afterburn

when I drifted I cannot remember into the throb of unrelenting impulse then engulfed, captive to the spectacle within relief ever closer, yet never in grasp words dripped from my throat, glutted like voluptuous beads of nectar, heavy hanging in lush garlands, suspended then released shattering into fragments of truth at my feet driven into […]

summons

fierce young man stone-faced, with warrior gaze uninitiated on the battlefield uncertain of your foe your enemy is upon you but is unrecognizable to you you will not see it advancing this time until it is too late for this rival you cannot prepare with flintlock, with sword or with any man-made weapon though you […]

our stellar evolution

You, with your relative youth your pout, your upward gaze. A young stellar object. And me, in front of you by decades. I see you as if in a mirror, behind me coming up fast in your body a month now perhaps for every year I’ve practiced being alive. I’m a supernova to your protostar. […]