Make and break them

step over than on

backwards over these words.

 

Follow without a fight

solemn on this beautiful night

backwards over these words.

 

You wonder why we gave

up the chase in this maze

under these walls

 

you called home.

You said a lot a lifetime ago now

backwards over your words

 

we follow no one.

Trial and error.

She only learned through

the her meals. 

Dancing trays and singing birds
over breakfast. It was over

after breakfast. Margarita’s

cover the dusk and Grand Slam

in the rise. It was over
after breakfast. 

The dusk came too soon-

like it always did, waiting in line

for dinner.

The hand graces ice life

and numb to the tips.

A single ivory sail and 

a few fallen friends
crusade. Silence criples 

the lone wolf in

shattering darkness, he

doesn’t want to be
next. Bravery comes in

twos and beauty shapes it.

Land in a unseeable distance

shapes him for the promise of
future.

She came back to my dreams last night.

Tight roping around my finger tips

swirling drapes flashed on her tender lips.
I didn’t think you would come back.

We crashed our boat flying like a kite,

cursed, spoke your honest plight.
We read of the same scripts.

I wished for your hands and lack

of spite and I’ll meet you after I pack.

Goodbye

to you,

my unexplained friend.

My foreign beauty decorated under

cherry lights shinning brighter

 

than the sun you’ll pass. Wave

to our friends we fought and drank

with on the stars.  We opened the

doors to a future

 

that couldn’t exist without

your promise of safety.

You set sail on your second

 

journey through the Milky Way

and maybe not tomorrow

 

but I’ll be your second hand- one day.

 

I can’t see through owl eyes.

Twenty twenty didn’t prepare me

for chaos filled parks and high

seated ball games.
I can’t breathe up here. The oxygen

is ripped from my lungs like our youth.

I cant pretend to understand the complexity

the labyrinth 
you refer to as

‘you should just know’.

Featuring The Spectacul-
Slight storm tickled our roof

sending it to the fans like

Mutombo. Rim shattered
watching the family dog

ripped from a warm towel

into swirling abyss deemed
executioner. Beast had no eyes

only a demeanor.

Featuring The Spectacular 
fate has come too

pull two more.

flakes brushed against our bare

shoulders as we danced. Her dress

glazed the icy floor turning

from crystal blue to
sangria purple. Her cheek

bone lined her arm

outstretched swinging

with musical pace. Time
ceased and the sky slept and

the moon applauded our efforts.

The life around paused to watch

the snow flakes fall around her grace.

You were the first of triple

to land on snake eyes.

Bow out, crapped out, cashed out

the oak table is cold to the eyes
and touch. The second stumbled

from the dice rolling seven

enough to win. The dice 

are cold in his hands
but he must keep rolling-

for the third watching

on his left. Before he

must roll on his own.