Wreck & Reference

A glass cage for an animal, it knows the price of this apparent freedom. Inflatable, the past careens down verdant hills. In caves where night has taken up and solitude does visit, even in the afternoons the sounds of its diurnal creep. I know I'll die, too im...

Breaking up in tiny rooms suckling on the teat of space. In lucid fields Ive come to pass in the bottle I do see his face. Mother, have we come to terms when our insides become unlaced. Knowing that itll come to this the absolute nothing black of...

Fear is overtaking me. This land mine mind, and your tripwire hairs. The taste of gunpowder on your lips. Why does my sight unfurl in these moments of desperation? Careening towards the precipice, the plummet I have faced a thousand times. I can only apologize...

where was it that you awoke and saw the treason of your words throwing your body down the stairs sisyphean and resolute where was it that you saw yourself vomit dribbling down your chin knowing true that you've become a stain, a putrid pool of o...

glossy light here mural arch of trees she was another holy vessel for blood but the gap grew slowly rift to canyon he is a good man he eats with his knife absurdities and echoes further this game into temporary solutions that distract m...

From my masted opaque deep the days go by. Seeing my beds empty half, I turned to fall from dark to darkness. Whats it like to not have hands? All the ships have been abandoned. 

Full head of nothing Fail to see the difference Fail to feel the mercy Off to join the flagstaff Always crush me Picture my amazement When it doesn't always pain me And I will reproduce faster Commitment trailblazer Your trail is quite a pu...

The simple slave, in sweat-soaked sheets, aims his shackles, and cuts off his hands. The simple slave, in smoggy pantheon, aims for release, and cuts off his head. Apollo falls asleep behind the wheel. A scar reopens to a wound and pleads in a whimper for infe...

Gagging before green walls. Adopting postures of defeat. Hanging pendants from every weakness. Gnawing at my own restraints. I feel my bones splinter inside me. My nerves knotted, gnarled, and bare. Dry mouth spitting at every mirror. I will call this by its n...

I am the son of a treacherous hand. Told golden and chosen and lifted to light. Reflected in brass on the casket of hope. In spite I decline, I decline, I decline. Now gold turns to lead turns to acid to piss. Naked and awake in the kitchen I see myself, tw...

I fashioned myself a hatred for beauty. Envy steeped in alcohol for eight months. I found myself spitting on murals of possibilities and waking up with bloody fists. I sewed into my arm a reminder of the dread of waking. Not that it was necessary, but like a f...

I was a troubled lover then and unable to put up the dam for a different river and let the valley to grow. Still cuts me up, satin and waning. But you did bring me closer to something that I didn’t know and you did fill me with the urge to go on. But now th...

these cracking bones corrupted their way towards your silhouette sacrosanct and smooth the flicker of halogen like candles in churches i never worshipped a thing of beauty perhaps for those with eyes still in sockets i can't believe in anyth...

Chain smoke rings like a vapor snake kiss She says she don't know why The closer you are, the quicker it hits you The closer you are, the quicker it hits you Now you can see the boys dreaming The closer you are, the quicker it hits you You play t...

These freshly picked flowers that you pressed with your body. Beneath the hardwood. Beneath the shadows. Yellowed, brittle, pure. They fill my mouth with the taste of stale earth. My hunger, unmoved. I promised you nothing, but a firm hand, a sorry smile, a ge...

What if all these books never gave me anything like what she gave me? And what if the monuments we build or the corpses we can still dig up from the soil don't teach us anything? And what if creating more of us doesn't give us anything more? The path up the hi...

I know that when Ill lose myself to ether from the riches of imaginary land, heaven wont be in a place where my blood will pour, filling into stoic rays of will. You and I are vibrations on a newsreel, inexorable seas, modernity. I am not free, nor...

he has the face of a dreamer the poster child for the omega holds a violin on the stoop of a great peaking swollen edifice of silt what we know hides inside a fist and is betrayed prescience into a forest dig up a soldier hold out his bones...

I am not sure of a world outside this wine. But if there is one then I am a bastard of it. Feel the embers warm my bones, in the wasteland that is west. The mountain man is a scary beacon, decide what kind of martyrs we should grow. From the cedar t...

A palpable fear exists love is a ghastly figure. Between illuminated warmer bodies still untapped I am. I file them into ranks. I file myself alongside them, turning another corner of an empty maze. So what if as a child that I believed in freedom? Hands throu...

Back into resentment you went, through the glass house door. The mind fills up and absorbs, does away with waste in the wake of drift. We're too damned sick yellow to ever leave then the drawbacks appear, no other worlds, no sky. Couldn’t bring in my drawin...

