Tag: betwixt and between

  • Fever

    Photo by Brett Wharton on Unsplash

    A fever of climbing, each foot thorned on ossified remains of the other selves of his, those forgotten parts laying wasteshattered on this hill of broken dreams.

    Cut hands, his own slivered bones shredding flesh to ribbons as he crawls his pile of human debris. Sunlight at the center, high above, mocking. It is not obtainable, but he has his own Sisyphus path, and that path involves the play of light and shadow with his burden being self — something far more weighty than stone.

    A blink away of bloodstained sweat, he looks away from the improbissble past placed there in the fore. There is no sense in entertaining goals. Goals imply a chance at success. Success brings hope. Hope? No.

    Right arm right foot left arm left foot, shudderdream quakes and shakes, and involuntary scream. But still, he carries his leadself up, an empty skull of his staring from the hill. All the whispers shout encouragements, but he cannot remain still to gather them in.

  • memories and souvenirs

    Photo by Dylan Whoriskey on Unsplash
    winnowed of wind
    we shed our chaff
    over long seas to carry
    our selves to elsewhen

    even midnights fade
    when woven of windsong
    where our souls
    do dare go at wilds

    take a souvenir if
    that you must to recall
    but, as such, memories
    are nothing at all
  • hold

    standing stones
    Photo by Suzanne Rushton on Unsplash
    come the drift as
    voices fade away
    the taste of ash
    'cross my tongue
    distrust, the taste
    of dream

    bone hands stolen
    of twilight childe
    hold onto me, hold
  • pict-too

    Photo by Sandra Seitamaa on Unsplash
    a slendering into irrelevance
    pict-too pict-too painted blue
    —and now the unwanting

    to crawl down to bed in seek
    to find a dream in shiftspace
    between the you and the me

    that clackbone cracking
    after the summer, corewood
    once living, now dead

    kiss me before the afterglow fades
    pict-too pict-too all painted blue
    to slip to my slendering again
  • sudden summer

    black wooden fence on snow field at a distance of black bare trees
    Photo by Pixabay on Pexels.com
    sudden summer rain
    calls to the napping
    of grey dark the room
    i still ache to dream

    winter tales,
    winter song
  • crash

    Photo by Stephane Gagnon on Unsplash
    distractions become bliss with
    the fever of fingers dancing
    in the darkest shadows and
    a kiss before that small death
    where stars blur and blend
    slipstream into one present
    into rising waves of pasts
    beyond remembering
    to crash into you
  • consuming flame

    Campfire
    Photo by Ville Palmu on Unsplash
    dirt under nails
    cut ragged for
    all the digging
    leaving roots
    bared to the sun

    my lifeblood
    flows these
    seeking fingers
    and i stare
    wondering
    where it has
    all been drawn

    wicker the dreams
    at the man
    caging flame
    consume all
    desires for ash
  • her waters flow

    under burning skies
    and
    echoes in between
    wander as shuffle
    grow at weary
    aching for a fall
    to wash hands in
    her waters flow
  • axis;

    Photo by Tengis Galamez on Unsplash
    we all a whorl
    turning in & out
    labyrinthine & fell
    for the internal
    shadowed twists
    allowing for hel in our
    heart bone hearts

    can you see your teeth?

    we lay down there
    at the wytching tree
    buried of her womb
    wishing we could
    embrace her dream
  • dreamspacing

    Photo by Alice Alinari on Unsplash
    kissing at distance
    hands dreamlaced time
    drawspacing the narrows
    thin between eachwith line
    mouth to breath shared
    of lips gone surrender
    no longer bound of care
    silkslip and thigh
    that flesh dreamt skin
    pulling pastlives present
    willing you in