+ vampire +

so, kiss me.
please kiss me.

+ on my body, she is +

"so naked for immortal work
his shoulders marched against the dark"

e.e. cummings, my father moved through dooms of love

+ dreams +

she's just like you.
subtle and smoothe
in the
most
delicate of ways.

hammering hearts
and
veins like
steel
weathered over
after the last
of the hurricanes.

she transforms
her scales of distance
into into into
something
so
much
better.

her fingernails
are in the
spice island
hallways.
her moans
sleep sweet
among
the sheets
of something more
romantic
than the
tenderest of nights.

i want to change!
i want to live!
i want to love!
i want to die!
i want to suffer!

and bleed
with pictures of everything
i've ever
desired.

+ in secret +

these golden bricks,
and on them eyes.
this world's mysteries
sometimes
SOMETIMES
have no meaning.

he braids voices
in this shell
i have
smoothed to the side
of my
polluted head.

out of them and onto all of us and into you,
your soul -
such a filthy soul -
none of it.
it can't harm me anymore.

i have the serpent,
and i have his
ruby eyes
and they glint
for you
in those rays
that burn your
melancholy skin
into
dust.

i had a weight
to lift.
it fell last night.
as did your
worth.

you cannot harm me
you cannot harm me
you cannot harm me

we are not two/
we are one/

+ pretty much my favorite thing ever +

+ GHOULS +

we all recognize/
that i'm/
the problem/
here/

+ i just want what's real +

i want to build a home for myself.
i want it built by my own fingers.

they dug up
her frail
body
and found her
heart -
a note
paperclipped
to it.

"i just want what's real."

the young boy
who cleared the
last
of the soil
covering her skin
couldn't have been more than 21.

frames flashed before his eyes
and she was there and he was there and
all of it,
everything,
it was
all
there.
smiles and tears and death and
bones.
so many bones.

ivory keys
pitter pattered in the
hot wind
and he whispered to her,

"i'll build a home.
for you. for me."

he unclipped the
note,
knowing it would decay
within weeks, months.

she was
inside
of him, now -
that boy.

"hold onto me."

her whispers
rode his
senses
like the sweetest
and purest
of love sessions.

nothing was more real.

infinity
saved
her
and
put
her
soul
to rest.