Skeleton Speakeasies

Lover, Lover

The nighttime sings our names

Ballads of the figurative Juliet 

Radios hiss hearts spilled the shadows hide naked ambition stilled

Neglected emotional hills wafts through valleys of past lives

Karmic backlogs review their closing percentages

Futures flood the floors hold the line between fate and tears

Shadow people alone in the twilight

Illuminated letters, walls woed to sleep

Dreams from the shoreline as phantom vessels waltz on the silver linings 

Postures of stable footing, top of the line, kings and queens of value

Thumbs circle the knuckles, bone kisses bone, the familiar taste of home

Haunted hems lines explored in tribal pursuits

Please keep me waiting

The specter of tender frames evaporates

Morning ghosts caress the memory in travel

Neckties versus deadlines

Power brokered, breath that betrays the dream

Folded napkins

Cocktail napkin epitaphs 

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