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the breeding of strawberries

a tour of silhouettes holds your name in its mouth. 

summer’s grooves begin to wilt in the hands of the sun, with only travel and light remaining. north carolina is drowning. the whole of night dresses in your skin like dust or exhaustion mimicking the materialization of song: inevitable clay from a sunken brain. we become dolls we become houses lost in glass. 

we, all of us, are just visiting. shadows shaking,

hands.  

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a mime of sleep and a crow in august

eternity echoes like a lonely dust,
death for a beam of light 

music, shadow and
a stone still. 

a virginal hurricane 
humming with celestial lust

and electric longing.

I envy the bathwater that tastes your body
like a ribbon or a mirror tied into a bow

like a delicate lover of ash and bone,
a hidden skin catching a flame, 

crowding it with noise,
letting infinity bleed into you.

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Note: These poems originally appeared in issues two and three of Lachlan J. McDougall‘s D.O.R. | Issue Two | Issue Three. Much thanks to him.

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Update: Soon I will be releasing a small, limited edition book entitled 8 Poems, that will also include 8 original polaroids with every purchase. I am also in the process of starting a new magazine entitled Respirateur, a chess and art/literary magazine. The initial volume will be dedicated to the memory of GM Daniel Naroditsky.

Here on the blog I will be doing a new series of posts reading through the laureates of the Nobel Prize in Literature in an attempt to expand my literary horizons a bit. More details forthcoming.

Lastly, I am going to be putting all of my polaroids on sale very soon. They’ll be dirt cheap as I’m looking to raise money fast for a project I’m very excited to announce soon.

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