleeding roadside in a sentimental  way. we sit throug...

i didn't see it coming when he took my hand on the corner of underdog & vine, heartskip romeo to sweep me off the street. so i didn...

i'm not in the habit of misguided  infatuation, so what i like most is your haunting  storm damage and the easy way  you cover it over  ...

"i'll be there soon" he said a long time ago. i stayed long enough  for a spider to spin a web on me so that she could whisper...

 i'm not in the business  of giving things away  but this frown is free, i made it myself  from found objects so you see it has your nam...

if ever i dreamed of a bleak city this is it. nameless buildings and strip malls with too many signs. the trees are closing shop fo...

they have closed the coffee shop whe you committed suicide, drinking cup after cup after cup of coffee too strong for your heart to hand...

we stay until our shadows grow so long they are almost out of reach. you linger, touch my hand and say "there is just one thi...

i take my safety for granted, like i'm a man or something tall. i rationalise it as calculated risk, but really i'm just play...

looking to the hills we discuss the value of nature, then decide to go there. breathing deeply, hoping this moment is strong enough ...

dark alley daytime where deep humans take refuge from a world too shallow to comprehend. the light doesn't shine here. nothing sh...

we find our happy place park benching with coffee, and although i don't expect it we both start crying. it's not so much the wo...

like something left out of a documentary i hit the road. shale shines like second hand silver beneath my feet & with the wind at...

it's now, or not now but not never. you promised me forever but then you forgot. i understand but i have to think about the burning. did...

developing a habit as easy as falling down. so i make my bed and gnaw the inside of my mouth, lying you myself that this will ever end...

between the scrub and the sea you'll find me. i come here for the calm, the medicinal waves changing the way that i think from cha...

it could have been another woman but it was the wine. the effect was the same, he was absent, vacant, lost to her. everything they buil...

you show me how strong you are and i show you i can take it. there are flaws in our brushstrokes but still the magic happens. and i sho...

the moon looks loosely through the window while i flirt with danger, and the drop. noise turns hollow and crickets weep from the pain ...

i wanna channel jane eyre with the voice of kathryn hepburn. i'd ride an invisible steed and together we would map the bleak landsca...

when she's paying attention she steps on no cracks and every tread has purpose. when she is unwell her footsteps tell a different s...

i have something caught in my throat. so i drop into a dreamstate (because this poem is not about me). and with my right hand          ...

each day bleeds onto itself like the day daddy sent mummy a love letter in the shape of a crowbar. every day hurts like the way the ca...

the aesthetics of fire, sharp, and to the point. the symbiosis of touch, too much. the chemistry of music when it hits my brain. the o...

they met in a land of missed connections in the year of bad timing. he came from the clouds or the mountains, high on expectations ...

(ziggy stardust, david bowie album tribute gig 6/8/17) i see you with elvis at the 7/11 hear your voice as i walk the aisles. ziggy live...

it was a very poetic moment as she raised the frying pan above her head,  bared her teeth and swung balletic with  such momentum he co...

crazy. i'm crazy for trying, trying to negotiate an  adult relationship in the face of such childish behaviour.  i can take the w...

we all felt good. following the circus of dirty romance young, raw and free we would shoot through highway veins and live the black tar ...

everybody's tripping my footsteps, got something leading to something slippery, jittery, glittery  to kill my vibe. hide me from the...

i love you for your crazy love your mad crazy love i love you mad crazy  crazy love crazy love.  i make you wait to make you crazy cra...

you'll be back. i hear you snoring in the next room.  you love falling asleep on the couch hate waking with dagger in the neck neck....

i am your canary, you utter one sentence and i am caged, ready to go underground. you send me deep into the dark recesses of your subc...

hide.  out on the tundra  under pressure, especially the staring, daring citizens with good intentions mention i should just "s...

surge. there's a word for the surge that you give me when i'm looking for a very mellow drama while december whispers of treache...

playtime is over. pretending the motions of a happy ending i come up short. we can't live on wishes or second rate love songs, t...

badlands.  the clay that i am made of crumbles back into the landscape. it's gully dry and sunset will surely catch me, wrap me in...

run. i lit a fire that wouldn't go out dancing around, a true fool in the night until it took the walls and roof of this house.  o...

(what do you do for money honey? ac/dc tribute gig, 24-11-15) you see me riding round in cars and hanging out in bars i'll sell it ...

the officer said "you should always try to celebrate the victories" we will be the hollow winners over being stuffed in a c...