What The Moon Can See

If You Give A Chicken Acid...

He’ll probably ask for a Xanax

a couple hours later

and tell you about a bad trip he had in ‘97

and you’ll nod along but you barely speak a bit of poultry.

If you give a chicken acid

he might want some nitrous

so you’ll have to find a balloon. 

He might forget where he is and won’t go home for breakfast.

If you give a chicken acid

he’ll go up to all your friends

and ask for their phone numbers and home address.

And he’ll most definitely stay out too long on the dance floor. 

If you give a chicken acid

he might tell you the truth about crossing the road

but then lie 

about where you can find the bathrooms. 

If you give a chicken acid

he’ll consider staying up with you to watch the sunrise

and maybe 

he’ll give you a line or two. 

If you give a chicken acid

you could wake up with a bad headache

and feathers in your hair

and not be able to drive home until the afternoon. 

Thoughts like koi flop from

a stranger's wishing well mouth,

toxic with copper.

you can pry starting sentences with 'and' or 'but' out of my cold, dead hands

the kindness of monsters was never a lie but always served some other goals

It ruins the flavour

her coffee was cold and so she placed it in the microwave to my bewilderment

otherwise, I'm of the belief that she's heaven sent.

Mouth full of silver,

a waning cresent smile shines

in the ink of night.

Light City

it’s hiding, just behind my eyes

i cannot call it a creature, for 

it has no face, no limbs, not 

even a heart. it is just a shadow. 

a lingering memory that disappears

whenever i focus too hard. 

~K.T.

first visible animal of dusk, whose antlers maim the stars, break off pieces of their longing shapes sends them scattering to earth, so full of omission no one is allowed to pass, there is no deep shelter there is only the ore-wear of hunger, time’s burrowing, the ways in which our desires beget us 

The color of the wings is just perfect. It's so well done!

Fly, my broken wings