Star the black or shine the sun skin burned

With arms akimbo
he fell further from his mark

thus crucified the hellion, was to ever climb upward,
thus fleshed the electric, was to moment the timefulness
of this earthly space

and
the mountaintop
conquered
the sky

as
the linguist
destroyed
reason

allowing
his one true reflection
to become
a vacant introspection

of a handful of never was
and a mouthful of desperate hollow
that for awhile gave in to the separate,
ideal (unexpected),
and hid in the day
a pocketful of
vanished.

So now light up, freeze, melt away,
star the black to not resolve reality,
nor shine the sun skin burned.

Sara dropped a token or To Sky Heavenward

Sara dropped a token
and her world exploded
halfway between here and there
the construct that kept her frozen
opened a door to Sky Heavenward.

The nuts and bolts that were meant to hold her together
failed
and all at once was revealed the unrevealed.

She now,
a blazing, burning beauty, took her first breath,
abandoned all eloquence for an absolute truth
that had until now been hidden away within her,

not unlike a child forgotten.

Having let the token fall,
the gray that was the number three
smiled as Sara let it wrap its arms about her-
in less than an hour,
she would be home.

FAOY

Forever
owing
on
loving
solo

a
lone
lover

on
fire

yellowing
over…
undertowed.

A communion of stars

'Gone in an instant’ was not the feeling
but rather a feigned sort of stealing
that we had managed to delay

and as heaven folded, collapsed, fell from the sky,
the earth struggled evenly to break her fall

four seconds later, from a smallish white room,
in a nameless happenstance of a place,
a plaster wall rippled along a corridor,
warped steadily under unknown pressures,
opened up, threw splinters asunder,
revealed the wonder that is hell,

he, the progenitor of all human circumstance
broke free from the eternal intercourse of dissonance
inspired a communion of stars
that hovers now undisturbed, above the aftermath of our reign.

Gulf

An outstretched hand advances
makes its way through waves of doubt,
tidal in its motion,
reaches its destination,
plants firmly on pale skin

a curtain, a veil, a subatomic barrier,
shudders violently as two bodies collide,
maintains the illusion of separation

a cool ocean, the face of the admired,
the face of the loved, and a desire to commune
somehow whole but never enough, a warm gulf
signifies a distance far greater,
never conquered

electricity erupts along the fabric atomic,
strains against the lack of weight, the abundance of
desire, hearts afire does not compute

four fingers falling, a thumb in tow,
retracing steps through a gulf ever widening,
spurned on by a letting go,
every attempt closing in on
one unified moment.