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GTWS

i keep dread on the brittle boats that are sinking in

the foaming mouths of oceans

it’s the matter between the little ovals and circles

that are my mortar and savior

let me live a little longer

cause im a golden tidal wave of solutions

so we’re evil

it’s a rainy day

so we’re even

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I Will Return

I’m undressing cryptic words you wrote down 

by a cracked window in June 

watching the street bend through the glass

even though I would prefer you’d return

subtle hints of you are assembling in the dark

and swimming back to me like a shark

a train rushing through a dark

tunnel of beating hearts 

passing muscle and bone 

passing familiar faces in stone

we’re curled up in the Summer’s arms as we laugh 

we can count on it to shed our pride 

or set us off to sea with its mast

I know you would prefer that I had returned

but who wants to wait for their ships to sail  

while you watch them all gather rust 

attracted to hundreds of

muffled sounds distorted

in the marrow of bone

in the ovaries of nebula foam

a train rushing through a dark

tunnel of beating hearts 

passing muscle and bone 

passing familiar faces in stone

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Once One

I left tonight like smoke through a north-faced window 

into the street below

unable to shake the rub of the noises that keep me up

I’m leaving before the sun can choose to wake me up 

three stars in the sky are not enough 

my eyes have sought and trapped the drift in the trees I pass

and memory fades so fast 

unable to shake the rub of the noises that keep me up

I’m leaving before the sun can choose to wake me up 

three stars in the sky are not enough 

I am a dream ~ I am a dream ~ I am a dream

I can’t get home ~ can’t get back home ~ can’t get home

the night is systemic 

a slow dance is the motor of time 

and time is of memory 

I am a memory myself 

the mind is systemic 

a vaudeville stage in the radiant sky

time is a motor 

I am a motor as well

the night is systemic 

when you’re a somnambulist 

and time is of memory 

I am a memory myself 

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Myths on Rotting Ships

lightning through the stained glass 

that marbles fire across the eyelids 

when a million burning questions gather 

it churns out a maze of little cares 

I wave to myths on rotting ships at sea 

as I let them go, I breathe in deeply through the nose

a light captures the strayed mind

inside the middle of a spiral 

you say you want the root without the branches 

I reply I want everything that’s inside the head

I’m an animal most of the time

instinct : why would I let it go?

I breathe in signals through the nose

I wave to myths on rotting ships at sea 

as I let them go, I breathe in deeply through the nose

you can pull the wool over a lion’s eyes, but it sees

through a leak in the strands and a parting in the swaying grass

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Inside and Out

our eyes will never come back home

the world surrounds them like the sun surrounds the globe

a voice is speaking from the marrow of our bones

I know we can be all the rarer birds we’ve never known

I see a million water droplets on a window sill

I know they are outside, but they are a part of me

individuality will slowly surface once you’ve said in jest to yourself 

that you’ve cheated yourself 

all those long roads

that work us up and take the piss out of the self we leave in the wind

all those hard knocks

that work us up and take the piss out of the self we leave in the wind. Jah!

two undressing figures and no matter what we do we are a part of them

we cannot tell if we are us or them

in spending time in front of mirrors you plan and plot your ideal destiny

but that’s not everything that you want to be

pulled from the meadow like a handful of stalks 

in a place of beauty and no one else is ever there

pulled from the canyon like obsidian and salt

for only you 

and no one else is ever there when you get busy. Jah!

full of love

when distilled down simply, no one else is ever there

nuance of a pulse

true, it’s maybe just me, but i stand by words that discharge electric shock

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Mariana

I am a westward vessel of undivided motion

headed for the canyons of the modulating ocean

I will sail the narrows, pull treasure from their chambers

a prism raining atoms in strings of red and purple

a glass iris shows – a shattered display 

bending rushes tumble over coral reefs and chasms 

sonar drones are braiding into words I want to tell you

Mariana’s breathing, shifting currents in her darkness 

divers find me sleeping in her splatter painted shadows 

tonight the world can wait – and work can go hang

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Splay of Road

she came from Rome – she made us grow libertine settlements 

the splay of road, the tooth of drone, the smudge of memory 

the sharpest tongues that shave ancestral bones into the handle of 

an axe we throw into Limbo to watch the dark explode 

our egos grow aquatic clones on beaches staggering 

a light bestows the reef below with clues unravelling 

the water spoke : there are no gods with motives hovering 

give us an axe to throw into Limbo and watch the dark explode 

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An Absolute Light

how did I decide that I know you?

