poem | the echoes

Detour

I haven’t floated in the seaThe sun hasn’t burned my fleshMy tongue has forgotten the sweetness of fruitsIn what feels like a decadeYet the noise,The noise has always made me… more

Detour

Love

We must unlearn the mountains, the ranges to see the textures and curvesThe color of the Earth and the birth of the skiesAnd come to know that it is an… more

Love

Grounding

I want to pay attention.But at times, the attention runsLike a son away from his motherLike threads of a 13-year old knit sweaterMy mother used to wear.Now, it is hugging my bodyOn… more

Grounding

The waves and the watermelon and the turtlesOffer themselves up to usPure, salty, and wildTo meet our loneliness and our angerOur fragmented selves. The tide retreats for a while,To set… more

Rebirth

are you afraid to close your eyeswhen demons start emergingout of the closet, out of the trunks of treesout of your repressed anger,out of the silenceyou can’t standout of their… more

Rebirth

Forgive

In a world dipped in, brushed on by mistakes In which form does forgiveness appear? Is it like poetry? How does it feel? As basic as the sun? Or the… more

Forgive

Fall in love for five more minutes… Do you smell smoke? Your flesh burns a little, Sit with the pain, Stay, fall in love A few minutes more Please Endure… more

Gratitude

Manifest

scribble poems on the streets of Paris, smudge the bitterest tears on the page as they flow down your face. eyelids closed, slowly lift up your head under the sweeping… more

Manifest

The leaves talked to me yesterday, of what life could smell, what we could breathe on the other side of the world. As they wriggled, teased, danced with the wind,… more

In Time, Freedom

Distance

What if You have 571 miles to cast loose Yet there is no one to get lost with Only silence Between the front seats. more

Let Go

It’s hard to own something you’re not sure you own – dreams socks lovers landscapes emotions skies drawings petals rhymes heartbeats – In a moment, they perish. In a lifetime,… more

Oceans

circled in, vacuumed, lostin this tanglenessclouds, cravings, chatter, vines let me know when you arrivei am everywhere in this fence, i stand andfrom my palms slip the odds and endsi… more

Oceans

A quiet hunger for the wildA wilder hope for lifetimesThey say it’s a shot in the darkI say it’s a shot in the blinding light more

Changes

I once had a dreamIt was all I ever wantedI thought it mightexplode any momentAnd then it didI exploded with itAnd then we were gone more

Chemistry

Capacities

Organic

Have you touched seen tasted it Glass in between Have you felt the energy of things as it was The night before They come to me, like moths attracted to… more

Organic

Sea foam that ragesbelow my feetNoRather white wavesthat weepQuietly, smoothly, under the undisturbingglare of the afternoon sun NightUntil I sought a spaceinsideUntil this woman whispered her shantiUntil his vulnerable voice… more

Rain

Savaged the glass window And gloried in its broken pieces And sharpness On the floor, the pile of broken pieces Took them all Like precious, delicate shells, cupped them inside… more

Ephemeral

it comes out of her mouth, it comes outof her fingersat the tips of her hairright therethey blush, they rushlike wordplayslike mazesin the oblivionwhere do they come fromunintentionalthat intend some… more

Ephemeral

Process

Sometimes when silenceEchoesWhen I have nothing else to sayMy thoughtsHave all the energy to fill the silenceOf you and meAnd us and this distanceOf airBack when we were flesh to… more

Magic

Anything else Everything else Nothing else It’s totally, organically becoming else So how do you see it? Most importantly, how do you feel about it? Expansive or contracting? Is there… more

Magic

All these remind me of love lettersYou have a face, a fleshUnderneath the texture is your magnificent soulThat is realYou are really, really, really hereBut not really hereSo when do… more

Answers

Through your smile and your eyes Something powerful Bananas perhaps? Something good A really good soul Even without words Through your smile and your eyes He becomes happy Through your… more

Christmas

In a cold, cold world I taste the summer from your breath There are larger things beyond ourselves. Let’s steal the moment under the tall, pine tree and give infinitely.… more

Christmas

Passing through

Europe

When I heard I thought it was full blast absurd A part of your whole was hurt Pain was mutually shared Spot-on beyond the curve Your other parts gave birth… more

Gravity

That weight belongs to the ground A pull beneath A drop from above Its tangible collapse Its invisible roar From the collapse is where the infinite grows We notice the… more

Crave

Now

There are no boundsThere is no beliefTodayThere is only my divine breathNow sipping, dressing, wanderingMovements so familiar like fluid flowingTodayIt is another cry, another tryTo flyFor there are no boundsFor… more

Now

Come out, come outInto the adventure that is todayPush your toes and sole insideThe rugged boots of your adolescencePedal up the heavenly wisdom of the presentThe shiny pavement invitesCome out,… more