Homosexuality
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Stop With the Boxes
please, please, please – don’t try to put me in a box.
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conduction
The sun is in the sky, it’s true, but warmth for life – it comes from you.
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side-effects
I forgot this part
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I dream
nightmares gone ~ I dream
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Sonnet VII – Still Walking
Today I wear the shoes I chose myself; Turns out that flight is only for a time.
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Feeling the Feels
Feelings are foreign to me; at least feelings over which I don’t have some sort of control.
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the poet’s irony
I try to write of love ~ but words ne’er flow
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Needful Things
we tell our kids – needs come first ~ but want calls oh so loudly
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fire and ice
spark to flame / kindled calefacation / solid ice to slogging slush.
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armored
That suit gets heavy, you know.
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Sleeper, Awake.
I am currently calling us “Awake Ben” and “Sleeping Ben”, which (because I’m so clever, you know) works on a number of levels, both literally and figuratively.
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defying atrophy
look back at writings / thoughts of yore / and wonder where my / mind went.
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should be sleeping
though I really should be sleeping ~ leaking mind just keeps on seeping
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The Rainbow Sonnets – IV, V, & VI
Then Clarity arrived at once, so Fast / Paint with the Rainbow, Life will come at last.
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Sonnet III – What Was and Ne’er Will Be
the door before me bids me walk on through, but pieces – grief and anger – won’t allow.
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catching up
This is how It Is.
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Tattoo
a change on the inside / made outside / more tellable
