Boarding Pass

 Boarding Pass

What is this feeling? 
As if loving you 
set my heart into a turbine pit 
All gasping, burning, fiery, 
You are the runway set on a seaborne cliff - 
forgive me if I close my eyes 
from time to time 
to feel the thrust 
of my soul in my chest 
And my fingers clutching firmament 
that's never really there

Awakening

 Awakening

I woke as if someone had punched me

rubbed my hand against my raw cheek

swollen and numb as a dream

that I had chewed my insides out

with each sleepy grin

and spat out the meaty parts

of me that felt wrong, out of

suit, cardboard and thick

with saliva and regret

leaving craters,

they think it might be wisdom

teeth finally pushing apart,

as if to say, “enough, is

enough,” you

are twenty-three

it is time we

came out.