Séances

1 My eyes droop with the heaviness of my sins and times laid bare in séances that compelled forth reminiscences. They filled each one, the empty chairs placed in the grand hall for the dead to fill "Come sit with me", someone said, and I laid bare my all, in memories. One by one recollecting…

Winter

Come now,Embrace the windBrave it, you know howShed your leaves, you have beforeHave let me down like your very boughs Let me curl up like brown, crushed leavesLet me lay down my burdens and die too.Promise me a fresh start, when the season's doneWhen bells begin to ring and Spring's dawnalights upon the hallowed groundMy…

That 90’s kid

Image from Pinterest Maybe I'll dial your number on the landlineand sip coca cola in a cool restaurantwhere they only play Michael Jackson and Backstreet Boys;watching people in flannels and striped shirts cross the roadwith beads in their hair, in every colour known to manOr get techno in a neon overloadwearing those glow-in-the-dark sneakersTurn my…

Sweet, seductive Sorrow

Sweet, seductive Sorrow, your ivy leaves climb slowly upon me... Intoxicated and charmed I float higher, teasing you to catch up... and you always do. A world of dark mesh, withering red petals, and bold, unrelenting thorns; I wither too, then, fain, into your arms; that my teardrops may touch you in the dewy, dark…

THE PRINCESS AND THE DOVE

Today I heard the cooing of a dove… in the same melodious sing-song way as that blessed hour when I had heard one three years ago in that Winter’s morn… The chilly mists rose up the towers, with a vague warning, signaling ‘twere better one kept the windows shut; for one’s submission unto the damp…