A Moment
~~~

A beautiful woman outside a cafe
holds up her pretty new dress
sings all of Spring and Summer in her smiling
turns to her lover and says
"I love this. Isn't it perfect"

saying nothing, saying everything
he kisses the side of her neck.
Dean Myles Johnston "Sparehusband" Sad - 14 years, 11 months, 7 days ago

How To Start A Heart
~~~

Hold my hands down
trace the lace of the vein
from breast to wrist
and bite down
shock my heart with this
make me scream you into my lungs
give me everything that you can give;

I do not want to exist
I want to live.
Dean Myles Johnston "Sparehusband" Sad - 14 years, 11 months, 7 days ago

The Wine Jug
~~~

This would have held wine
tart-sharp as cum in your throat
lingering hot like a sated embrace

he would have shown her the Bacchanal scenes
they would laugh lustily, a lover's laugh,
and fucked 'til near morning
drunk on themselves.

How do things so beautiful get buried like this?

Help me with this, we can fix the cracks;
what time has taken, time can take back.
Dean Myles Johnston "Sparehusband" Sad - 14 years, 11 months, 7 days ago

River Bed Found Arrow Heads
~~~

some they made of crystal
some they made of stone
flint
eventually cold brittle base iron
strong enough to pierce a heart
even at a distance;

each commonplace is beautiful,
fragile, flawed, enduring.
Dean Myles Johnston "Sparehusband" Sad - 14 years, 11 months, 7 days ago

Gravity
~~~
I'm beginning to think
gravity doesn't work around me

I can be planted solid, firm, braced-backed against the warm earth
and still
when it decides to
it'll kick me where I stand
grubby little vindictive that it is

it's

like I'm falling off the end of the world.
Dean Myles Johnston "Sparehusband" Sad - 14 years, 11 months, 17 days ago