Sound Bites: 8-6-2024

Verbal Foundlings

Free or blank

tomato

tomatto 

Without rhyme’s link

there’s no

bravado

The verse left orphaned

all kinship

spurned

As unconnected

words crash

— and burn

(The New Room: July, 2024)

Death Grip

The tighter

we hold on

The faster

— it slips away

(Dreamsleep: July, 2024)

Now Is Now

Freedom in the moment

the past is the past

Throwing off chains

— tomorrow recast

(Dreamsleep: August, 2024)

Reaching Back

Closer in the distance

than what endears my touch

I focus on your memory

— reclaimed in fated lust

(Dreamsleep: August, 2024)