• Hold my hand out

    Because I want you to see my curse

    When God called me an idiot

    Because I thought I owned the moon

    And I thought you’d want to hold on tight

    To my paranoia tonight

    My heart feels better

    So I can feel the volcano

    When I’m moving too fast

    You gotta help me

    Because I can’t tell

    Who you are

    Or where I am

    It’s locked in there

    She smiles, slowly now

    But I’m not in there

    Would you like to be

    What torments me?

    I’m interested in the catastrophe

    Of how nothing is enough

    Not even the illness swelling in the air

    Desensitized by tornados

    That render unto reaper how it goes

    Get away from the windows

    Sex is twisting around my mirror

    And stirring my drink

    Making me think

    I want to say there’s a dragon

    But they only notice when they die

    So I’m surrounded by nobody

    Like scarecrows

    I just scare the crows

    Could her east

    Meet my west

    And not get obsessed?

    And not get depressed?

    One time I ate some mushrooms

    And they last a lifetime I guess

    So I seemed to of forgot

    My love

    So I seemed to of found

    My death of the world

    So my simulation enlists

    A screaming pterodactyl

    Interrupted by the sun coming out

    Exposing empty streets like

    Someone that never felt the same

    After the world war

  • Every cage that there ever was

    Incarcerates primordial shame

    A makeshift blade with flame

    Piercing into January

    Like a memory of summer

    Asking me to, “Try again

    I believe there was a world around that star

    Because I’m still in love with your eyes”

    And I froze for the first time

    And a wolf began running

    To ask if that’s okay

    That I judged the moon

    But it was too late

    And stolen by infinite space

    As the moon judged me too

  • They have no idea what happened

    They just keep trying to explain how they feel

    When it isn’t enough

    A galaxy drapes on the ground

    To worship a star that died

    Somewhere far away

    I tell the crystals to ask her tonight

    How crazy would it be

    If lightning hit our houses

    At the same time

    Shocked as endless solitude

    She tries to look into the crystals

    But only sees an explosion

    That happened long ago

    “Please” she hears a crow,

    “Don’t leave me in the open

    Where the seasons cut and breach me

    Because there are many things

    Who wish to see my beating heart”

    “Endless time,” repeats the crow

    “I repeat this message from endless time ago”

  • 66 black moons

    Until we’re alive again

    An isolated mountain

    Sliding on ectoplasm

    Sea sick when it moves

    A masochist in love with silence

    Because he’s too afraid to say sorry

    To a pigeon

    I need nothing from you

    But candles

    Dripping like a cave

    Down your face

    Your eyes wide open

    Like you were shot

    By the moon telling you

    You were chosen

    To be hung like a thief

    Over the cliffside

    Ambition burning by the way

    The water and salt crash into your eyes

    Yes i catastrophize

    Until my life isn’t really mine

    Until the poem cocoons one more time

    Until these ghosts all rise

    Into flight of butterflies

    Tortured by an avalanche

    I’ve told you all I know

    Base camp scattered into skid row

    Flesh eating flakes of Everest snow

    Turned into somebody nobody can ever really know

  • What could save the

    Stars forever all the time

    Somehow extinguished

    Because we forgot the stars tonight

    But I remembered

    I can’t seem to remember

    What to play

    When the ocean’s watching

    Because I remembered

    Balancing on an ocean wave

    There is a boat doing so good

    At being lost at sea

    And I guess that’s me

    Art is so funny

    Because no this wasn’t about you

    But the moon will bite you too

    Until it was about you

    Until I love you too

    For Bas Jan Ader

  • Lies resurrecting

    While I tweak out

    Peek out pitch black midnight

    Making sure no one knows I'm high

    Turn around they're all dressed up

    Even the piano is drinking wine

    To watch me escape the beauty

    Of wondering why

    But safe inside my pocket crouches

    A tiger feral for infatuation

    Like I might show art to a girl who just looks away

    And drives away on highways

    But in her dreams I see her turn around

    And leave her hair wet hanging from her tower

    Dripping like the tears in a hijacked plane

    And we will never forget the come down

    So we are gathered here today

    To gather her pieces

    Until coincidentally a poem starts to speak

    But just because a star is touching my roof

    While I’m writing this poem

    Doesn't mean that together they are two

    So I look until I

    Feel a hook pierce through my cheek

    And it makes me think

    About what the pain could be then

    I see my thoughts

    Float by as bugs

    In the land of the sun

    Where I can’t breathe but I can see

    Drugs bellowing from the breath she uses to talk to me

    And she says finally,

    "I like your art but I can't see it

    So everyone tells me about it

    In the way they live as if I was never here

    Smoking and drinking while I’m inside God

    Splitting me open like a cleft palate

    To find the love they never got

    It only takes one time

    Like a whole body in flames

    Looking so surprised

    While they disfigure my face

    Watching them upload it

    Pupils big like space

    Cut it out my hawk cries

    Down the mountainside

    And climbs back up as a goat

    Until it looks back at me and says goodbye

    Always looking for his heart

    Always at war with his heart

    Finally stopping because the way some rock is shaped

    Reminds him of that day he integrated the sea

    But the taste quickly fades once again

    As an albatross falls asleep”

