𝔰𝔩𝔦𝔪𝔢 𝔣𝔬𝔯𝔢𝔳𝔢𝔯

tidetaken names unsunned, await the spill of the world like sick from Sunday's throat wasted wishes pocketed the darkest stones, eroded mirror smooth bones once secreted to the bottom of a silvering horizon in another life I am washed away lake heavy and cloud buried

musicless i listen to the leaves verdant language comes easy i drink the light of it like a plucked sun my dragon lungs exported if thumbs poised for biting could strum the chords of this spider woven sleeplessness i'd play the verses of the dreams that we forgot i'd cradle your bones in the sunset of my lap hold the hexed heat of you forever in my chest like a spell

more, he tells me one thing i already know toothless famine worn like his star mapped robes, sky large atlantic deep and turbulent as hands marking the burials of his scattered pieces fingers as oracles whispering behind his ears in the lightning flicker of his own treasured tongues

racoon eyed i am in an angeled blur of sleeplessness built up for imprisonment in sternum adjacent cages a week now a month a year humming between my ribs a year coming in this skin asylum stretched thin across a moaning ocean, i shrink into the blinding shine of a gilded island, a shadow lying awake in the hollows of you

i'm a chunk of wood and aluminum smashing out music lying in verses like a baby sleeps through the screeching choruses of a man is a man is a man is a keeper of secrets i am and none so secret as that i keep from myself the happiness and the hurt of it the crush of plastic flowers under tender feet the cold stone chest of ink and paper howling with the winds of old hurricanes and slick as sick slimed porcelain oh the foramen magnum of this life oh what a hole am i

angel named and arcing amber along the ceiling of my mouth my darkest inclinations as exhalations green in the galaxy painted throat of this brand new forever divide me along the softening edges of it a noose of star jasmine and lavender braided into the swaddling shadow that holds me out of the light that coveted admiration that keeps me to itself the oceaned looking glass of your potioned gaze

think i heard this voice before a whisper in a shell now smeared across atlantic dreams baby blue and strewn with owls inquiring about my alligator grin reflected in the well you wished me into there I whisper to the shells, ceiling tranced, enraptured and heavened all to hell

lunar-lipped, this soft revival the hazy lime of your arrival sings in circles, parasite minded the cat-eyed light of earth arising gleaming green, the fabled island

wandering a paper labyrinth reversing eyes and turning stones cutting teeth on heiroglyphs dug out of the loam wandering a paper labyrinth pocket full of matchsticks

bruised rind of sleep peeled away reveals a pale and pillowed tide sighing lavender and lilac a feline slide of eye trialing and undecided

the weakness at the bottom of the day jagged pearls of bliss and agony like broken teeth softening the lilac throat of a monday evening a star falling from the bloodshot eye of nine pm edt netted in chattering palms torches carried into the lightless yawn of dreams