zinc words & images

  • Keep it close

    All these things are fantasy. Arm in arm, hand in hand, a thousand moments projected into the future and onto your skin, quiet and intense. Calling my name from across the room. Hearing your music, your patient artistry, fill our space and dovetail itself onto my heart. Dawn takes us, its sleepy charges, and aims…

  • Touch

    I lay my hand across my collarbone and render a dream. Un- real, my hand is yours and the air around us is velvet. Your smell fills my brain and I am wasted. Your secrets become mine-shared when I touch your hand or when I awaken to your eyes on me. It is both night…

  • In the Margins

    My fingers on paper losing their way. I draw circles around you, the empty middle is where my imagination lies.

  • Empty text

    I don’t have the skills or the grace to do this, to know what to do to keep you connected despite our distance. Letters and phones seem insufficient to love you and I’m not really part Of this pictionary future. No one taught me how to make anything long term. Really, I could make this…

  • Before and after

    I have been searching for an explanation that helps me understand why you are here in my world. Because yesterday you were not and I could sleep through the night. I was able to read books of poetry and the liner notes of my old CDs without seeing you in every page. I can’t see…

  • Sweet maple

    When I touch you It is like my hand is joined To your body Like you and I have been made From the same soft And sweet smelling wood. When I touch you I imagine the rippling Of time, moving Us toward one another But, at the pace of a Shrinking star. Possibility And impossibility,…

  • Introductions

    You are luxurious In your laughter.

  • 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…

  • Lasting

    We took a little Time off the top To think about The redundancy Of our lives. How we met And loved The words That came Across Our lips More than We loved One another. I sheltered you Like a seed Cupped in my hands And I was A penny to be saved. We agreed, No…

  • 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.