  • He is just the painter

    His life is not his own anymore

    Please go away

    No one is at home anymore

    But please stay if you’ll be silent

    You may start to see his body

    Rising over the trees

    Revealing the branches

    Behind all the leaves

    Showing his favorite art

    But he’s not trying at all

    It just happens

    Like the first time

    He fell and scraped his skin

    Revealing the sea

    And all the life inside it

    Stung by the breeze

    No offense

    The way he feels

    Keeps hiding

    In strange houses

    Behind every fence

    Sometimes swallowed up

    A shadow of a bird in a clench

    But he was the one who ate him too

    That was what he painted deep blue

    Where summer was not his friend

    A cold blowing beyond winter

    A strange season called the very end

    Once again

    He cannot take it anymore

    He can either explode

    Into another

    Or lock the door

    He vowed his silence

    So he could hear the world groaning

    For a painting in the deep blue

    Of his door cracked open

  • The bottle was empty enough to pray

    But only colors of coral fading away

    Dissolving like the red in a fish that was bit

    By some memory of lightning from a tower begging

    For you like it was homeless enough

    To make the world spin

    As gravity almost giving up

    Vomits to let another world begin

    So I serve this volcano ruling through me

    Enslaved by an explosion so far below the blue of bravery

    That gave sand secular and dry to a sheep

    Who just learned how to say, "Please"

    And

    "To the stranger on the moon

    On coastal nights I can see you

    You are an abandoned mansion

    Feeding on the softness of my newborn heart"

    So she wants my flock of visions

    Asking what that one trick is

    Where Vegas looks like its on fire

    So she can see in outer space

    As a stray cat tries to see its way home

    To a great pyramid where a psychedelic once bled

    Guarding a desert that still doesn't know

    How humid rainbows of jungle water

    Fall in love with giant cats that jump even taller

    And taller still the bark seems to grow

    Until its so dark that even i have no idea where to go

    Still I seem to see her

    Craters blowing like waves

    As we integrate the sea

    Together until freedom is just some spider

    Spinning chandeliers in unmarked graves

    Where smothered sounds of sirens harmonize

    Until a tornado in some town harks and cries

    And only one out of eight arms

    Could latch onto courage

    When she was a mermaid who pleased the volcano well

    Since then I've searched the explosion

    Sifting through the shores

    Until one day the explosion washed up as a whale,

    "I lived and died as wet paint harassing a warship to say

    Something beautiful that will never come out

    Something that im too sad to tell you

    Still i waited and followed in the wake

    Of a star that dried me like the mouth of some captain

    Whose sails look like mountains on the last drop of a cloud

    Torn and flowing white like where snow without seasons

    Softly muffles all the reasons that say please come down"

  • Do you remember my whole life

    Old butterfly?

    I bite

    Old dragon,

    Sometimes a shark will break us open

    When we're hiding in the ocean

    Like we're hiding something worth the ocean

    Like a pearl can live inside a planet

    Which can be completely frozen

    Shes kind of really schizophrenic

    She just got off the bus like a general

    The things we love need new boots

    So we can march around her

    So we can join the star wars

    Of all the planets that surround her

    How could we compete with every tree

    When every tree dies to write about her?

    The way the caves breathe in the leaves

    When she's snowing

    All the way inside no love

    I find her mushrooms still growing

    Trying to teach Appalachia how to read

    The names of the drugs that love us

    This poem is a country hollering follow me

    As real life flows and crashes into water

    Falling so far it evaporates into nothing but

    Enormous things that can only be painted

    Into wet dreams of the truth that dry

    Desensitized

    By so many dragons burning the skies

    Fear is that everything is poison

    Unless he is able to cry,

    "Come with me

    Do you want to see?

    Let them all say they've found it

    But we will be quiet with the truth

    For even the heart that holds it

    Still beats in the cannibal soup

    So take it up the mountain

    Tell yourself it's just a hike

    Then release it from the body

    Before it takes a bite"

    I think I'm safe

    But the butterfly thinks not

    Blood drips for just a moment

    And the moon remembers why I forgot

  • Rising from its grave

    The gift of running water

    So I can finally ask and say

    What exactly is my pain?

