Forest Chump

"If you go down to the woods in rhyme you're sure of a musing smile sometime!"

The day it dawns clear, let's go hunting deer In the forest you say to yourself Your horn you will hoot, your arrows you'll shoot And the walk will be good for your health So you get out of bed...

I'll keep the winter with me, each night you added me to your heartwhen I kept wanting to know more, for you to tell me what you saw when staring for hours out of the dark windows of your bedroom while still in my...

I wasn't what you thoughtI would be when unraveling, threads spilling and whippingviolently in the cold wind each one a contained frame in time. You may not be able to still them long enough to truly see into all of me, the stories you've...

There are moments engineered by things beyond us, there's no other shape I want to be near, no other form I want to know all of me. Earlier in the dark falling snow, it was almost like soaring through stars, it all makes a...

I would never want to keep you from the eyes of everyone else,but you're just out of my reach, a reminder carved into me about the distance between skins. Someone else always sees what I first saw in you, never the infinite layers beneath, never the...

Something in me doesn't want to let go after, these unnamed regions in me are like roots that need to coil around and stay inside you, our bodies sheltered in the aftershocks tremoring through our exhausted and satisfied forms. There is no fall after...

You've always known how to bend mewith a note and break me with a song, and in between, my love, I know where I belong. Standing in the road to brace for a storm, when I think I can't be your ghost anymore, you...

Everything else dims as you come to me, our skin flushed with wine and need, our fevers ready to meet tonightwhile the stars burn as we often do. Patiently illuminating space while waiting to swell and burst, to become shimmers and sparks charging every particle...

Each kiss is an invisible mark upon lips and skin,the living territory I've claimed as mine,tracts more intricate and mysterious than any I have ever explored.Sometimes you wonder why I grow so quiet,but do not mistake silence for indifference,the quiet...

I've always wanted to know how to reach you,to forget each divide within us that is a dark oceanpopulated with dangerous new species,depths we may not know how to chart alone.I don't want to stay on the surface anymore,where rippling...