There is a light

Shining forthFrom RomeI feel it’s raysTrans-continental beamsBeckoningHopeGoodnessLoveI struggle inThe warmth of the sunI am a skyGreyAnd dense with fogYou shine your lightAmidst, throughoutA rainbow of colorOn an overcast dayRain or shineYou’ll still be mineThrough calms and stormsI’ll still be yoursThrough droughts and showersThe world will still be ours

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 […]

in circles

Meet me therein that placethat does not existin time or space meet me therewhere desire is untamedand what we feelneed not be named meet me therewhere we need no reason nor rhymeand never need acquiesceto the oppression of time meet me therein that place that is only ourswhere we don’t have to shareour sky or […]

the oddest light

The sky is darkin that strange hourbefore dawnwhere some are still upand some are just risingfinding illumination from the moonand the city lightsthe tracks below uscontrolling our destinationrattle and vibrateyou

This is bad

When was it,exactly,that I started believing people could beGoodagain? Was it after thefifth beer? Or after that shot ofwhatever the fuck? Or maybe it wassome other event,conversation,occurrence,marked by human interaction,rather thanostracized gulpsof self-prescribed medication. Well,it was definitely before I returned homealone. We are all here.Sharing this life,this time,this place. But the truth iswe are all […]

Out of sight

What is in front of me is not always what occupies my thoughts. They tend to wander to distant unreachable places: fantasies, delusions of grandeur, wishful dreaming, wistful thinking. Envious of those able to stave off melancholy with hope, passion, appreciation, syzygy,  all I have is a double-edged sword inscribed with: “curiosity.” How to wield […]

An Ode to My Friend

we’ll start off in quantifiable terminology Over the past few months, you became my best friend.One of the few that would indulge my pseudomeaningful babble.We spoke over Bananagrams, tea, and nicotine til 5amand turned to beseech the sun:Please, just…don’t.You allowed me to present my chain of reasoning that proposes Zeno did not hand us a […]

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