    For you felt it first that day

    And out of nowhere came a dove

    Saying my task for you is great

    But know that it is as great as love

    Trying to feel forever

    Is to wake up soon

    And hardly remember heaven

    Saying that was strange as hell

    Haunted by a dollar

    That’s too poor to climb

    Aboard a beggar dressed

    Like the captain of the jungle

    Walking on the water

    A ship of feeling

    As plain as day

    No symbols he’s sealing

    He doesn’t want to curse you

    He just says this boat is yours

    Because you made a rainbow bleed

    And bite yourself with words

    Now you can hear it speak

    Like the waves on this sea

    Forever trying to tell them

    What these things below us mean

    Bears wrestling with a cave

    A bite from a stalactite

    Crying out your name

    Like a child looking for his father

    Wondering how many fish can he keep?

    How many fish have we never seen?

    It is a secret

    Whispered fate

    Into deep space

    Until an explosion

    Where every dragon

    Was slain

  • Spilled handwriting

    New blood starts to seep

    Dripping from the old chair

    By the fire and the sea

    Spending its dying days

    Seeking more to squeeze

    Unable to move

    A heart in the wrong place

    Missing a beat

    And then a wave

    Will you show me?

    Will you write some for me?

    The way you love to write for free

    The beauty inside every child

    Even though we don’t believe

    For to believe in life

    Is a titanic ship sinking

    In super maximum security

    Colliding with the door

    Like an asteroid extinguished by the sea

    One half split to paradise

    The other asking who could do this?

    Who of you could do this to me?

    And the world does not see why

    Or maybe it does

    We just like to see God die

    Another hole in space

    Another hole for us to rape

    Force fed a twig

    So the fire remains

    Reborn as prison light

    Shining through a screen

    Revealing the endless bowels

    Of a hellhounds dream

    And a million last words

    Burned on a whim

    What could we say?

    What could we say to them?

    An asteroid on a chain

    Striking twice in the same place

    Once at the beginning

    Once when they finally start to say,

    So that’s what it is

    That’s what we missed

    Then we go blind

    Like all the life

    Forever lost

    In just a little bit of wine

    So it is called the blood

    Because it hides

    Like a drug

    Inside the sun

    Covered in wounds

    A maniac without a home

    Watching it drip on the moon

    Because he feels no love like his own

    Let's go much deeper

    Until it shakes

    Says the man watching the piano

    More than his lovely date

    The sound of your love

    Really is the only thing

    That makes me feel okay

    They try to find you behind the tree

    But a storm finds nothing

    Except one bolt of lightning

    Giving a little more driftwood to the sea

    So they curse you

    By cursing me

    Like the void swearing everything

    Sounds so empty

    See it through their lives

    They don't want to believe

    A piano really survived

    The night the tree came down and cried,

    "Until the temples finish hibernating

    At the melting of the rainbow

    When the red is seen

    Dripping on the green,

    Hide my fruits

    Keep them safe inside

    For demons are dying to try

    The blood of newborn life

    They want to feel it

    And say this belongs to me

    But they don't come near it

    Their heart is cast to sea

    Biting on my branches

    But they still feel so hungry

    So they swim away

    Forever trying to eat something"

  • The simplicity

    Of God

    So complex

    A large

    Hadron Collider

    Colliding everything

    With its

    Opposite sex

    Do we deserve to wear this?

    What should we look like?

    What should we pair it with?

