Monthly Archives: May 2018

Alive

I have a ghost trapped in the walls of my eyelids. At night, when my eyes shut, I hear him pounding on my eyelids. I hear him trying to escape as he wonders why I buried him there, but when I close my eyes and I see him, I remember why. I dream him, he […]

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Love Does Not Retreat

Love does not retreat. It continues on. Bloodied and bruised. Maimed and hobbling. Love does not retreat. It dies before it stops. Love does not retreat. Love marches forward. Straight into your darkest moments. Love takes shelter in your pain. In the house of your agony, Love sets a table for one and drinks a […]

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Tasting Echoes

Give me your blue. I see cities in your bruises, the singing blue tongues of a nation under your skin. I see your song percolating, beating underneath. I cut you with my teeth and taste your sacred anthem, I free those melodic cities, the emancipation of your song, echoing skyscrapers drip on my teeth, and […]

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