• Love/Lust

Love is true and love is just. Just to love is love worth lost. Lust for love and love of lust Is the difference of your trust. Trust, it seems, is lost through lust And gained through love; not worth lost. So to love and lust and trust, you must: Close your eye... and just...

• Expedition

The world slipped off the shelf Orbs of earth and glass and flowers, I stood gleeful in the chaos As it smashed around my feet. The instructions I’d received Then played upon in my mind - You must go unto your orchard girl, Your peaches are now ripe. His flesh was soft and dark and clean, Unlike any in my memory, It had the smoothness of a child’s Who had not yet seen the sun. His hair it smelt like Africa, Walk miles and never come to this. My other and my opposite Stood fierce against my tame. All at once and far too much A pleasure binge that made me sick. Vomit dust the morning after And nails through months that followed. ‘Cos in those hours, world logic changed Ethics shifted, science slouched, Symbols misplaced meanings Whist language shook off form. Darkness, heat, such slippery red Asphyxiates with velvet tongues Spun promises they wouldn’t keep And licked me until clean. Heads rest back on buoyant clouds I ask one thing before the dawn; Don’t leave me while I’m sleeping Don’t wake me if I dream. ----------------------------------------------------

• Morning Song

The clock hums louder than honeybees dancing love stories, like those I wrote you on the skins of oranges hidden in the fridge that whispers white noise counterpoint, and the coffee drips a darker tempo, keeps the time. Josh Ritter sings real quiet to me on the radio; his voice is as mellow as the hush of bird’s wings. The washing machine grits her ivory teeth and grinds her heels into the floor—I worry that we’ll find her crashed out in the basement next week, but the dryer pays no mind puffs smoky clouds of contentment out the exhaust vent. I know that upstairs you are still perfect where I left you: cradled by featherweight, and the pillows pummeled into the frozen shapes of waves that never kiss the shore, that keep you dreaming deep and slow—far below the waters where the whales sound out their songs you drift silently, rock gently with the susurrus of tides. I am deaf with love.

• Sex Sheets

You slept in our sex sheets for three days remembering the plunge the drive the ride cold blue sheets tangled between your thighs With a blonde lock wrapped round your finger with your small toes curled into the fabric stifled gasps past tongue teeth lips blossomingly You never felt so feminine Your wrists in my fists skin hot on my high solar systems collide between our chests stars are born and die Sleeping in the wet spot always makes you feel accomplished We did something here Laundry day comes too soon

• Wraith Of My Dreamscape

Dawn, the time that she always fades Dawn, the time her flesh erodes away Gone, but perchance tonight she'll stay Cursed dawn, the time that I awake At midnight I began my eager wait For my nocturnal deity of harmony and hate My eyes, once filled with doubt, appeared vastly relieved As she emerged from the shadows and I couldn't breath She let loose her scarlet robe in which she came draped I tried feebly to move but I could not escape She slid smoothly onto my silk sheets and leaned in for a kiss And I was powerless to resist... Nydia, the reason I shall never sleep Nydia, the reason I'll never find peace The hours danced past but the passion remains Flesh pressed to flesh and vein held to vein My eyes plead for more but my scarred heart refrained I asked, "Why hold you now when you shall only cause me pain?" She grinned and whispered, "Don't ask what I cannot explain." "Farewell", she sighed as she re-dressed, "I shall now depart so you can rest." "Not yet," I plead in dire protest, "My heart is not my own, it is now yours to posses." No quick response came from her lips I waited in silence; she would not commit I leaned closer and she faded further It seemed that destiny would not permit One final embrace to end with a kiss For the dream ended swiftly And thus departed my succubus Quickly she vanished and then I awoke I gathered my heart that she had just broke I closed the old window and sipped tasteless wine Knowing that she now was roaming the depths of my mind...

• fantasy

' you know you want to' she was more than right with that cute pleading voice i couldn't put up a fight her voice seduced me i knew it would but the feeling of her in control felt kind of good the sounds were real but she was in my head she was miles and miles away yet next to me in my bed it got more intense as we moaned in pleasure when it came to pleasing guys no girl was better and in the middle of it all i wish i could see the pretty girl sitting on top of me the pace quickend as she started to move fast i wanted to make her feel good and i wanted it to last she gasped in the air and said my name nothing else exsisited when we both came after we would cuddle and she would play with my chest of all the times we'd done it that was the best i was tired now my arm was weak she giggled and said 'ill never have more fun with a phone pressed to my check'