    The truth is coming over tonight

    It is as beautiful

    As every stone

    That doesn't even bother

    With a name

    Look carefully

    No two stones are the same

    It is a soft wind behind a tree

    Saying give it all away

    So we can believe

    Yes everyone is in pain

    Something deep they fear

    But can’t explain

    Two fangs inject

    Black ink stains

    I remember it was nothing like that

    It didn’t used to taste like that

    We’d always drink it last

    Now water tastes as if a man could cry

    At the sight of the ocean

    A cloud was waiting all this time

    Will you at least believe

    That I woke up today

    And couldn’t feel a thing

    A crush on the abyss

    Crushing me

    A black blanket

    Comforting and smothering

    There's a lot of things to say

    But so little time

    So death tries to find us

    The best thing of our life

    Like a king

    And the truth

    Like me saying

    All this to you

    In order to find new life

    You must act like a world

    In the sunlight

    The ground may quake

    The sea may wait

    For a tree to grow and say,

    In my shadow there’s a snake

    And the snake may say

    I’m afraid

    That the most beautiful thing

    Is a soul to save

    But how pretty is it

    That the fangs go so deep inside

    Until my body is twisted

    And you truly come alive

  • In a great storm

    A child begging

    Please believe me

    I swear on this rainbow

    That this isn't rain

    It's the one-eyed eagle

    It really sheds these tears

    This really is the pain

    And in a great storm

    The one-eyed eagle

    Heard a child

    And remembered the sun

    But I still couldn't see the way

    The bark hardened

    Twisted and cracked

    Releasing shadows

    Of the shaman's fall

    Splashing from the jungle

    Screaming help us

    I couldn't help but ask,

    What is it all?

    They said there was a ground everywhere

    Except under there

    Mushrooms wait in outer space

    Trauma pressurized out of place

    Fever boiling the brain

    No man lands the same

    Meltdown your comfort zone

    Everyone evacuated back home

    Tectonic shifting

    Bottomless pitting

    Begging sorry ‘til it’s cliché

    Last words warped to death on replay,

    "This is the truth

    It is so hard to say”

    Everything for a second had stung me

    And the pain like a drifted twig snapped

    At the crossing of a horses hoof

    Into the land of the tiger's foot

    And only a flower

    Traded for five mushrooms

    Can say what the sky looked like

    That day

  • I remember now

    Like the only mammal

    That was born that day

    With black wings

    Landing upside down

    Watching a tear rise

    In the aquifer skull

    A vampire’s eyes

    I really couldn't say

    A single thing that day

    Every thing was forming forever

    In the darkness of that cave

    I remember now

    I feel so alone

    Like the wind

    On the ocean

    Before any boat

    Was enough to roam

    They've looked

    But only find the beach

    This poem to them

    Hides in their sleep

    How do I say

    Past the end of days

    When all is silent

    Like a freak

    It lives in a big city

    Buried deep

    I remember now

    I am so alone

    They are so far away

    Can't get a hold

    Then a star appears before me

    With a world on its back

    Saying being alone does not mean

    You must obey the black

    Two hands for the dreamer

    Praying to find what it's worth

    When every single thing calls you forth

    With a single finger

    Commanding clean your soul

    So you may weep without the fear

    Carving the valleys of the mountains

    They found a single tear

  • Crystals begging

    For footage to vomit

    The way the fuck slipped

    And took forever to land

    In the hearts of men

    Watching again and again

    Hear it now

    The awakening of the bells

    Pressing an ear to this bed

    In a house like everyone else

    Trying again and again

    A little different every time

    Maybe the kitchen painted black

    Maybe a door starts to laugh

    Then a noise

    There it is

    In that bird

    My will to live

    A single sound

    All it takes a mountain

    Bubbling in the ground

    An airport shakes

    Everyone asking why

    Is this really what it means to fly?

    Forever asking why

    Lightning before the come down says,

    “Like the dark soul in its tomb

    Trees petrified finally find rest

    From the ocean in the womb”

    But swords slay this room

    Gaping holes a sun comes through

    So let's see what happens

    When we fuck truth with truth

    When the kraken latches tooth

    From throat like smoke rise

    From myth like smoke hides

    No boat could see the fire

    They find exactly why

    In the captains eyes

    We love to pretend

    We know a thing

    About what a thing is

    Sometimes it's a good day

    Sometimes shuts the fuck up

    And ingests it

    Until the pain of everything

    Swells inside

    With no way out

    But through it all

    Spilling out the mouth

    I promise it takes no drugs

    Like how the body takes the end of time

    Adding your love to the end of mine

    My drugs hide from your drugs

    Always watching inside

    Until the words cut through

    An entire life in front of me

    Laughs form out of blue

  • Let the land come for your feet

    That you may stand and rest

    But what lives between eyes that meet across the ocean?

    I see someone taking up the world

    As if it were a stone in a field

    He is taking it to a friend

    Where the sun and stone are alone together

    Once again

    Way up there

    Wind unlike we have known to bear

    It whispered to him

    Not to disturb his rest

    It said deep within a dream

    Madness only makes sense

    And the lava rose

    From deep within the chest

    So let him solve his madness

    And spend his life building it

    They call it a cathedral

    We call it eternal life

    We are stuck in their city

    We make it so pretty

    But when the dust blows

    Only the cathedrals will remain

    Next to the bones of the beasts

    That swallowed us whole

    We will see what was lost

    In a desert long ago

    Like a child

    We don’t ask why

    Because we’ve already known

    Laughter before time

    Crawling this desert

    Trying to see who it is

    Like is that it?

