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Hummingbird mama
abandons her nonviable eggs —
but keeps checking back
a few more times, just to be sure.
An arm falls from a sickly saguaro
and breaks open on the ground
like a prickly green eggshell —
after decades of desert still-life
a few seconds of death-motion.
But the night breeze is so beautiful
those breezes are — so beautiful
it’s hard not to get swept away.
Even the sun can’t shine on an entire world at once.
you & i are animal lust
spirit and human emotion
entangled in wild passion
you always touch my heart first
but still find every last place
breaths rise, sweat falls
mine, yours, who knows
bodies wise, minds numb
wills weak, feelings, reveal
speak easy, softly, love
at the tips of our tongues
whisper nothings, give everything
our lips link each other’s souls
with kisses blind, rough and kind
fierce fervor, fever, fire, hot desire
flesh burning, hungering, yearning
begging, seeking, pleasing, please
prey of your hands and at my knees
inhale, exhale, scents, intense
assent, consent, relent, unpent
sweet chords, rhythm, rhapsody
harmony, symphony, crescendo
poetry is combat—
soul verses world
Age is like the latest version of a software — it has a bunch of great new features but you lost all the cool features the previous version had.
Flowers rewrite soil, rain, and sunshine into petal’d poetry.
Don’t trade your life for just an empty hourglass.
i am so many people
it’s impossible to be myself
but i can almost always
be at least one of myselves
snowflakes fall from the sky
in peppermint perfection —
i kiss you with quivering lips
but cold is not the reason —
you set my winter heart on fire
and keep me warm all season
The secret to wellness is being your own guardian angel.
Winter in Phoenix is springtime
Spring is summer askew
Summer is torturous hellfire
Autumn is summer part II
Regrets —
those ghosts
of action
that haunt
our thoughts
we are every moment of life
living in crosshairs of death