how is it possible that
your lips have this
shape and
let out gentle sounds
like sea foam on sand
this cratered rock
beneath
I want to enter
and live there
in a house made
of you
where it rains
when you wet your lips
and there’s a flood
when the water you
drink
runs down your chin
my whole garden
drowned
in happiness
becomes a beach
where pearl fish
jump from the ocean
under a spiraled sky
and I fall asleep
knowing I am right
where I want to be
on this cratered rock
right beneath your lips
in a house made of
you

Poems for Jeffrey, 2023

your star-like eyes
above my bed
float to rest over
mine
your body becomes
and exists
in between sheets
singular and
beautiful
like no other
it breathes as if
it lives and
it trembles as if
it’s dying
my arms around you
tighten
leaving marks on
your
long forgotten skin

and I breath out:

how can you be dead
when you give me all this
life?

Poems for Jeffrey, 2023

when everyone is sleeping
I am awake
breathing in silence
and waiting for you
to enter my bed
and my soul
waiting for you
to tell me
that you forgot about the world
and the moon
and I will tell you fantasies
with one hand over your eyes
one hand over you heart
it’s all good
it’s all right

Poems for Jeffrey, 2023