Video ’94

"For Vanessa"

A quick brush of the hand as she grabs the video tapes and smiles dark eyes glittering against the store's florescent lights from the spark of quick contact. A phone number on the counter to call later tonight.I've talked to...

They'd leave his body behind soon. She snuck into his lone wagon to place a cold cloth upon his head. They whispered things they could never tell another soul. Soon enough, he took his final breath, a soft silent gasp. She...

"Who is she?" he asked, admiring the gunslinger's iron.The carving took him months. Its ivory grip was adorned with a woman's likeness engraved on both sides. Careful etchings captured her dark hair and eyes, beautiful face almost smiling, forever frozen...

We were so young back then....And a part of me will be all the way back at thatnight when a ring encircled your trembling finger,the dark winter lake where you said yes and rushed over me like those waters flowing beneath...

Bare creamy thighs opening in the moonlight, the longest parting of my life. Nails rake along legs when I draw closer to this glistening nexus, flesh quivering the way a wave does right before gravity causes it to crest.Tongue gliding...

After it's over and there's nothingbut the crushing winter quiet that I can almost hold as a touchstone,there are no silver points of stars,nothing but the falling snow as I remember what I should have said.Words that may never bring you home,I...

Her fingertips graze my cheek, smooth memorizing stubble, and she's smiling in a way that perfectly bows her pink lip's curves as if she's about to speak.But the skyline was starting to explode around us in throbbing rainbows reflecting in...

It shouldn't have to hurt so much.You said her name and I knew that something had already changed,the slightest curvature in lips can move an entire world whileenraptured by words that glow inside me,you always knew how to go much deeper,to do...

You were a blur of fair skin awash in neon light rushing towards me, pinning me against the wall. I could barely make out the electronic music playing from inside the club. It was just a faint transmission of synths...

We took you to the shore in secret,body carefully bundled upon fruitwood,a pyre blazed and lapped near the watersof the same ocean that claimed my love.Before that we covered you in oils, perfumes, salts, and more wine than you had ever consumedto...