Sungeiby

Swamp
How does one
offer silent shadows
against the freezing
rain
bearing in mind
that I am
alone.

House
I only hope
the bravery comes
soon and
willingly
only over
the rough dirt
built with care

Lines
Dream blue
Setting soil
dream endless
and mercy filled
in complete
sentences

Blonde
Built on
beautiful
doesn't always
work
it is
the consent mystery
that gets noticed

Red
Twinkle
down plastic steps
of melting dust
and rotting foam
and wipe all
away that bother
to speak

Ladder
Shatter
when called
the omens run
scattered in
the opposite direction

Dragonfly
Do
when you trail
sleepless over
the mountains high
ever remember
the cold clutch
of hands
all over
the pale skin
of your beating
heart?
Never fond
we walk
in circles
against the dead
rising fast
holding
the snow
in our pure
transparent fingers
pounding
the ground
for answers
when no one
arrives.

Spatulism

Axe
There is
a line
within the red
deep blue
almost purple
how it
washes away
what we once
thought
was pain.

Pity
The never
to be far
it creates
a panic
despair
ruffles in
the only soaring
source
of pleasure

Fix
We quiet few
Restless within
the nights of glory
hungry for
the reign
of more
shifting
shifting
down gold
spider webs
bend
at the break

Warm
i declare
this night free
put up
your feet
and set still
from the world
it is only
then
that there
can be
peace.

James
The pattern
stalking back
stalking forth
the graceful cut
clean
and to
the point
with steady hand
made careful

Buddha
I answer
when the rain
comes slowly
only opening
slightly
against the blooming
orange tree

Please
Fly down
past the pasture
over rocky hills
where the wait
digs deeper
everyday.

Morbid Introspection

Gravity

We ransom veins

haul them

into our

U-haul trucks

and

our moving vans

and for one 

brief moment

we wonder why

the Earth

is round.

Nightshift

She whirls around

viper head

caustic mouth

nothing sweet

or good

in her hatred

of me

Weak

How vacant

do we persist

in the intentions

of others?

Dream

There never passes

only this

brilliant space

dictated

by individual players

why wait

for the day 

to arrive

when night

can be 

so splendid

Kept

The fresh

cut cleavage

waiting for 

misery

engulfed

in the small

structured

flames

of holy men

with strong

mannerisms

Boogeyman

This of all

We run amok

the tingling

in our fingers

of our hands

and we pray

that before bedtime

he does not come

again.

Disease

Stretch by

this awful truth

it leaves

nothing unturned

for the telling

of the eyes

this fruit

we miss

sticky and rotting.  

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William James is a serial killer. But, he is not your basic killer. He is the equivalent of a vampire for the next century, an individual that suffers from Renfield’s Syndrome or the incurable need for human blood. After he murders his fanatically religious mother, who has suppressed him his entire life and who killed his pregnant girlfriend, William begins an incestuous relationship with his half sister that will turn him into an anti-hero by presenting him with the opportunity to redeem himself. After leaving his hometown of Stonecliff, he will continue searching for a balance between the illness and the newly evolved anti-hero that he has become. For William is a Chinmera with two sets of DNA and his male twin living inside of him who craves blood as well. “Yours, Truly” is the story of the James family. A family set upon with black magic and the supernatural. Throughout his search, William meets a woman that accepts him and helps him to both adapt to and understand himself. William is also a writer, and throughout the graphic novel he begins to write his own novel about his life-a book inside a collection of books. “Yours, Truly” incorporates legend, myth, psychic abilities,telekinesis,witches, demons, angels, the devil, genetic mutation, blood fetish, punk, Goth, music, Literature, Buddhism and the question of the existence of God to tell the story of the James family and of one man’s search for resolution within the aspect of himself and his family.

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