slumbering in the fires

these are the severed beasts of the left hand of a cowboy gothic the stone caves in your chest. wield it against the dust against the...

your eyes like smoked glass, your skin tight and jaundiced, your mind a meadow on fire. the rivers now are of gasoline cutting down ...

they came in off the deserts blind from the sand and wind baying at the western moon well past any decency at such an hour frothe...

at the edge of night where abandoned dogs tarry in the pitch an evil impends cordate horrors pour out to the floor of a room now o...

hold against it. a dimness in the shortened days. this lupine night extending inward and out. it's been there since the beginning, ...

last night i slept not but a little. my hand nagging and gnawing. nerves leaping against inert, numb flesh. but it’s all progress, i ...

now, we can fix it, we can fix anything. provided there are enough medical sutures and clean needles. and pills of appropriate do...

this room. hazed and browned like some stinking opium den. inside that curling smoke you hear a sigh. a slithery whisper. the dev...

you’ve learned to climb those branches surprised at your own sprightly agility higher and higher you go. all those watching are now im...

gripping the throat a trembled hand teaching you a lesson. is this the way it ought to be? your brave face going dark, those eyes f...

my hand is a mangled claw. healing? sure. but most definitely mangled. i haven’t put out new music in over two years. should this matte...

my heart has always harbored a darkness i leaned into it often the inky black velvety with ache it was a way to be the only way i un...

you’ve made me invidious with your light, your smile tinged with regret all this could have been different if only my courage didn’t ...

the rains come heavy and swift, the long, low rumble across a sky, the clouds spilling darkness over the sunlight. now, there are dif...

the birds they are a murmuring and the sun it is a setting slow across and into the lowly horizon do not despair the time lost do ...

the night moans and the ground palpitates, doughty! those places you won't be. you can't be. now the walls in this billet bomb...

the light without has gone incandescent, green. the leaves have all turned up and over. belaud the templed clouds, falling. our bre...

you are fierce and full of courage, your heart swells like the last wolf in a smoldering forest with nothing left to eat.

first they came and took my tail and then they took the horns. they clipped my wings and came for the fangs. they returned once agai...

in this world i get lost inside the nuanced increments. beneath the projected ennui. in the subtle shift of light or the granular ...