Category: Deep

walking solo,

he cursed and rationalize barb wired barricades

constructed from a protected past so sharp, 

as not to see …

 he was cut enough to bleed

      AVP

paper kites 

drenched in evening blues,

anchor their tails 

on distant shores 

 to pull down the sun.

      AVP

dr. time

they say you heal all wounds …

so when will you mend

 my fractured mind 

of his blue linen eyes

and scent on my shirt ? 

                                                         avp

drowning,

its hard to come up for air

when your wings

 are made of stone.

      AVP

clouds gather ‘round
packaged secrets in a prayer.
pulling at the seams
& searching for signs
of temptation or salvation,
they find a heart already sinned.

AVP

thinking i was

only defined by my mistakes,

i forgot to connect the dots

that draw the dawn 

and end the night.

                                                   AVP

they built flimsy walls 

with cardboard boxes

filled with half of what they felt,

in hopes of protecting 

all they really wanted.

      AVP

walking over chalk drawn sidewalks,

 he fumbled through my pockets of 

hopscotch decisions looking for answers.

 instead,  he found handfuls of

question marks on top of his periods.

                                                                         AVP

by catching feathers 

that fall from broken wings, 

we get to fly

      AVP

when he died

i felt

nothing 

                                                AVP