Misery and Company

My private demon is winning

My wine hazy spirit.

The sunset cools

on a small snowfall.

 

The shining light,

it’s always washed in bleach.

Endless beach,

tears.

Sometimes we cry for our own sake,

cold,

and there are no boxes to contain

our needy mouths.

 

We all have been an empty harvest.

We have not been sown.

It’s easy,

to breathe tears into the body,

eyes to see.

In the fireplace,

every representative of the land.

 

Wintry Culture

At the sea level a polished ice.

Under it,

two polite humanoids that cannot pass,

Their painful courtesy increasing

against the cold crusted water.

 

I have the urge to cry.

I have for years.

 

The storm swirls deeply,

Blurring boundaries between

The dead and the sea.

 

The winter will sail

beyond borders and shore,

an elegant hole in the warm web of living.

 

For now,

nude humanoids,

Scratching at the well-kept surface

Of a national ice.