Monthly Archives: February 2009

In The Dark

…you can see the lights flicker in circles.  And wash over their faces as their eyes turn upwards.
There, is expectation.  There is the night supplanted by lights and lost in the sea of washed and turned colors ebbing in the crowd of breathing and screaming and yelling and speaking beneath old, grasping branches and hanging [...]

this is the way out

still moments stolen from you, thoughts you never saw
coming.  the quiet, creeping along the edges like the little things
you whispered in cool breaths; faded ghosts, dissipating sounds
upwards and away, a hazy sheen broken.  between inhalations
you see clearly, i’m standing across from you.
…in the background, the cars pass by.