I wrote a wall around me

when your stories were too cruel

I sat inside and ate alone

Refused company or news

I told myself I'd never leave

Once I ate a star that burned in my belly

for a thousand years,

warming all of the organs which orbited it,

and even shedding light on far distant spaces

Do you know how yellow tastes-- when it's mixed with the purple center of an orchid? My best moments taste this way.

When I am inbetween two moments, remembering, my tongue first bur...

1,2,3 planks hover over gravel banks

skipping over rail road tracks in boots and stripes

of whites and blacks

The year is divided thus:

a) days that make no sense.

b) days in which the nonsense makes sense

c) days in which the absence of sense is a thrill, which also ...

Before there were maps, compasses or stars,

I found you still.

He's been stuck in my head awhile now

building houses with colored bricks I have provided,

towers hundreds of feet tall to cast me in shadows

towers which, i'...

Shifting wings both green and blue

Syrup eyes like morning dew

Ears carved into a feathered head

trained for hearing what you've said

The songs it...