Jawin' At The Coffee Shop

They sat in a smoky dusk watching traffic.  Caffeine in their cups and cigarettes jammed between fingers covered in grime and scars. They laughed about anything, just jawing' at the coffee shop.

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The Silly Things

Just love me

shells and the sea

damp summer on a bubble gum day

candy in your eyes

love me

yellow petal and a bee

sugar tongue

love me a little

autumn comes

throwing rainbow trees

kiss me

lips like flames

love me

shiny penny moon

snow on the beach

love me

i'm an angel 

i saw you 

i am stuck on 

you saw me too

love me?

Thoughts From The Shower

My heart is broken it's like a stone
i tossed it to the sea
watching the rings run

i threw my shredded soul to the sky
watching its ribbon spirit fly
straight to the sun

you never said goodbye to me
you were something, then you were none
i watch the rings run and my soul catch fire in the sun

It Never Ends

I know i've gone too far

so i ask 

what will you do

with the scars i carved on you

you won't tell me how it hurts

you won't tell me that i'm cruel

but i know i've gone too far

every time i look at you

what if i make a promise

a promise that is true

written in love letters i address to you

but i think i've gone too far

silence kills our laughter

what will you do

with the scars i carved on you

tell me that i'm cruel

let those letters burn

just burn the love i wrote to you

can you see a happy ending

do you find me cruel

for the love i took from you

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October sends wind to rip colorful leaves from the limbs. I rush through changing woods to find a place among half-buried stone where I watch swirling leaves fall. 

I am riding the dirt bike like a cautious bandit, getting better, bolder, and more secure. Maybe next year I'll wend through rippling autumn on a little motorcycle.

Worry Stone

I drew I love you in the sand 

the waves took it away

you're a shadow 

an ache somewhere 

you're a rock in my heart

a stone i should throw

instead, i drew your name in the sand

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Southbury:

An icy moon hung above their silhouettes -- black satin lovers punched from a sheet of traffic haze at dinnertime on a Tuesday. They'll go home to bake a chicken, toss butter on baby carrots, and fall asleep wound around one another as if they never intend to let go.

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So Says The Sky

As lightning lights and the frightening frights

a storm comes crashing in

on thunder feet and whipping wind

a storm comes whistling in

its wild torrents swelling 

rushing runnels pouring

rain forever whispering

that it's storming once again

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Walking through a lingering summer warmth that these days easily fades, I know she's searching for a place to sleep as shadows steal the day away with an eager dusk. Autumn wakes.

I've got no name for this

a thousand times i think of you

little rips and tears

but who cares

you had that something

sunlight and diamonds

silver spilling off the moon 

you slipped through my hands

but for a little while i was there

you were something slicing through me

a million spinning blades

never mind this ache

never mind this empty hollow

for a little while i was there

with sunlight and diamonds

An Old Friend

He remembers me like i'm still there

says he feels me near

where summer's candy sunsets bled 

but that was a thousand yesterdays

the rest of it was coming

autumn's cinnamon footsteps creeping

toward bad luck and shattered dreaming

back then, when I was there

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Orion fell sideways across a black September sky near dawn, a sign of summer ending.