torn labels

I continually fell on my hands in th garden
weeds wrapd in layers around my body
let myself be buryd and waitd for flowers
to grow – but only red shoots of anger
penetrated th black earth

            I let them grow

reemerged from th soil under a blue sun
went back in th house and drank a pint
of whiskey. half asleep
in front of th television I dreamd of my father
being mauld by a bear –
he did not struggle as I would have liked him to
but his boots kickd th coals
I thought dead
and turnd me over again

I took to th hum
of tires on pavement – another fist in th fight
another face in th fire 

8 th’anonymity of a stain          passing on a double line             weary eyed

            no future                                     in a dead world
            current heaven                            telefoto blue

oh there were nights. th fragile
hangover. too late opend th front door
and faeries blew in. some small and quiet like mice,
others monstrous shadows

some nights turnd desire into pain
girls hung onto th jagd cliffs of bone as I roard at
crimson horizons from my front door
strangers at two a.m. bare-chestd and bleeding
come in. comets, cigarettes
and heart burn

                                               awake to a grande. pink barrista, I feel
                                               nervously alive as yr words rush over me
                                               like steamd milk
                                               staring deep
                                               into th fate of coffee cups

by afternoon pick up at th battle of melancholia
a truly romantic battle – on th misty moors of

black June killer mumbles august, love, moves on,
says october solar system seems empty

creep  creep     creep       creep in too        young    ex      plosions

                                       [ iron me
                                       high in a tree
                                       steel cables spun around
                                       and around me ]

# posted by hardyf : 10:32