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Bleeding
Bleeding black ink I spill words as my body leaks blood On hospital gowns Inking the floor with my essence I wonder if the OR staff made wishes When they cracked open my breastbone I remember long ago...
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In My Castle
Warfarin You know, rat poison It’s something I have to take now and forever To keep clotted rats away from the mechanical valve Who knew I had rats running around my cardiovascular system I didn’t But...
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In The Night
I feel each molecule of splintered bone in the night Constricted by wire twisted tight I wonder what dance or battle is occurring at the cellular level In the refusion It isn’t always easy to bond once...
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Coming To
The unmistakable chime of a monitor echoes Intruding into darkness Awareness creeps up like a shy kitten Mewling I feel chest tubes Painlessly weird Opening my eyes I see the nurses’ station So many...
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Healing
The enervation of healing leaves me flattened My energy level drains as fast as an iPhone battery So now I take naps I rest Each small chore a triumph I battle ennui With slow motion moves I breathe,...
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Battles
My hardest battles aren’t with others But with myself Waging relentless optimism against an array of sins I am cloaked in lethargy I can barely shrug off the self-pity that has me wrapped up In my own...
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This Is Not A Poem
This is not a poem about love Or yearning for love This is not a poem about relationships And all the shit that transpires between us This is not a walk Down memory lane Into some childish backwater of...
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What Is Truth
If I could talk about beauty today I’d talk about whirligig seedpods spiraling down from maple trees Whose leaves lie yellowed and rusted Beneath the green canopy that has begun its fatal turn...
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Broken
A broken ice jam in my chest Subcutaneous scab recedes An alpine glacier Shrunken to a few frozen crevasses While muscles have reformed Beneath a punctuation of red hyphens Exclaiming sternly sternum...
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Click
it’s insistent with that fucking click click click bothers me but what the oh yeah other shit to worry about big stuff like the fate of the world click click like transcendence into some paranormal...
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