Pricks and pinches, slices and sores. I’m full of empty unless you count pain. I’ve enough of that to spread around. Holes and hideouts, deserts and dungeons. I’m lost among familiars, their faces poking into a reality empty of full. Shattered and shaken, busted and broken. I’m a mirror in pieces on a dirty floor, […]
We are just bones. Bones and blood, cells living, multiplying, dying. We are just skin and arms and eyes. Pieces puzzled together to make us people. Humans walking around in skin we don’t like speaking in voices we aren’t sure are our own. We exist. Until we don’t. And then we’re more than flesh, more […]
I don’t know if this email works. I don’t know if you even exist anymore, if you really existed at all, or if any of it was ever real. I just know I miss you beyond words and I would give anything to talk to you again. *** I just sent this to him. It’s […]
Buzzing, a hammering in my brain but deeper. Shaking, twisting around my insides, and I just need it to stop. I scream for it to stop. “You did nothing wrong!” “Everything’s fine!” But it screams right back in my face and I somehow know it’s right. I’m waiting for the basket to get too full, […]
It was the day after the Fourth of July when I watched you walk away from me for the first time. Clouds brushed the sky with gray while the sun peeked over the mountains, and you turned and waved while tears fell in torrents from my eyes. May fifth was the day I saw your […]
I close my eyes and let the music move in, let it thrum through thoughts I didn’t know I had. * * * You stood in the rain once telling me not to go, saying sorry to car windows, and I thought I couldn’t get any sadder than that moment. I watched your resolute face […]
I ache in my bones, in my skin, in my brain. I ache for you, the pool of anguish reaching my mouth, flowing into my nose, suffocating my sanity with pain, with craving strong enough to burn me. My cinders will float on the waves of my agony, swim in this lava lake of desire, […]
Pieces of you are stuck in me, jutting out in raw edges, steep falls, and you’re still such a mystery even though you’ve managed to lodge yourself in my insides. It seems like I should know all your parts since I feel them itching beneath, in each muscle, each move. You wake me with words. […]
I’ve lost something. Something important, fundamental even, but I’m not sure what it is or was. I just know it’s gone. I thought it was you or him or maybe someone else all together, but it’s not him and I’ll never know if it’s you, so maybe it’s not a person so much as a […]
Too complicated to explain, to understand. What happened to fidelity, to change? To being a better person? To honor and growing up? What about these is too complicated to explain? Has she done something? Have you? Do you miss the pieces you break from me, the ones I send you in tiny messages filled with […]
The Writer's Adventure
He was so ugly that everybody died. The end!
An engineered explosion of erroneous exposition.
...becoming the glory within
composed late at night, from amongst chaos and coffee
Poetry for Girls & Monsters
Fun for the whole asylum!
Darren Hawbrook
Get Your Keys, Grab Your Coat.
A rather droll affair
Shattered long ago...
Understanding someone’s way with words isn’t as simple as you think.
poetry w/teeth
Two old men write poetry, short stories and other things
Where are you John Bender...
My Imagination is the DEVIL on my shoulder
No, this blog is not about love.
