Refraction

I am a refraction of light
Broken and bent
Bending or kneeling
Slow or intent
Picasso eyes and mouths
Brows or scowls
I am fractured
In light
A displaced shoulder
A broken straw
An unreachable seashell
So out of reach they shall
Never
Find
Me

Dora Maar au Chat Picasso 1941

Words

Words can weave
A wicked song
Wrapped in roses
And hiding the thorns

Lying fast
Slowing the truth
Grinning sideways
And playing the fool

Infatuation

These eyes have seen my eyes
That others' eyes have called sublime
Those eyes don't mean your eyes
Are any less divine than mine

And my eyes seeing your eyes
That others eyes have laid eyes on
That others eyes have cried upon
Suits my eyes to see your eyes just fine

Eyes Wide Shut

Go ahead
And sing to me
Your sweetest tune
Of ecstasy
Your painful hush
Of agony
Your broken stab
At chivalry

I will listen
With shuttered eyes
Believe your tune
Embrace your lies
Mirror your hush
And alibis
Ignore the stab
Of blood stained tries

Our empty chests
Still heave from wounds
Our darkened eyes
Project our doom

Yet I give to you
My soul to take
It's yours to love
Or yours to break

Spiral

Try as I might

I am stuck

Between

Darkness and night

I am caught

Between

Somber and gloom

Spiraling

Between

Death and the womb

Gretchen

Margaret.

Give not your self.

Cloven feet

Tramp about.

Love 

Does not devour

The heart

It releases the soul.