Love Her Blind and Other Poems

Within these pages, ember-ghosts entwine,Where long, black rivers shine like tarred-out wine.Sunflowers hold bold gold; with winter's bite mighty tight,Icicle tears fall and break with each breath of brittle night.Here love is an iron, barbed, and rusted key;It cuts, then brightens, binding readers to see.A hammer-fist on glass makes spidered pain anew,And memory rains, then dries to ash-streaked stain.Rocking chairs, once meant to soothe, turn to dread now;They swing like storms above a child's cold head.Birdsong with beeps; crows counsel, sharp and rough;They ask what you will bear, and how much is too much.Roots drink red blood; the silent forests pray;A Grandfather-God lifts stars like lambent clay.A Tall Man waits there; streetlights blink and fade;The searing needle steers your will through shade.These poems are matchflames in the midnight room;They stitch your heart with light, to loosen doom.Pray, Muse, let broken visions rise,To summon forth rising sea tides deep within inspired eyes.📖 Available on Amazon: https://amzn.to/4vDfPhP