I keep my violence in reserve I do not file my teeth I read the handmaids tale at twelve I know what some would do to me I do not lie that I am safe I make no promises this time I lie behind this mask of man an animal version of kind 12/1/24
Category Archives: Poetry
Lightning Struck Rowan
Lightening silver Splayed into the Sky Still inside but gentle in the mountain wind Still standing Your red the only brightness Your layers home You burn in my mind In the land What have you seen? A source welling over Your invisible circle Unseen you are being Without design demand defence The centre of the world October 18
Time and Ursula
Maybe if I could speak like you Or find the leafy places in my blood like you I hear you and wonder at the earth I hear Ursula and wonder At the Sky But my words stillborn Crumble Before they reach the heart November 19
Circus
I dreamt of the circus Of hand painted wooden homes Better traveled than me A cat on a ledge Watching lazy after hours The bonfires will be gone by morning Leaving wheel ruts in the mud Laughter, music in the early hours As we care take the dreams Of those who sleep
Thieves
I love that you give me all that power It’s a fair exchange For a millennial buried A lifetime denied Let me frighten you again It’s good for you A reminder you are not in Absolute control alone
Complex sex
How can I be sex
Straddling
Rose lips and cropped
Hawkfaced
Hair like otter fur
Moving invisible between
Strut and slink
Hidden places soft beneath
Hard words
My nakedness is freedom
Without defining wrappings
Unshelved and moving real
Intertwining complex
Conflicted
Outside demands that i
Am untethered to
Beyond tongue ties breathing
Unseen before you
// Eoten