HYPNOTIZED

Beachside slave

Morning

Seashell ways

Spinning

The snail shell

Of life

Symmetry

Octagons

& vortex

Complexity

Of life

Distilled

When we simmer

Over the stove

Laying back

W our backs

To the past

Black, our faces

Into California fields

This electric fence

Keeps you from me

Baby girl

In my arms

Found washed up

On shocking shores

Blistered lips

Boarded up stores

Bleached sun

Swimsuit eagle

Covered hips

Sniffing

Beagles

Through the woods

We wandered

Over the hills

Far, far away

Choose & circle one

My dear in life

My tear-pretended wife

My sly deer blinded headlights

You will

Lose nothing

All gain-

Twisted panties

Churning pain

Unusual girl

Knee high boots

Dying fast

Stop trying

To last

Don’t hold back

One of us

Must let go

One of us

Just let

The cold snow

Fall, over

Our windshield

For you

The comfort

Of my winter

Staring through

The sheer nylon

Your tights

I remember

You are the knife

In my heart

Demand

Someone

As free as

I live

As to be

As did

When the summer

Of youth

Kissed young

My face

So wet

The older girls

Always took

My hand

Made bets

The days of sand

Taught

To lay

To kiss

Stay longer

And learn

Now the older

Man

I burn

Peppered hair

In the day

Smoldered

Into dawn

Baby, crows feet

Eyes touch

Hands meet

& you’re gone

Racing over

Towns

Delicate lace

Gowns

& pretty high

Heels keep you

High

Off the ground

Somewhere

I still reach

Somewhere

I still stay

Laying around

All day

Dreaming

Of a woman

Eye lined

Scouring

Dirt roads

Kicking heaves

To the side

Stuck in the

Gutter of love

Curled hair

Eyes heavy

Arms like doves

Smoke stacked lips

Hungry

As slaves on ships

& grey, lonely, scavenging

Crazed

Wolves

Waving

A fire hand

Wild

As the man

I once saw in the mirror

Years ago

Driving away

Just ride-

Into fire

Out from rain

I lick your

Transparent pain

Around the sun

As we walk down

These isles

Pretending

That this means nothing

Did you pray?

Cause I did

Every time you stayed

Why so scared

Move forward

The past is just that

Past / participle

Sedimentary

Rock / hard / sickled

Rust & bone

I’ll take flesh over stone

Every day

So, I ask again

Do you pray?

Cause I do

Every time you stay

The fox and the hound

Dear box: I’m bound

I see you through

Even where you don’t

I understand

You’re whole