We ran in the solicitous fields Caressed by the fingers of Romulus Each rhizome a mythos Until the voice of hidden rivers was knownDid you feel the moments of other universes? Apartments near the brewery And beheld a home that … Continue reading Romulus’ Touch
She is a vortex of sound, As the sun paints the tops of tree And a bird struts confidently on the lawn Now all is silent, Save my rattling breath Not the way an Old Man once struggled I’m losing … Continue reading Anthem for Vortex
I wandered beyond the reach of the day after yesterday Found cherries wild by the river and a man who twitched with regret Needed time and received it squandered nothing and still felt the pang of how the glaciers retreated … Continue reading The Day after Yesterday
This fractured earth is a caramel deconstruction Fated to rise beyond the kiss you gave Turn into crisp fragments of reminiscenceSome days we cannot feel the ground at our feet for laughing Feel to the sky Walked sightless into cathedrals Continue reading Fractured Earth
Few of these Empires and too many of these rivers are content a train rose to a state of loss, faster and faster the labels of travel passed. Lost the hours, lost the way to my doorway, lost the falling … Continue reading From Ljubljana to Bled
We walked on frozen lava, waded into molten snowflakes, living as though we would die at any minute. Brushed our fingers sensuously in an affair with Alpine lawns, tasted the sunlight and ocean captured into solid matter. Feel silent in … Continue reading Grew Tired, Could not Sleep
June 2013 in Vienna, and the Karlskirche rises in front of us, stretching some 70m above into the cloud streaked morning sky. Facing it stands a large elegant tree, encircled by wooden benches whose green paint is flaking away in … Continue reading The World Coming to Life
The forest has shrugged off the cloak of night-cold that beset our journey’s beginning, and the filtered green light of the forest provides a welcome relief from the incongruous summer heat on the mountain. A wooden sign tell us that … Continue reading Somewhere Far Deeper
We are not certain – we never seem to be these days. Somewhere in the measure of time between adolescence and adulthood all that brash self-confidence ebbed away and we longed to be the thing we always railed against – … Continue reading Advice for the Dying
The pale purple even Melts around thy flight; Like a star of Heaven, In the broad day-light Percy Bysshe Shelley There’s this moment where the plane is coming in low enough and we break through the blanket of clouds and … Continue reading Descent
Sometimes it feels like a labyrinth in the open air bounded by expectations everything is angles and sharp turns The sky opens up in your sight and everything is smooth curves There they married There we rode to the arms … Continue reading 10926
A cold water night All the blankets A tier of nickel, roses Are in their serried ranks His hugs came unexpected His laughter an ancient river A memorial of the spring Not Baby deer and bluebirdsBut enough Oh, me, the … Continue reading Nothing to cry about
I am running swift as a dreamer I am horse and carriage The sound of something precious, growing is building empires, Heavy traffic drowns his sound I’m not a hero, found my emerald marriage Another pair of eyes, all inside … Continue reading Found my Emerald Marriage
Across the floor, underfoot In my bed and in my eyes Shivering on distant shores She never saw the sun that day Petal awards, liberated from scent And all these particles Dragged from the reefs So long ago, Glue to … Continue reading Grit
We stopped in Ljubljana on our way to our next honeymoon destination, and the revelation of barely knowing a place existed and 15 minutes later falling in love with it totally is something I want to keep forever. We sat … Continue reading Ljubljana
Blaze of Obscurity 