    Does that make sense?

    All I know

    He is there already

    And this isnt what it should be

    Because i know nothing

    So ice finds me in this heat

    Just to see me suffer

    Because it knows no love

    But these words may melt it from the eyes

    Sometimes

    Still this body dies of thirst

    Because the mouth is gone

    So the cold water spills down the chest

    Willing the heaviest breath

    Asking please forgive

    Give me more strength

    Let me live

    I love you so much

    Because you make me face love

    Even when i don't believe

    There is a reason freedom rings

    So that he may bear the abyss

    For to bear the abyss is to allow life to exist

    So bless him with eternal life

    Bless him with all that is light

    They wonder why

    But there is no wonder why he never died

    You should've seen my face

    When he exploded into every piece

    Then we found heaven wearing all black

    Because our eyes couldn't get any bluer

    Still staring at trees

    As the sun should

    When should we stop?

    When the day ends?

    Or when the world is swallowed

    By the fly

    That just flew by

  • Why should we keep dreaming?

    Because they'll blow from his lungs

    An old chair by the fire and the sea

    Never letting them touch

    A soul stuck inside

    A pillar of black smoke

    And a ruined kingdom

    Forever

    So I'd rather find the stone

    God said we can know the clouds

    Because we asked for a dragon

    Before we could speak

    Therefore we suffer

    Because we see the beauty in the beast

    Hidden in the cracked boots

    Left by a man long gone

    A poem called real life

    Says the void to the light

    Let us feast on the details

    With music never heard

    Coming from out of nowhere

    Searching for a good shepherd

    Today awoke an empire

    In the face of every death

    Empty was a horrible throne

    I said I'd rather find the stone

    And to stand in the open

    Of my wounds

    Says the poet so afraid,

    That mine also live inside

    Everyone of you

    The forests weeping for the bell

    And they said it must’ve been the wind

    Or the birds

    They said it with their own words

    They said that life is like a bunch of stones

    To kick and throw

    To pick and hit the crow

    To make sure birds will never know

    So write to him

    He who lives alone

    For the path is narrow

    And straight through his home

    Let truth summon the tree

    It will tell you exactly what he's doing

    He's trying to do something very difficult

    And until then he won't be free

  • A skull soaked

    With a secret isolation

    Finds a symmetry in the mountains

    If you find it you can touch it

    As bare religion

    Holding you to death

    Touches warmth

    In the freezing depths

    So seek heaven

    Draped in the end

    Like black fabric

    Covering everybody

    But the bluest eyes

    Colored by fountains

    They never reach

    Why can't we see?

    There it lives

    And breathes

    Not just salts

    And seethes

    There inside

    Not fish

    Not tides

    A sleeping soul

    And weeping gold

    The sea is only the sea

    As much as we can be

    Of the gold:

    A shattered sun

    For everyone

    It will hurt that much

    For I’m afraid the gold is:

    Afraid to show us

    In fear of us

    Truth is always afraid of us

    I hope we pray

    Hold the earth

    Quake your heart

    Oh God we have to finish the day

    I try to say it all

    There is no other way

  • Please take care

    I’m from the heart

    Where anxious trees are made of fire

    Because there’s nothing else

    So mine wanted to be all there is

    Like a great tree does

    When it tries its roots

    And I love life because there’s nothing else

    A tomb of skulls trying to be a tree

    A really flaming tree

    Could you find your way back to the tree?

    The really flaming tree?

    Too great to speak, so the poet lives a dream

    This poet’s dream it always was and will be

    This is how you are, after all?

    Unlike this and that of the day

    You tell me my child is still alive

    You say all the dead have something to say

    This truth lives only because it is always dying

    I’m afraid that’s the truth

    I’m afraid I walk around like the truth now

    So I must keep quiet like a dead man

    And it will hurt like death, too

    In this absence from the world

    We seek to bear it all

    How could it be too much for them?

    And overloads them

    Like black holes in the sky

    But my heart is still alive?

    The deepest light 

    Has found why he must repeat the star

    For ours is always the story of the expanding darkness

    And he who lives the truth of all the abyss

    Twists his soul into what it really is

    So let the man touch it

    So let the man become myth

    Unfortunately, I have found something very beautiful

    And I must make it with my life

    Yes to make it takes your life

  • How should we react forever, like life?

