Thoughts on Thoughts

I am Captain Insomnia.  My super power is the ability to stay awake forever.  Sometimes I just can’t get my brain to shut the hell up.  It’s probably clinical and can be treated with a pill which will destroy other parts of my life.  Fuck, anything I write seems self-servingly lame.  Part of my problem is that I’ve been destroyed by the passing of a person from my life.  Good friend, a love, someone I never wanted to be without.  There are smears of black... Read More

If you forget me

I want you to know one thing. You know how this is: if I look at the crystal moon, at the red branch of the slow autumn at my window, if I touch near the fire the impalpable ash or the wrinkled body of the log, everything carries me to you, as if everything that exists, aromas, light, metals, were little boats that sail toward those isles of yours that wait for me. Well, now, if little by little you stop loving me I shall stop loving you little by little. If suddenly you forget... Read More

Plump Berries

First I saw the cherry. Then I saw the long dark sweet ink trickling entangled down her creamy curves. Should I spoil her freshly fallen field of pale snow? Would I ever recover from sinfully sampling her unsophisticated sensuality? A hellfire might await me after such a kiss, or a preacher’s bliss. Such fires could flavor life forever. Melted in my controversy, embroiled in the fueled fury of indecision, unbroken in my desire, I take to the skies surely seeing soaring... Read More