zinc words & images

  • Corner locations

    we take place take our places migrate just out of reach though we don’t dig, we are buried up to our chests in silence our chests silent for a moment and we gain our breath holding it against our skin a barrier that moves like sorrow collapses revives and collapses again forget our cardinal twining…

  • Stop before start

    Left me alone. I found a way. Not your pleasure or your preference. My meaning steadfast. Heart beating. Body providing joy. You’re the shadow that falls behind me. I make my way. Knowing. Certainty costs. Retain my pride. Cradle love. Write letters to no one. Feel the waning moment under my shoe.  

  • Phone call

    Capture the time I called In your hands and listen Like you would if a bee Were trapped there. Vibrations against the Soft, fleshiness of your palm. My voice, though, falling between And through your fingers. You can’t pinpoint The time I stopped calling, But remember the first call Vividly.

  • April 21

    I love the urgent pressure between spine and stern that requires me to fold you into my body bring you closer smother and consume you bury you along my ribs and raise a monument to your existence in my belly. Balancing on a pebble leaving time and digging fingernails deep into decay and reliving the…