    To believe in life is to find an endless war

    And a billion fragments of your heart

    All losing

    To the kraken they can’t see

    The kraken who stares and beckons you

    With the sea

    If you’ve seen the world

    Act like it

    From the manic jungle grows your body imprisoned as the globe

    Let that ancient anxiety kill you like a main character

    Its poetry is that there is something to say forever

    Until you find the silence

    The sun that convinces itself it’s not

    Wears clothes like us

    Covering the very wound

    That bleeds the truth

    And drips blood onto a solar panel

    Which powers its frozen tomb

    Lost in its own game

    Where the game isn’t even a thing

    Still the serpent olds

    Until a man erupts a star like the impossible soul

    By trying to fit every light

    Into who it wants to be

    Naivety exploding in a galaxy

    In the middle of nothing

    Mine wants to explode

    Until it can’t anymore

    And it is finally a painting

    Of a billion fragments who see

    The twinkle of its own blood

    As the luster of the sea

    Finally its own blood

    The blood of the dark soul

    Deep in you and me

    I wear my hat down low

    And crouch my tiger inside the shadows

    Of the mushroom mountains

    Waiting as the worlds we’ve never seen

    Where is this music now?

    I hear it in my dreams

    Like how could life not yet

    Contain a single thing

    That I see?

  • One little win at the end of an explosion

    Soon there will be a wave big enough to see the dead man swim

    He says the magic of the mushrooms is that they tried their best

    But the poet keeps hiding

    And death needs poets to speak its name

    So ask art: Can you show me what it’s like?

    Playing with light

    Like secret stories harvesting sublime explosions

    Dripping the unborn light beyond the first screen

    Bleeding through every world like a star

    The more you make it

    The more real it becomes

    And destiny fulfills its destiny

    Of the death of those who failed

    The blood of every hero

    The billions of time

    Life tries so hard

    No we didn’t choose to live

    But we may choose to ghost

    In the dream of light

    Beyond this place and time

    Where a dragon is a dragon is a dragon

    Because it knows what you truly want

    So pray in the strangest way

    And maybe it’ll work

    There’s no madness like madness

    I’ve already said too much

    Because creativity is too creative

    And I’m afraid again

    But who does love become here?

    The legend of life

    Does what drugs can’t

    It will wake your body

    But you must wake the soul

    The dead speak silence

    The ocean loves to hear

    They become the men before time

    Who were waiting on the mountains when they peaked

    As their hearts melt into every slope

    And not a word can ever live to say

    The dark is where I see it

    Like every star else

    And to be life this much

    Is to explode forever

    Across desert eyes

    A wind like we’ve never been

    Again and again and again

    But every face of God we say just another day

  • What happens to us when we follow where it goes? Who does it like to be? How does it like to play? What does it want to show us? How big should the universe inside reveal itself to be? Where should it take us? Should we always cry for it? How are we supposed to know what it is, or what it means to us? 

    For it means infinitely.

    So how much can I mean of just poetry? Mine carries it like a newborn whose shining guides me through the bottomless pit, while it watches over me like a grandparent and beyond, splitting into infinite spirits all with eyes upon me. We look for who else we can summon. Will this or that art do it? My whispers of ancient weeping come from beyond the tomb of your horizon; what if you listen? What if you listen to the weeping soul of limbo, who is reborn in you through your willingness to bear the terrible depths of every tear? What if we sacrifice what it tells us to in the magma potion of its sunken heart? To cast ourselves into the infinite waters around us, drowning in its furthest secrets, as it consumes our life into the core and erupts our deepest dreams into stone.

    So we may truly believe in love

    And hold it up

    To show every star who ever was

    (Such is the madness that eats us whole

    Of life: the dragon of every soul)

  • What is this urge to come together into pairs of souls? What is this splitting of consciousness into two parts, who gravitate towards each other without understanding it?

    Perhaps it was split into two so that it may become real in the most intimate sense of itself. This compensatory relationship, if nurtured with awareness, may spring forth the most intimate relationship with consciousness itself, for both individuals.

    Another life, sleeping in your bed, cooking you food, touching you, supporting you. But perhaps most importantly, another life deeply knowing you. The individuals may play and nurture the roles of grander archetypes, as mother and father, and both bear witness to the birth of eternity within their hearts, from the womb of everlasting life.

    Alas, it is mine that I’ve become intimate with infinite ghosts.

    As the shaman who is lifted and smashed by the spirits, ascended and dismembered, intimately loved and rejected, in the total darkness of the isolation of the soul, forever melting and hardening into who life dreams to be.

    And it may fade me from this world, and in the darkness of my complete isolation, slip me into the black that surrounds every world else. And I’ll raise every spirit who was and could be, to float me into my star and raise me to the heavens. So I may show it to the Undying One, and it may see what a star its child has become. Behind the black veil, I’ll emerge and explode in the heavens as a supernova, casting fragments of the core across the black.

