Cat Nap

there you are

asleep in the afternoon sun

streaming through windows and

painting your skin in ribbons of light

and shadow stripes

deeply breathing

far away in a

lucid dream, your face shifting

from boy to man and back again

and i wish you would wake

so that i could kiss you

instead, I'll drink the wine

and watch you sleep and

miss you

but sleep too long and the wine will be gone

then you'll wake to find me

(sleeping)

Moondrops

i drove home in the night
that awful moon reflecting
drops on my cheeks
black rivers of truth
washing away my paper charade
a heart exposed, reborn, denied
still beating

(thump, thump, thump)

my bed welcomes me
"i knew you'd be back"
deep in blankets
deep in darkness
deep in silence
"come and hide"
i would die for you, i think
i would die
for
you
and yet i live, still
breathing on the same planet
we share, apart
we tear apart
we part
and
sleep comes softly
(sighs like the ocean against the shore)
your taste fades on my tongue
but my heart
is not free of your hands

(thump)

(thump)

(thump)

Haunted

will you remember me in

the dark blanket of stars?

i cast my heart to the heavens

and whispered prayers

in a language i did not speak
but understood with
infinite measure

your ghost and my ghost

followed and led

leaving footprints in 

the soft earth like a child

running

from a devil in a

dream

will you remember me in

the quiet moments of the night?

when you wake to the 

pounding of your heart
 (that dream of black birds on grey sky)

the universe divides us

and the stars pour through your

fingers like sand
there is grief in the darkness
a sentence unfinished
untested
undone
my ghost stands in the
corner of your bedroom
sadly watching
still longing as
the new moon bathes you in
blue light and shadows


From my journal: December 2006