why did I decide that I’d tell you what to do?

a song isn’t over ‘till its hook stops your heart

a song isn’t over ‘till its bullet hits the mark

how did I decide that I know you?

why did I decide that I’d tell you what to do?

this song was made into a glowing briar of thorns 

this song was made to be gathered up in your arms 

Claws Overhead

it can be ashes on the peak of a storm
it can be a syntax on the tip of the tongue
we have been animals cleaning our bones
i can see it’s so close to shattering and it’s only begun

it’d be best to be with someone else
cause you have landed us under
it’s best to be with someone else
because i have decided it’s over

and soon claws overhead
will remove the lead from my chest
and soon worms in the grass
will consume the doubts that i have

it can be tangled in the whip of a storm
it can arrest, it can recoil the tongue
i will be nautical, cursing the shore
where the trees and nooses undulate in a summoning tone

it’d be best to be with someone else
cause you have landed us under
it’s best to be with someone else
because i have decided it’s over

and soon claws overhead
will remove the lead from my chest
and soon worms in the grass
will assume the dance in my head

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Open the Wormhole in Your Heart

a sun drives its rays down the road
a sky breaks the rays into rows
so chop me up i’m here to see inside
light laid on viscera and bone

ditch my pride and let my body go
cells collide and burst into a glow
picture frames and scenes i used to know
say the word, i’d easily let them go

the sun hides its face ‘till the dawn
we’re left black as coal once it’s gone
so chop me up i’m here to bleed the light
bright sprays of viscera and bone

sun went down, i loom back to a town
a lurid sky became an open mouth
blinking clouds with teeth covered in gold
scream the words i needed years ago 

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Resignation Rights

in the background, i sit and bathe in the night
and i make the most of a gunning rain in the sky

and i thought the rain would never break
and i thought the rain would never break
and i thought the rain would never break
and i thought the rain would never break

and we will be all, we’ll be all
woohoo.
and we will be all, we’ll be all
woohoo.

under a cape sky, troubles weigh on the brow
so i send my thoughts to rearrange in the clouds

even if the clouds can’t promise things
and i know the clouds can’t promise things
even if the clouds can’t promise things
and i know the clouds can’t promise things


and we will be all, we’ll be all
woohoo.
and we will be all, we’ll be all
woohoo.
and we will be all, we’ll be all
woohoo.
and we will be all, we’ll be all
woohoo.

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So Sick of the Sun

i’m so sick of the sun
i’m so sick of the rain
come near to me
won’t you forget my name

…

i feel the sharpest sting
watching you unfold
in the summer breeze
you’re growing old

…

i wanted to change
you wanted to stay the same
we’ll never meet
in the wind we sway

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Without A Dancer

shapes chained by the eyes
hunt bleeding in tow
wriggling on it’s side
cross bled and mopped

strange placement un-paused 
without a dancer, my love, it wanders and crawls 
strained placement un-paused 
without a dancer, my love, it wanders and crawls 

tracks carved in blue light
ribs curling inside
hounds outside the door
the dark opens so wide

strange placement un-paused 
without a dancer, my love, it wanders and crawls 
strained placement un-paused 
without a dancer, my love, it wanders and crawls 
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Uncut Diamond
 
flames stream behind
a lion chasing antelope
then it slashed my heart
and all the chases i’d been on
were rushing waves of mauve 
so many sails catch the squall
and deep cave mouths provide a light
spitting bone colored light on stone
 
new dreams crawl backwards
 
the flame’s alive
i’m there chasing antelope
as they cross my eye
all the chases i’ve been 
rush into my mind
so many sails fill and pull
and the caves ignite again
there, an uncut diamond shone 
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Let My Angst Unfold in the Water Like a Hound’s Tongue 

show me the dark 
i’ll put a bullet between the serpent’s two black eyes 
the broken road can be so long
leaving me wide eyed and silver tongued

and if we’re gonna do this
to get through this
we need to find the water 
and once we’re through it
to undo it
we need to find the lighthouse 

light beams that toss inside
with movements i cant hide, returning to your eyes
lightening bursts of foulness that paint the ether red
then comes a grumbling thunder

and if we’re gonna do this
to get through this
we need to find the water 
and once we’re through it
to undo it
we need to find the lighthouse 

in the shadows
there is a flicker
in the silence 
there is a wild call …
just for me

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