noise(less)

noise(less) slap of dominoes on a wooden table the upside of double sixes blocking the one escape from a haunting memory of someone screaming in the night someone torn from the silvery remnants of a cocoon life muddle of busy streets cacophonous clatter under mushroom police sirens feet and more feet stepping through doors and arches and over sidewalk betrothals immutable initials encircled by concrete hearts just before dawn squeak of bedsprings repetitious and unrelenting until after a groaning gasp blending with a guttural moan nothing and then nothing and then something cruel and acidic something that eats the moment silence Chaplinesque and idiotic a flutter of eyelids and fumbling fingers not blind but like blind sounds unheard except by the empty heart waiting for a whisper that never comes ©  Copyright  Kennedy James, 2013. All rights reserved.

i have loved you

i have loved you i have loved you for only a moment and i have loved you forever i have loved you in your dresses of silk ribbons that flew in the wind around my uneasiness and bound me to your flesh until inflamed by desire i surrendered my heart and matched you spark by spark flame by flame until like two candles  red and blue we melted into a single sealing shade of iridescent indigo i have loved you for only a moment and i have loved you forever i have loved you through the music of a perfect violin playing through the solitude of some lonely winter's tale and when you were most alone i was alone with you like steam dissolving ice on smoky windowpanes and forming crystalline constellations  of silvery white on the blackest of  imperfect mornings i have loved you for only a moment and i have loved you forever i have loved you in the hallways of ambiguity watched your eyes fly from certain to uncertain or heard your words stagger without warning and still i never doubted that every flickering question would be answered and that love would transform the darkness of mystery  at the end of a day  into the bright knowing light of a day without end i have loved you for only a moment and i have loved you forever Audio Verson Sorry, audio is not available.

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Songs of Ani — 12

Songs of Ani — 12 Ani pulls stars from the night sky and with a frozen stare says "Here, I will build my universe around you" and she smears a galaxy of flickering pinpoint promises across the primordial dust of desire floating in shadowy streams of light through the haze of my room and when her Ptolemaic cosmos is complete she comes to the bed and with eager fingers undresses my brittle body and ties me to the bedposts then with her measured art she tattoos my flat and paling skin with a map of Bedlam around where her mouth coaxes my arousal into a trembling tower which she inscribes with the name Babel "The chaotic centre where lesser women will come" she says "and plead for your love in tongues" Copyright © Kennedy James, 2013. All rights reserved.