Sitting on my porch
cicadas bring summer night...

Trace your graceful neck
creamy swell of your breast...

Gulp in humid breaths
swim through heavy muggy air...

Black bone trees shiver
emptiness blows on the wind...

Ragged scarecrow bones
clacking in the midnight wind...

The wonder of silence
i can love you without you...

Crimson blood scratchings
poetry exorcism...

Hard to dodge shrapnel
cut by falling jagged shards...

Tasting the last blackberry kiss
she fades like sunset music...

Quick dark night arrives
like the settling of a...

Days fade to gray
every breeze whispers your name...

Each day my shadow
thinner and less dark where it falls...