Verbal Foundlings

 

Free or blank

tomato

tomatto 

 

Without rhyme’s link

there’s no

bravado

 

The verse left orphaned

all kinship

spurned

 

As unconnected

words crash

— and burn

 

(The New Room: July, 2024)

 

 

Death Grip

 

The tighter

we hold on

The faster

— it slips away

 

(Dreamsleep: July, 2024)

 

 

Now Is Now

 

Freedom in the moment

the past is the past

Throwing off chains

— tomorrow recast

 

(Dreamsleep: August, 2024)

 

 

Reaching Back

 

Closer in the distance

than what endears my touch

I focus on your memory

— reclaimed in fated lust

 

(Dreamsleep: August, 2024)