I've waited too long to have you Hide in the back of me I've cheated so long, I wonder How you kept track of me You can never be strong You can only be free I never asked you to be fair But you owe it to me I entered the game of pricks With...

gravity adds another day from fettered wings a solemn night rampant want and counting rosaries in the grass to be a decadent slave pursue my discontent through these fields onto eternity look at my flame to death fuck in an involuntary farce...

Awakening, the fissures of my face separate. Forcing focus in below the weight of dreams and in their space. A frozen, fallow world awaits, beyond my hollow bed. To wrap my body up in violent shakes and cast my skull in dread. I mean to bathe to clea...

his punishment is mine too against my will i took it on where do currents go when riverbeds are shores memories are buried in an immoral mountain this is but one inverted soul scratching at the sun or where it used to be witness normal from a movi...

Is this the sensible world or just a sick joke my childhood upon me? Derivative and febrile, the water always ran too hot. I singed my hair and taste buds looking for a freedom from a jail within a jail within a jail within a jail within a jail. And now you sa...

I'm digging a hole through the veranda, through the pale dirt, through the ant farm, through my sternum. I will lie supine, a trough of disappointment. I was malingering. You took your gloves off, and reached inside and pulled out whatever you could. Your f...

The white buildings in the desert are cast out of silence, deliver a massive machine to the earth. The ground produces waves obscuring the possibility of unalienating truth. The sink holes reveal large submerged caverns. In them animals turn what they are. My...

I bare my brutish aim: to disguise my animalism in symbols and obscurity. A con game I’m winning, don't forget. But what about you? And you? I bare my base beliefs: negate whatever I have heard or said, it doesn't matter what. But what about you? And you?...

I open my mouth to spit on the walls. The words bounce around my head, vault where ego and insecurity make backroom deals to drown me. My memories of young life were left to me in such a way, stuck rather than cultured, and orphan. I whisper them to go a...

it is daytime now, in the summer even though i couldn't tell no shutters, no sleep, it follows you under you were so stupid last time don't you see how beautiful this moment could be look at the sky, look at the color i've got my green dress on...

Where was it that bone met blade Delicately lowering your foot into steel trap Listening for the creak of the spring Where was it that collar met throat A bundle of tubes Squeezed together No fluid nor air nor humor there passing Where was it...

I was gagging on the fat, sick dripping down my face, when you told me to relax, when you said just take a break When you rolled me on my side and I began to shake. When you asked me for a reason, and I said I could relate. And I don’t know what yo...

from this forge a fraud elemental rent from flames unripe and unsteady it adorned with muted palette a spectrum restrained and blurred swaddled in embroidery so dear diverting critical gaze wrought now but take to it with hammer...

absurdist pugilists punching through panes of glass bullheaded drunks pissing on statues spitting on tapestries in trespass and waving the knife in the face of all certainty and when immunity collapses the bastard blade will be frozen in icy w...

Destinations withering, desperate in blue light. Stranger, fill this hole in me under beaten sky. Not unlike you, I am afraid. Destinations withering, face separates from eyes. I would like to serve myself but if you're pretty tie me up. Strangers wear the cac...

Send in striped white jets In through stained glass ceilings Color them white or red Don't let anyone find out Or expose your feelings Cover your head instead And penetrate this dark heart And as the wound is healing Crawl to the other side...

I prescribed myself a prone prolonged surrender. And proscribed my born role of friend and pretender. Abdicated agencys affirming splendor. And took to my bed a mind with which to render, a world in which I still felt tender. Confer upon this frail f...

If by miracle my children have a thousand names and they are all the same, they'll sink into the hourglass with me as have my grandmothers. At the end they'll say enthusiasm is hard to find, so is this the end? I grasp for it, approaching the sink. Sending emp...

The clearing was the only place that I could finally come to the last thought, a correction could be made. That I should get rid of what plagues me, my wayward soul. If no substance exists but I nonetheless feel it as though an eroding stone in the kettle p...

we speak on the shore, tongues lapping each impulse a leaf on the water careening then swallowed you were evergreen then and deciduous i, perfidious i was born from shuttered seasons i shuddered as your fingers mapped these veins innumerable no...

Do you remember being my life guard in silence, burning screens, as all the homes were smoking. No one looked. I thought you’d have learned to swim. I thought after all these years that I would be different. Do you know the world I don’t and pillage memo...

there's no longer fear to be undone on a pedestal that is pure white still three o clock aporia and pills only swollen hearts feel a low violence in a mother left behind, getting cold monolithic firing squad in black meanwhile winters surely comi...