screaming at low volumes
jgtaylor The rain comes and goes. The days, too. I wonder at the trees, The ornate wild flowers … how have they never lost hope? It is forever lost and found … Much like forgiveness: Train rides to the edge of the earth Return on the Great Ocean Liners. All the while we’ve never gotten out … Read moreNothing
I want it all, and why shouldn’t i? it is so sublime, only the insane would refuse. I want you! on a sunday afternoon, lazy in sunbeams while desert dunes whip. And when I go, I want you, bittersweet in empty sheets your voice still pure in my mind. We’ll sing on bridges to worlds … Read moreI want
her voice is ghostly, breathy and light: No one has ever pronounced the “H” in Thank You before. And the softness, the gentleness: were it the voice of an inquisitor one might be inclined to tell life stories. The conversation is not important; they rarely are – but the kindness conveyed in her tone betrays … Read morethe H in thank you
i wish you would tell me beautiful things. and you do. More beautiful than I can conceive. and still I am sour and dour and unremarkable. i would tell you of the disarray, the fear of losing it all if you wouldn’t pin it so squarely, so rightly upon my breast. It is what soldiers … Read moreand we never fought
i said that the Indians had their culture stolen, and then thrown away by the thieves. She was lighting a cigarette. she said she thought i had the wrong Idea. there had been several bottles of wine, and several joints. There had even been tequila. i leaned back and put my feet on the table. … Read morethings easier than
the night’s silence strips bare the screams of hearts lost, while rain pours down we declare, Love’s residue cleanly washed. Our souls no longer burdened, our feet free to roam: where shall we send the heart, when the heart has no home? And in the evening hours, the twilight dwindling grey, the whores of Babel’s … Read morethe residue of loving
Write me a song poetess of my dreams. No one else will. Milk Maid’s skin pale in the candle light sing me a song — at the very least. — — it’s enough, I suppose, to drink the beer you poured. (steal glances tipping the bottle up) you may never know the light you bring … Read moreOde to a lost bartender