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Ghost
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Waiting for the wound to heal
For flesh to scab, humours congeal
For scars to seal and then conform
And damaged nerve to burn, reborn

I swore the gash was half its size
And didn't dream to cauterize
For once occurred but to regress
And fall in step with idleness
And longing for a gentle touch
I've wanted it so much.
Wanted you so much.

These lustful whims call out a dare
A cry for chest and lungs to tear
And stricken, quickly rise for air
But will not find it anywhere.
Will not find you anywhere.

For blood and brain but host
This parasitic ghost.



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Miami
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These words alone hold no significance
Empty echoes of impermanence
A fading vessel's transient tone

But now:

So crisp, so clear, so do not hesitate
To grasp this cold lucidity
To savor hunger pangs anew

From what is shown, one can not speculate
If it arrives to simply devastate
To smother embers trying to light aflame

These fragments hint at being infinite
But without a stream, a compromise:
They die, withered upon the vine.

This devil's ruse, this sheer absurdity
To glimpse the all, in its futility
A trick of love, of loss, of future days unknown


A restless mind finds sport in fantasy
There it whispers boredom's lies to me
Another signifier heeds sensation's call

A face, a gaze, a form, an awkward gait
Too stark, too unaware to hesitate
Enthusiastically you beam to some new sound.

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from Birds in the Night, released April 22, 2016

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