time resigns
to dust
in blustery skies
for gone, is all reason
and life bleeds heavenly
with laughter
no longer
looms lingering night
where lovers
once lived
‘neath the shadow’s reprise
Where Lovers Once Lived
Cigarette
Obscured Sediment In Dawn’s Exile
Shrouded by luminous quilt
In stolen hour of desert gloaming
Brash and bright as life would have us
Intertwined, we courted darkness
Stark was all that ruled our world
As we rued the daylight squander
Loathsome aurous sphere that seared
A porcelain demure transfixed
Etched embrace on umber shore
Neath peering Peridot mystique
We breached the siren’s song
Through passive glances temporal
Felled, you held this coiled carapace
Quelling wrath with vitreous hand
Hapless, I would soon succumb
Shunning lucid truth in youth
All that would bear consequence
Flourished in the fiery depths
Every moment flushed with fervent
Passions, sating flesh
The corridor of riparian quenching
Drenched, adrift the wayward isle
Once flowed freely of our wefting
Now as listless as its mooring
Obscured sediment in dawn’s exile
Sharing Is Caring:
Left to Desert
wafting ripples edging inward
when the sky had reached conclusion
treading long in earnest failing
foot sworn fate at rocky stream bed
spark embedded moment’s passing
left to right; in captive caption
trails grow cold and starburst shattered
at what great lengths do we now surface
only to return our silence
i stood watch for you; draped in new moon clashing
as all the wind found its resolve
Sharing Is Caring:
Precipitous Parting
i held you in my eyes of twine
heavy lidded, in heaven’s fallout
at the garden of impressioned impetus
were petals adrift of quelling aquarelle
destined for reveries resting on bezel
should rays of radiance concord
as does every elegy effuse essence
come astral flights of wastrel mien
crestfallen cries affecting acrimony
as chemicals crude, and ghost collide
solace sought in trails of tined stinging
when souls embark to hearken home
a breathless whisper winces wistfully
e’er stilled by stay of loss allayed
Max, or Not 