Respiramos

Switzerland

We lived

In the shadows in the 

in between

 Bright eyed

17, and your hands are like treasure

Hunters roaming for Emeralds

Which you found by the time I was

18 and in love

Warm skin

Wet lips a Hummingbird’s 

Heart beat

I was your New York Style Strip Steak Medium

Rare

Your morphine drip, drip

Drip.

Numb 20 with Switzerland

Jaded 22 at the Berlin

Wall and you’re in love with

Someone Else

Surya’s Kiss

As we sleep

Cosmic fires fizzle to embers and 

Sun kisses Nocturnal Affairs 

Goodbye.

He lingers on

Rice paper eyelids

To receive 

Morning hymns, chants, worships

(Surya)

Never as alluring as

(Ratri)

But quite as responsible for 

The damp smelling green  

On the other side of the 

Cellar Door

Faces of Faith

Owl blinks twice at sunrise

In the presence of mountains,

Eternal faces of faith.

Nude Hypocrisies

Submerged in  

Glittering coal waters,

I am nude

Aware of your 

Hypocrisies 

Secret Garden

…Nipping at our heels

He sits on the gravestone

Watching us die.

Forgotten City

Disembodied gusts crescendo 

Upturned umbrellas reveal metal

Skeletons inside out

Porcelain armies round the stragglers 

Hopes sag on crumbling shoulders