enjamb that lin

eenjamb this linepaint a metaphorI just didrecognize the arbitrariness of wordsunderstand that utterance is not iconic of meaningplay a song in your headplay a song on this pagethis is upside downdn ǝpᴉsʇɥƃᴉɹ sᴉ sᴉɥʇI am omniscient in this notebookuntil you read itthen you take my omnipotencyand I am impotentuntil you take my hand

The Texture of Texture

texture of my braintexture of my mindtexture of a photograph of the beachtexture of a painting of the oceantexture of sandtexture of the seatexture of a grain of sandtexture of a drop of watertexture of painttexture of glosstexture of my fingertexture of yourstexture of youtexture of fabrictexture of the fabric of realitytexture of the fabric […]

Another Song for You

A patch of green grassamidst a field of sunflowersa bright sun shining overheadis the only way to count the hours our basket is openour blanket is spreada cool breeze dancesthrough the hairs on our head we feed each other grapesbananas pineapples and pearsnothing belongs to one of useverything is shared tortilla chips and pitawhich we […]

I feel your fingers in the breeze

as it danceson my fleshthe wind carriesyour voiceto my earsand down into medeep insideto that long forsaken placeclosed off to the worldfor a yearthe old wooden cigar boxsealed shut for so longbut the wind is beginningto flow through the crackswill I be able tolet you in?will I let youread everything?you say you share my painbut […]

When words come slowly practice your handwriting

ink on the pageis an actor on stagebut words aren’t always truelike a guitar slightly out of tunemetaphors and analogiespainting with imagerycan we createor only imitatereduplicate?is choice an illusionbecause everything is determinedor am I just lost in confusion man instills meaning and valuebut what does value mean?are we all aloneor are we a team?what have […]

built to spill

He was a sad manstrumming his guitarsweetlyangrilyslowlythen fast againmy best friend and iwatched him playand took solace in the shade,the shadow castas the sun setover the harborfound comfortin his voicesingingbeautifullypainfullyunderstanding wordsfilling the airwavesbooming out overthis gathering of peopleand words of gratitudefor everyonethank you

The sweetest contaminate:

a benevolent disruption of logicvoicing her passionsas her nimble fingers manipulate,no,create,projecting herself into this worldand into my arms. I heard birds squawking;She listened to their song.I prove myself with reason;She proves herself with colors. But this is illogical,and I’m all shades of grey. So why do our hands keep finding each other?And why are our […]

how to use:

as common as carbon is a poetic stream of consciousness.
there are 3 categories of “poems”:

(i) heteroglossic synesthesia (complete poems)
(ii) hobonyms (words with no homes)
(iii) mind jerky (thoughts to chew on)

after reading a poem you have 3 options to “turn the page”

“RANDOM” – takes you to a random poetic expression
#hastags – take you to another random poem with the same theme or motif
#category – takes you to a random poem in the same category

“no one can step in the same river twice, for it’s not the same river and they are not the same person” – possibly Heraclitus

just as no one can step in the same river twice, no one can have the same experience of “as common as carbon” twice