imagine me carrying you halfway across the earth
in a million different hang on tight patterns

you are light as a feather heavy as my sentences,
you float on my compliments
about your big thoughts
and shiny eyes


i would carry you everywhere my spine will
let me
sing sunday porch
i will rest when it is time

maybe after so many years






yes, the rain it hurts my bones, but

when i see one drop dive out of the sky onto
your shirt
and when i watch it disappear and absorb fast
into the fabric and mesh

i want to do that with you.


houdini rain
fade into each other's pores
camouflage skin

i want my wayward branches so tangled
so twisted up in yours the sun's beaming stare
could not separate shaky me from
steady you.


jump high into my limbs Porcelaine
be careful
you're well-known for breaking easy & being delicate
delegate,


vote for love this year.
vote for taking back our castle

kingdoms for the courts
we marched around the planet for this

i'm holding your hand at the drawbridge
we're making a basket out of them.

08/18/2009

Author's Note: he walks up to the rampart and says, "everything is a little less royal and a little more catastrophic"

Posted on 08/19/2009
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