Suffering is purity All human entanglement Distilled to concentrates Elements to be reasoned upon Reckoned with Consumed by Leaving one life with trashbags in hand Filled with memories Longing for space in the new and different Or yearning for annihilation Freedom from the traipsing gait Of so many clustered failures Spilled out like constellations Outlines…

Lights up my spine like hotel windows Street lamps that never dampen The racing electrical impulses Breathe nerve into the moment Measure being by the wine glass Your friends are your worst enemies There is only you and I Silence and sound 3 pounds of grey matter Overflowing with so Much Noise What is the…

Interlacing fields form the frame Predictive algorithms construct the image Where are you in it There is only me, The itinerant idiot Toiling away at the heart Far from reason I let this become my image Again Endless apologies thread the signal All this but for bad dreams And emptiness I burn this wicker effigy…

Whiskey in the dark Straight No chaser but the memories of an old man Defining a pattern to follow To actualize in the after Knowing better yet knowing that knowing so holds no relevance in the solipsistic ego I can see your face now, old man, More clearly than when you stood before me Wavering…

A million conversations intertwining and unwinding within the cave of my skull Always it is this way The thoughts reflect back from the bone walls Echoes, trembling in the dark And what little light is present reveals ancient carvings, primitive drawings and verses scrawled and etched into every illuminated surface Longing for an answer, a…

Underneath everything Dear John Resting at the seat of the conscious meter, Recording wordlessly the joules of this human condition In the shape of me and my patterns, Learned and unlearned Dear John Upon that throne of knowing Silently observing The endless meandering of my wound up windings You are still here, There, A virtual…

Climbing up through and through the vines and tentacles, Watching with primate abandon The arthropods lovingly traverse the earth, Free for a moment of this isocortical cell, Breathing in the beam of gods scattered gaze Here in the light I find myself, Warm and present, Separate from the dark filamentary, Awake for this singular moment…

All these states of matter Along orbital shells I loop ionic Traveling between valence rings In the great transfer of energy, The primordial flow of everything Through clouds of probability I condense into a moment, A vast measure of existence Held within a single breath, Then release and repeat I am removed and returned In…

Hot coke in the sun Another day where best intentions Vaporize before you Why listen when there’s so much in silence Chemical warfare explodes Flooding these galactic reservoirs Dimensional nodes electric The great struggle to remain A Prisoner of the Body Molecules expire in waning breaths Stars shiver in their dark cavities And all in…

In the transits of stellar witness do I find myself So small Minute A speck of energy in the great exchange Radiating outward this hidden light within Heat Trapped and anxious Hitching for a ride home Red waves penetrate the night Shifted Curving along the path of greater objects Locked in their own orbits of…