Love

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A relay of a moment

Three glances across meshed glass,
the folds in an old poster
still standing strong.

The void is normally in your gut.
Your mind feels intact.
Tear glands prepare themselves.

In a few words my heart
twisted into a puzzle and the blood
wouldn't reach my hands.

Don't look at me with those eyes,
they make me feel thin.

Days Transpose

The Cape

The cape was warm,

the sweat came mostly from his back.

He fingered the stitch that made him him,

then signed his name in the mirror,

cast in steam.

You can do this, he told his eyes

over and over again.

You've overcome worse.

The C in heart,

the S in the reflection,

the Y in pants,

clawing at his groin.

The heavy R in his hand,

the D quivering on the trigger.

Next day the papers lead,

blaming it on the pressure.

knock it back

like it's medicine and wait

for something sweet

to take away the taste

Vascular Sizood

Fret not, a knot has found itself and caught
a heart that beats itself to death, hiding
the hands that bleed with love and hide within
a place they named the suprasternal notch.

About a Ten Minute Walk

I still know the route to your front door,
that room of books, the chequered floor.
My shoes come off and then I see
your mother’s hair, turned white with grief.
And then two pictures break my heart.