Xanadu
 

I find myself seduced by your melody. Echoing chords of piano; drums bashing, a rhythm unlike my own. Guitar strings, binding, tattooing...

Mother, I cannot say it much clearer. I am simply not real. I’m not sure why, but the histories of the Ancient Egyptian pharaohs...

after Mark Hillringhouse Trapped under the pressure it builds up and becomes harder to hide a feeling and proof you can’t ignore simply...

Before I leave my warm bed every morning you earmuff me. I am hugged by soft spheres of sunshine, and smothered by the heat of cordial...

You blew glass around my voice. Whatever sound managed to escape confinement was quickly regretted. The threat of shattering such a...

My heavy hat falls forward covering my eyes blinding me. Reality like a beard masking my features, stealing my individuality, leaving me...

One nugget too many, one fry too many, one big mac too many. A cheap meal at a heavy price. Each burger is a breath of greasy air,...

Here you are, sweatering me. Our hands neatly woven, fingers like yarn. Your warmth leaves me turtlenecked, concealed and shielded. Your...

Loosely– my green-browning sneakers slipping off, grasped by the umbering mud. The scarlet tubed slide reflecting on my cheeks, along...

I am the rose in the Sahara. Zebraing amongst the camels, pinking in the muddled brown. My petals peacock. They radiate like no other, in...