Where the Salt Air Meets My Heartbeat
The city had become a concrete garden where I was merely an
Where the Salt Wind Whispers Your Name
I left the city when my heart felt like a drought-stricken field,
The Sugar-Coated Rhythm of Us
My tongue dances against a cold, crystalline swirl of rainbow sugar, but
The Silicon Pulse of a Paper Heart
I sit within this wooden ribcage, the pavilion humming with an ancient
The Salt-Stained Memory of a Summer Long Gone
I have always felt like an artifact misplaced in time, a porcelain
The Goldfish of Kyoto: A Pulse in a Still City
I have spent three years chasing horizons that never seemed to end,
The Velvet Chord of a Salt-Washed Heart
I had spent three years chasing the neon pulse of Tokyo, my
The Glass Breath Between Us
I carry the ocean in a sphere of glass, cold against my
The Crimson Core of a Quiet Earth
I hold this apple not as mere fruit, but as if it
The Golden Pulse in a Silicon Tide
My heart is an ancient scroll unfurled by the wind of a
The Aperture Between Us
I’ve always preferred the world through a lens; it allows me
The Book That Wrote Me First
I am reading a novel that describes, in excruciating detail, exactly how
