Words seem scarce these days

I can’t focus on what’s in front of melong enough to find a subjectmy mind always seems to followmy heartand thoughts lead to Romenow that my sister is marriedand my throat burns dry

What just happened

inside of me?I felt my body miss youthen my digestive systemdistracted me.I grabbed a penand my notebookto write aboutthe way thatthe thought ofyoumakes me feel. AND THIS IS WHAT HAPPENED

just a bit of physical reciprocation

I’ll settle for a fractionor an indefinite decimaljust help me out a bit pleaseI know we’re trying to help ourselvesbut we hurt each otherbut we make each other feel goodbut we want such different thingsbut we want the same thingI know you want meyou know I want youI know I want youyou know you want […]

used tissue

is it the [faint reverberation]of pain in your voice that speaks to me?[flowing][creeping] past my ears, into the fogof latencywhere you shine no lightbut are willingto explore in darkness feel your way through the mistwith your broken fleshstretched and torn:scars that hide your scarsuntil you feel my gazeand relight your eyes as you press your […]

I felt the light

reflected off of theperigee-syzygy of the Earth-Moon-Sun systemthe heavens shoneso bright that only the darkestof clouds could do anythingto veil it’s glowas I felt the weight of my selfweighedagainst the weight of the world the grass felt strangeI could not tell if it was the grassor my handswhose composition has changedso muchthat the hill of […]

Not what I wanted to write

It is a strange state of beingto feel: to taste the remnants of your mealsscrubbed off your teethmixed with the minty flavored chemicalsthat may or may not be giving you cancer. to spit them outand watch them flow down the drainto undergo some sort of“treatment process”and come out of someone else’s faucetwhere it may or […]

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