Mules

Shoulders sore, propped up over an internally burning stomach

Raw eyes anchored to keys,

Each digital page was a blanketed field surrounded by summits.

 

It’s no crowned jewel, although sometimes peppered by obsidian flakes,

Numbers indicating trailheads with the promise of mountains and lakes.

 

Following the spine upwards, eyeing the words down

Pages were the ...

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New Light Beam

I wasn’t born this bright

And there was no way I could see

How growing up inside the dark could bring light out of me

 

I seen a new light beam

It cast onto to trees

And each drive there was a window of time

I saw the emerald sea

 

There was a humid haze between myself and the never-ending valley

With pollen speeding fast into my eyes from air-rushed...

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Gemstone Necklace

I dare to wander far inside this trove of a head

Without chains around my ankles bounding me to my bed

Though, it sure feels like it

I feel a weight inside my lungs and my chest doesn’t like it

 

In the expansion and decompression

The plasm I bleed

And the skin closes up, it’s all alike

It seems.

 

In solitude, a bed of thin clouds dissolves benea...

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Sunflowers

Your eyes are hazy

I think I found

My favorite color

 

And I think about you

All the time

I don’t want to bother.

 

But she will only say

They are brown

That they are boring

 

But I just can’t stop

Looking into honey

Your eyes are October

They’re sunflowers.

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All I need is you

And low natural light infiltrating the room

 

We often play pretend in our minds and while we think

We think lightly of our due dates, more if we’re on time

 

I know I missed one day and saw the grass turn gray

And though the sun still shined through the clouds that May

I never could forgive myself for missing your day

But I saw a lot of beauty for you ...

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The stars shine brighter than the books say they’re supposed to

And the tall grass ain’t as green as the other side had proposed

I was too drunk to see the starshine

In the daytime I saw their glimmer spark and melt into some bronze eyes

Two rings of lulled dreamscapes I near missed when I fell into a low tide

 

I writ in song so that the stanzas, you can’t read them, but you li...

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Deep red

deep state in an asleep head

Night dawns a new obsolete head

sewn through the holes of nightmares

 

In deep red

Wild were the thoughts which rampaged through my obsolete head

sifting through, onward to oblivion over the steeps’ edge

a mystic haze in a flume over the deep end

I see red

I bleed red, and she can see it in my eyes

dawn looked so beautiful re...

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THE FIFTEEN CURSES OF CALEB

Inevitably a smile

A happening of fascination

The affected refrain from spilling out

 

Judge quickly, it is a curse

The affected begins to ponder

Thoughts begin to hurt

 

The affected seek more

A common voice is only common

As long as the affected recollects his words

 

Converse, seemingly, indefinitely

He is...

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