For You and Little Boy Blue

Riding that same old train
500 miles of twisted track
Those familiar station stops
Where your name is on every sign

I can taste the rum on my lips
The scotch and the vodka too
Those simple sweet poisons
That get me through the day
The week
The month

The pills I take
The drinks I make
For addiction's sake
And for you

And little boy blue.

The World Ends In a Yes

Stumble step in an alcohol spin
Heart shatter smile, shake your hair
Eyes cast down, arms raised up you dance in place
Little giggles and sidestep fancies
Shared glances and stolen kisses
The world ends in a yes

That Moment of Thunder

It is then that I think of you
That moment of thunder
The one that is not a rumble
Not a roll
Not a
BOOM

When the charge lets go right there
Ozone in the air
Small hairs on the rise
That thunderous exlposive
CRACK

It is that sound
That is the sound of your name
That small nuclear hell of a moment
That's where you live in my memory
A brilliant flash of
Perfect Violence

Coldest Night Since

Tiny smiles unseen with hands reaching out

Wondering what the name of man is

Dropped broken forgotten in the mud

Is a word unspoken in your world or mine

A taste of something future past present

On the wind in the blank spaces between

I drift lazily twisting tumbling heavily

On the tide of memory questing questioning

Finding only the smallest dram or

Quietest portion answering in untrue form

Regret of the smooth cool touch of your laugh

On the hairs of my skin taunting

Smiles sliding through my insides

The bitter flavor of your name on my tongue

Yellow bilious chalk swirling in the drain

Trying

A still image photograph
In a painted eye
Sepia tone slide show haze
Graphite scrawls
A page of words
With corners on them

Sharp edged vowels can cut

Tabletop crawls
With a blurred vision of you
Sketchpads and smiles
Articulate utensils
Speaking in smudges

And lines

Shaky hands now
Withered hearing
And the lines just won't talk to me
Like they did before

Parents arguing in another room

I'm trying to listen
But I can't
Make out
The words