i.
ten years old
first time
shedding blood

ii.
tears ingrained
within the rocks
of your eyes

iii.
hold you
in the cradle
of my chest

iv.
will you leave
when my lips
begin to quiver?

v.
the childhood name
she hated
she kept

vi.
these little answers
tiny
killers

vii.
sharp reality
chlorine
in the nose

viii.
moonchild
of midnight
conceived at dawn

ix.
baby brother
holds wild berry skittles line

x.
curious case
car guts
in the back seat

xi.
milk and chocolate patches
young deer
passing

xii.
strike mother strike
tonight
i won't be home

xiii.
wailing child
won't you stop
that shrieking?

xiv.
closed eyes
go down
the open road

xv.
drove silently today
pink sunset lighting my way

xvi.
away into the night
right under your skin

xvii.
gone...old love letters
sweet midnight serenades

xvii.
persistent ant
crawling over scratched words

xix.
dandelion puffs
teased by sensual winds
fly loose to air

xx.
unbelieve
lies repeated
as truth

xxi.
too much silence
cut
by quiet blade

xxii.
brown on yellow on pink
petal of a rose

xxiii.
roadkill taste
lingers
on parched tongue

xxiv.
fucking little buggers
gleefully bite legs

xxv.
pulsing heat
beneath swollen wrist

xxvi.
five a.m.
droplets sliding
cold and ready

xxvii.
seal your lips babe
don't ruin it

xxviii.
crescent moon shadows
pull down
heavy weight

xxix.
rays spray lashes,
eyelids,
darkness in pupils

xxx.
blinking seconds
flutter
on each face

xxxi.
messy bun--
tousled midnight hair
of a genius