I can feel you in my breath
This is a series of illustrative bookart I created to pair with a recent piece of prose I wrote during my time in isolation. “Sinking beneath the surface of the nightThe sky and the ocean meld and split apart again,Indecisive lovers,Soft skin stretches across jutting bones,You pull your fingers through your hair and stretch upward, The long arching shape of your back,Casts shadows onto the bedr...
Grief
It started with my mouth,Whose corners went slack,Who wanted to call them liarWho wanted to argue back.It spread into my throat, Which started to close up.I thought that I’d be sick, I wanted to throw up.Next into my chest, Where I felt a squeeze Then into my lungs,I felt I couldn’t breath.Then into my stomach,It twisted and it turned.And Into to my eyes,Which started to burn.Then into the floo...
Take Me Down Into The Ocean
Take me down into the ocean. Bury me beneath the waves. Tide, take me where I might sleepAmong the pirate graves. I cannot bear the cries of mourning,All that moaning from the pain. I cannot bear such endless marchingThrough the rubble and the rain. Take me down into the ocean. Bury me beneath the waves. Tide, take me where I can sleepAmong the pirate graves.Seaweed brushes stubbled cheekSalty ...
Ocean Love
This shadow left between us hereIs a brittle thing my loveSo bring your lightThat we might break it downYou were only with us for a momentBut inside of that short time We saw eternity rise and swellThe ebb and flowOf an ocean of moments, stretching up and singing this soft, luxurious love song to timeWe are what you no longer contain;These memories that sit, and floatThrough time, and space, a...
Brume
It delivers itself so very softly,Evokes visions of Blakean spiritsDrifting towards intangible quarters-The transition of the selfTo a heavenly destination, by degrees.A chimera perhaps, a fancy,To some no more realThan fairies and elvesFrolicking in a supple garden,Natural evaporationSuggesting salvation-The salve of immortality-And reassurance of ghostsTo this small house of grief and need.L...