Ribcage

You said I’d never have
That rock hard sex-pack
Never be in pages
Showing off faces
Because my bottom ribs
Jut out and give
Shadows to my abs
So bury that hatchet
But my bottom ribs
Jut out like this
Because I’ve a heart soft
But never is lost
I need extra protection
So before I remove
Any ribs for you
I will love my bones
The way that they show
And give my heart home
And join while I go
Hunt for more poems
And leave you alone
To admire your own
Abdomen.

Like Summers

Lovers like sponges soaking up summers
To dance to the ground
Come fall
Deep into leaves
In that great in-between
Somehow warm breeze
Yet somehow these leaves
These Indian summer sleeves
Growing down your arms
And budding as gloves
While two viscious scarves
Hungry for hearts
Tie us together
And cover us in leaves
While we seep
All the summers we found to take
Lying and waiting
There by the rake
Spend these nights with me
Before they are evenings
Tend to my needs
Jump from your tree
Stay close to me
Promising
We’ll land close to each other

Pulse

I am still tasting the salt
From my deep swallows
Lying breathless
From depths thrust
Into my lungs
When the storm began
I found the one man
Floating on paddles
And approaching in pulses
Little toy boats
Sinking in still underwater
My mother and father
Lost at sea
My family
The bubbles lifting my face
In between breaks
Gasping to see
The savior to be
Reaching for me
Leaning
But when the weight set in
And he gave me a tug
The wind and rain bullied us
We tumbled
Watching oars float away
Fighting to save
The same
Selfish mistakes
Of every man for himself
I sank to the shells
The debris and me
Alone in the sea
And as I turned to the moon
My hair floats in tune
With the subtle ocean pulse
My eyes thick with the salts
I saw my fault
Saw what I saw
The last time I sank
His feet kicked to the shore
The waves held their course
And my savior no more
But with coral
His hands with the reef
My hands with me
Confused and still
Wheeze and fill
With my surrounds
My all arounds
Gathered the deepest breath from me
I could get from the deep
And feel deep asleep
I wake
With the waves
The sun in my face
And sand on my legs
The man who saved
His own life at sea
Not near me
But footprints
Like kicks
To the chest
Left to suggest
He was never around
To dry my face
And stay
Until wake
So the clouds roll away
I rise to my legs
And endure my next swim
Straight out to him
In whatever hellish storm
He has come to call normal
Never stopping for air
But only to stare
Blinded by the sun
Setting the horizon
On fire
And waving at me
Direct from point B
Promising
An opposite shore.

I wrote you a poem

Look to the past
The scripts and the cast
Let out a laugh
Break smile real fast
The days of way back
Aint got shit on your ass
And the future looks fantastic
Long lasting
Apple grabbing
Turn that core to see
A B C D E F G
Who will it be
Is for me
Will I marry?
Call that stem weak
Blame it on me
Just dying to see
Which letter it’d be
Just the same way
We met that day
I knew right away
When it broke on A
It was for my baby
Now want to view that heart
Figure out where to start
Take it apart
Just to put back together
Take a piece of forever
To figure you out
What you’re about
And then put back
Again in-tact
But this time it’d be
Rebuilt for me
Only to see
The breath-taking fact
That it is exactly
The same as when I started
This perfectly heart
This piece to see
Only difference would be
My fingerprints all over it
I woke with peace
But a bit of a wheeze
Because now I breathe
Not just for me
But what is now ‘we’
I fell asleep
Deep inside need
For more air to breathe
Because last night your tears
Seeped to be seen
Longed to be free
To finally breathe
The air out of me
Tell your tears they won
All their freedom
And the breath out of me
Tell your eyes it’s alright
To go ahead and cry
Because with you by my side
Catching drops from your eyes
There’s a path to sunrise
Lined
With breaths out of me
For your tears to receive

Warm Here

They say they only want me
If know they can’t have me
Don’t want I should lose you
But I’m begging you to grab me
Nab me
Grasp free
The good and the bad, see
I’m ecstatically
Elastic
Bouncing back
And forth knowing
This desire I go showing
May be slowing
Things down, but I’m going
I gotta keep it all hush
But you’re a burning hot oven
And I know I’m gonna touch it
that’s unless
This confess
Is too pressing
Because all I know is feeling
And I feel like I should know
The way you feel about me
When I let my words go
But I don’t
There are twenty billion facts
Ten million after that
In stacks
Of this and that
That are so exact
About who I am
And I know it’s far fetched
At best
But
I have a sip too much
And they fall out on the floor
The thinks I am thinking
The flowetry I pour
About knowing I want more
That I just can’t ignore
Knowing I adore
This simple speedy truth
The facts about you
And all that I will do
To try and keep you
See, I try my best to hide it
Don’t want to send you out
Scared and shouting
Sending texts about
That boy who sent you flowers
Within a few hours
Of the meeting he was calling
The beginning of his falling
The start of this see-sawing
Grand prize drawing
Phenomenon
But my earth is shaking
And my waves are waking
And my air is baking
In this heat you’re making
So though it’s been a week
You don’t know me
We aren’t yet we
And this is silly
Allow me the chance
To go all in
Push my chips in
Breathe deep, hope big
Toss dice and give spin
To the idea of beginnings
And the knowledge that I’m yours
To the hope of what our course
Has in store
To the million little pours
Holding tight to make the place
Where that smile radiates
And those eyes
Entice
Delight
And cause a stream to feel free
To flow forth from me
About every
Part of this man
You can already have
You do already have
Me at my best
A little distressed
By how quickly my chest
Surrendered its vessel
My ribs pulled apart
Room for two hearts
And it’s warm here whenever you’re ready.