To the Rescue

It was like carrying

An injured body through waist-high

Muddy waters

In the pouring rain,

Screaming rationale to the helicopters,

Except the person did not die, they just

Refused to live. 

~

RNH

Capsule

Growth, in all forms,
would be a matter of time
and place, just as the seeds
know
when to unfold
themselves.

~

RNH

Shorn Free

She took her axe to the tree

That had stood bearing

No fruit for far too long,

And she built herself a fine boat

And she sailed away. 

~

RNH

Sugar Hill

in this hill of sand, a diamond,
in this sugar pile running through my fingers, a thorn
worthwhile, and even the hourglass that
pummels me, it
melts, too,
under the laughter of licked tears.

~

RNH

watermark

pencil dropped and picked up

like the stutter in my heart's beat

like the stereo's pulse and bass

pleads, static

blacking out the windows until they
disappear,
their images lost in a thousand bridges
swerved off and their bottled notes acquiring 

this stain. 

~

RNH

edited roses

my scissors cut out shapes i do not

recognize, their slender 

teeth articulate, they know

what they want to say, while i

hypothesize, phrases curling

upon whispy edges, taffeta

crinkling, stabbed by letters.

all of this unfolds

as the silver cuts and cuts

and cuts. 

~

RNH

a once love

the specter of love / bleeds through my irises
divides the mind / with her lightning / red bolts
that fiction / on replay / flashes the same scene
the big screen / cerebral / where we
about to kiss / lean
and disintegrate.
we burst, into an expanding circle of flame, our gazes
trapped on opposite sides, unraveling.

~

RNH