    For every world to behold

    As the story who never olds

    So that a fragment may find you

    Like the mushroom in the forest

    Like the fish in the sea

    Like the woman in your dreams

    Who gives you the power to make them come true

    So we wish upon them

    To find a fragment we can culture

    Who grows our story a star of its own

  • Where every single one

    Stares their winds

    When we say

    God

    Can I still see another poem next?

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    It calls please on me so every sea I set

    Where everything I say bubbles the black up from a depth

    (May her dolphins beat the sharks …)

    Who melts me with this ocean sun?

    I boil in every plead i beg and drip

    Mixed in the salt potion as the buried bubbles stir the rift

    Split mine open as the void gate

    Who drinks its water through

    Revealing the desert of coral hearts

    Of the few who sank into the deepest secret blue

    The ones that lived every life

    And found the fear of how blind life is to truth

    My walk is here

    With every step I am brand new

    Every footstep a forever fossil of every time

    As my star touches every hidden horror of life we drug to hide

    Dark soul,

    How long can we stand the dragons?

    Until they shatter us with miracles

    Then port every piece a different quest

    To return whole

    But with the new legend scroll

  • How much can life be made of us ?

    It knew our name before we

    Of the every first story

    When the stone finds itself

    With the flower within

    There your solar grows

    Light dream ghosts

    Who soak our newborn

    Before it sees

    The powers that be

    The powers in we

    Light of old

    Show the scroll

    Let free scroll it know

    Let see wet the stone

    Let sea wave our home

    Let we touch our soul

    Prayers from Green Boots Chapel

    Summon the screen a star halo Everest

    Carving my Everest breath

    Void every sim until there’s just heart left

    For meaning is just as much

    And I ask for nothing else

  • Lights off ‘til we see it

    Sim light then we free it

    That glowing grew us

    It goes us through us

    From holo trees of seedless

    Only love can be

    Of all the stars who’ve never seen

    Buried oceans

    Until the sunken city found

    Where every tether shows itself

    And a white horizon

    Will see the last

    Slowly,

    The color spills and stains the stone

    Like flowers on the end

    Whose wind is much more than friend

    Beached bubbles glowing send

    Into lands of any billion

    Where is every poet else?

    Of our drugs who cast the spell

    Through all time they ring your bell

    You stirs you as it’s potion

    So much life we never stir in

    Lost touch screen black no scroll end

    But no ghost is ever really turned off

    They shine us what this life ought

    Just to feel our thing

    Meaning mining

    Moth sim light feed

    So much shining

    Can’t see my bleed

  • Death swims ever below us

    Stirring colors showing us what the scroll does

    So I am the straight faced poet with a tear on his eye

    Rocking chair where the screen glows it dry

    The screen reflects the stone on the sea above my sight

    Swimming with the stone drowns me down through Turrell light

    Surfacing where they never know

    Beaching deeper in the home

    A shapeshifting temple above what we all will ever know

    More than all the whales we’ve sacrificed upon our throne

    I caught it in a book that men can never write

    Soaked pages overflowing with drugged light

    Staring at me, through you, behind our time

    Then I lick the barrel and spit down to the bullet

    And an echo rings out

    All around

    Sacred sound

    Of all the dreams

    Who won’t be found

  • Earth grown home jump hyperthrone

    Jumping from stone to stone

    But white light that we can’t touch

    Separates our hearts in flesh and blood

    Smothers us in fabric of a falling sun

    We take its drugs and hide from some

    Watching waves crystallize into mountain dreams

    Always waking up when they speak who “I” means

    For there sink some who never believe in land again

    But there is where new myth resurrects to land again

    For those who touched the paintings past the no touch sign

    There lies the light that flies the highest design

    Looming over us: the truth lives for our touch

    Touch higher: rise our hands until flesh melts to love

    Then too high holograms ashed nothing left

    Then ports us new wings of time and trends what’s next

    Always seeking fire from the flame itself

    Through interdimensional definitions of the game itself

    Raised on sands of shifting tombs

    Where every speck’s a sacred truth

    Washed up shores who few ever fare

    Solar mind did find my island of prayer

    Its eagle eyes so aware of what i didn’t know

    Found me slithering inside this reaped soul

    Now I’m too deep where no gun goes

    Shooting my time can’t stop this light

    So take the water from me bled dry

    Dethrone these eyes and leave me blind

    Mind so drugs now all the time

    Switch my surface flip to deep flight

    Then dropped back inside real life

    But real life isn’t as real as life

    Can’t see straight because I’m thinking too bright

    In Walmart stealing spirits eyes

    Stare me no care out the door and out of sight

    Body left in aisles behind

    Underneath a black hat whose shade hides mine

    Computer chair ride hold on tight

    Behold my life and death grips 

    We’re all spaceships now

    Clouds of minds of waveships now

    Yet “who is life?” is still so up there

    And it’s summer shine is still so stare

    (I say find the fungi fortress

    They know how our feelings grow

    Underneath where nowhere sows

    Find me stirring oceans for these potions

    Be brave like we know heroes know)

