Displacer Of Air

Ever meet someone 

who just sucks the oxygen 

out of a room 

yet still is able 

to not shut up 

They feed on the discomfort of others 

like a vampiric hemophiliac 

ingesting forced attention 

excreting a load of themselves 

The room is filled with muddy water 

a get-a-way is slogging at best 

and they move through it freely 

oblivious 

gluttonous 

gorged 

February 25, 2019

Someone Else's Escape

Then the flattened trees 

flipping from one to the other 

following drops of pigment 

placed carefully 

symbols that became a trail 

a journey laid out 

maybe long ago 

maybe last year 

And how many went before 

then passed this second-hand path on 

to be sold on the cheap 

to bound escape-artist junkies 

February 18, 2019

Bed & Bone

We fight getting in it

then

it’s where we please ourselves

and please others

it holds us

when we’re ill

hides us

when there’s nothing

we want to face

It supports our outsides

breaks occasionally

like our insides

grows old

grows brittle

and when we’re lucky

we die together

February 11, 2019

Mundane Mundus World

We touch each other than we’re gone 

not shadows 

but velvet 

we don’t pass in the night 

but caress on by 

that little shiver 

so mundane 

should be our world 

February 4, 2019