Hands like houses

I wonder, can you daydream at night? Lying awake, I've had too much time. I'm watching picture shows in the shadows Dance for the crowd tonight. Imagination is such a vivid place to hide, While stars...

We get in our own way, tripping on our feet. Filling up our heads too much with words too hard to speak. Drowning in a place, where the night can not escape, Commit ourselves into the depths, exposed...

There’s better ways for us to waste our days, Than returning stares that we borrowed for too long. For too long, swallowed up by an empty page. What starvation feeds you, devourer Of the words of a...

This is where we fall, Sleepers scattered in the soil A finger deep, dragged through the ground A blessed thought in harrowed halls. We could think of nothing else But what our patch of earth...

To know your every detail is a lifetime, A story to tell with a touch. Every move is a reaction, Every kiss is a reason, a rush. You're my muse and you're my masterpiece, My canvas and my chemistry,...

It starts with a spark, a breath and a moment of still, A flicker, a glow, as the oxygen spills Through a delta of spindles and stone, Kindled from nothing in a whisper of smoke. There a gift ignites;...

This is happiness, to be everything at once. Be unblinded, be unlearned, be unbridled and unburned. Heavy on our heels, the rocky ground we leave behind. Tassels streaming from our necks, we cast a...

I'm down below where the floor is out of focus, Pent up and played down, rained in and worn out, Picking away at the studs in the boards. They're all too familiar. I've been here before. The air is...

Here I am. The hammer strikes one, two, three. I'm impatiently tapping my feet In a murmuring room full of critics and fakers, All waiting to take their seat. The focus of the room, all bating breath,...

There's no more wind to be found in the sails. Hands full of fallen stars, and comet tails. Rivers of sand unentwine through my hands. To know what they've seen, well, my burdens all pale. I'll make...