Emptied Unto Arms of Clay

verity as thought forsaken
lingers long in clouds of lead
twisting spires of wrought contortion
sown distortion courting dread

shedding hours spread like reddened
ire devours descending rope
mooring of our own portending
fastened to facades of hope

torn asylum trickles onward
all the equid etched terrain
hobbled oath inflecting inward
emptied unto arms of clay

adulating spurs complacent
erubescent indigence
abrogating fate’s insistence
airing anthropomorphic

affectation errs evincing
mocking amorous proclaim
sacred bond absconds as mincing
silencing the heart’s refrain

Folding Inward Blackened Wreath

Desiccation upon glass heart

Hastily sprawling splinters

Streaking sullen surface

Spoils unearthed to whet the weary

Wilting as waters wage war

Washing the rue of the ravaged

Succumbing, this savage breast recoils

Deep into the soil of surrender

Layered, tenderly to mend

Slitting sights on set horizons

Errands nestle in nocturne’s numbing

Known fool to lair retreats

Viewed through shades of discontent

Comes unrelenting lack of reticence

Ambivalence wracks the senses

Folding inward blackened wreath

Reaching long to breach the onset

Blade unsheathed to greet its hour

Heaven’s heights elude embedding

Subdued by sights shed

Red with bloodlet blighting

Brought to light, beset to dimmer

Sink or swim on wavering whims

Begin anew the steadied sting

Barren as the blinded eye

of mind that would foresee such stars

Marred by ceremonious compliance

Shedding My Soul for Bedding

In Chambers of abundant void

Decadent decay ensues

Peering past spectacled sphere

Allaying my undoing

Fear cast upon mangled mass

Dangling over moral mendacity

In pendulant descent

Shedding my soul for bedding

To usher in the dawn

Amorous armor, brittle and tarnished

Halted momentum

Of bare wire frame

Cognizance compromised

With time’s absconding

The hour’s toll looming

I pray, not awaken

Like a Deftly Sewn Death Shroud Secured

Bereft; lay my heart upon ocean’s floor

Forever once wandered from her lips

Now eclipsed in shadowed solitude

Indiscernible, such impetus gives way

Allaying the allure of erstwhile spirit

Spent; things rent yet remain

As plain as ivory iridescence upon desolate eve

In gloaming, elucidation ensues

Expanding our minds in the umbral embrace

Essences escape in eager entreaties

Erupting like flames from chasmal cliffs

Arriving at the altar of fated farewell

Felled like forests denied deponent

Enduring etchings bespeckle this quarry

Quietus gathering as dust fills void

Raging resilience now recoiled

Bravado that bellowed and burned

Spurned reason, inquisition ever looming

Like a deftly sewn death shroud secured

Monochromatic Cell

Visions flourished with age
Cradled palette mirroring life
Unbound by consciousness

Subjective grandeur
In subconscious expanse

Ere I knew naught but this monochromatic cell

Though once I dwelled
In untold triumph
Freedom seldom deemed

Leaves absent; revealing lament
In reverie descending

Totality’s truth abiding
Fragile fruit bears mind
Vying for validation

Amid Eternity hastened
To taste infinity alone

Her Poem

time and circumstance
holding force
on our union’s resting
turning harmony dissonant

when i listen
to the tones
of shrill cries
from passing stars

my efforts
to gain passage
are denied

left scarred
from having so misjudged
the heights
obscured by heaven
despite this heart’s bursting

still
i have felt
the shards of piercing
work their way into my song
words imbued
to shape the softened strings
that set this sallow soul
to brood

the day shall come
in the offset glow
of winter’s nuance
swept into
the undertow’s sway
where we will walk
tethered
in the hour
of silent prose