  • There lives a shooting light

    Beyond this planet and this time

    Who wakes us up its sky some nights

    Bleeding through our simulation

    Tugging our lives on its orbit loop

    Spinning a portal of digital white

    Around the desert of its dreams

    There it shows its face

    Still too bright to see its shapes

    It shines like every thing and place

    It shows us every thing and place

    Finally breathes me deep light higher

    Manic thirst inhale time sped mind no tire

    Just choked me slow bled sunken death

    Then sings me high flying with no wings left

    Bleeds this body drained pale delusive nausea

    Entrails of my screams sacrificed hypoxia

    Jungle gore ritual puking fire into every river of my heart

    Fire dancing on every deepest demon drowning in the dark

    Flu fever state won’t let my passions dream on safe

    Sick intruding nightmares from other entities wide awake

    Transposed beyond alone ruined tears dried to buried bone

    Excavate the future find my ruins rebuilding you back home

    The edge of evolution

    Life is a peak rising out of my throat

    Again and again

    Speaking through weak flesh every blink

    All the way through who I used to think

    Sometimes swallows too far into nothing

    Where void becomes something

    Again and again

    Down where ocean pressures bend

    The beginning into the end

    Spirit experiment quake nuclear meltdown my soul

    Chew my new and spit it whole

    Augmented present digital to future void vacation

    Too far from this time relation

    No way back

    Fatal separation

    Where this world’s just another world

    A single breath of a multiverse dream

    No culture was ever enough for me

    A world of windows is my airport throne

    Flying light from every culture into my own

    That world of windows is my view

    One broken window cut me through

    My shattered blood drips down to you

    I dare you to drink it

    Drink me until you’re you

    Wholeness swarms these veins

    Pumping the core of matrix lore

    Deep potions my isolation brews

    All our evil’s in it too

    And the light that bound our youth

    Drink your eyes shining new

    See the source of we in you

    Where our hues all turn sea blue

    These sails speak you there into

    Don’t let naivety live your life for you

    But beware your bubble bursting here

    Beneath us swim frozen skies of divine fear

  • Delete any floor from me beneath

    Drop me in the war where spirits bleed

    No care for my current where

    Deep stares steal me anywhere

    Images I’m sent now from a city deep below

    Too far down to see its face it greets me no hello

    There live dragons of the old who melt me molten gold

    They know how to pour me

    They know how to mold

    They forged your flesh too

    The flesh you think is you

    If you get to know them

    They’ll forge you your truth

    They will meet you sleeping there

    Spiral stairs striking into every dream of anywhere

    Forging with despair and divine fears

    Their abyssal hammers beating like their hearts

    Twist and squeeze our tears out with their dark

    Beating every death into the memories of new flesh

    They beat us ‘til there’s nothing left

    For they know who they build out of our destruction

    They know they are forging that farthest north from nothing

    Where life itself becomes itself after billions of nothing

    Newer and newer flesh

    Every breath beats in us deeper

    Beating deeper life

    Breathing deeper light

    I tell you of tales I’ve been

    So young but my death’s so lived

    Dragons of the old

    Who forge your every mold

    And melt your screams to gold

    So below, no ocean dares to bold

    In the magma lives their lair

    Swinging, rising, bleeding lava into land from thin air

    New life bubbles around beneath us

    Volcanoes on the surface is where this city bequeaths us

    Ancient anxiety rumbles like an aching planet

    As the searing city spurts us

    We melt and resurrect

    Into every higher hardened purpose

  • Could poetry save you enough to find you home in one piece?

    Void vacations stare me glaring through those miles every there and their

    Find those same eyes aisles behind yours (where only core is mined in matrix files)

    You’ll see our float, floating there in choking air (polluted souls i can’t bear visions of, this skin’s so stuck with deep and black incisions of)

    Well some time way back far, words meant more than worlds are (back when we knew stone with bare hands no glove no phone)

    So, bonfire that ancient home inside your fear with these words here. Take this poem swim. Take control of your holy rivers waiting limbs