If I could shrink an ailing body piece
then from my chest dilute the torrid pain...

Slip away, 'tis okay
After all the years you've seen...

A brisk haze lingers on the Somme before daybreak
Silhouettes parade in ritual fashion...

Intricate ruby currents emanate from your pupils
diluted from a pool of spring rosy essences...

At times I think; those whom overcome with sadness
Overbeared by an unshakable heaviness in their...

There's a spot on the wall
Small and dark, just one...

I fear not death, but death without rebirth;
For how I'll doubly miss the southern spring...

I behest a star that caught my eye;
be true from afar, shine - shine brighter in the...

It is lonely over here
in a corner dim, with the bar a-brim...

If the azure glow of the ocean
is summers' own liquid crest...

I write of grievance to the Reaper's will;
Who'll take me nether, just tho' it will be...

From one inked outpour
to unvarnished whiteness...