I came for the benefit of a sick woman this way, I was told and I paused I do not see a sick woman, I said there, look, I was told and I did but I saw no one save a radiant beauty eyes cut from gems sparkling she twisted to rhythm and good vibes …
I came for the benefit of a sick woman this way, I was told and I paused I do not see a sick woman, I said there, look, I was told and I did but I saw no one save a radiant beauty eyes cut from gems sparkling she twisted to rhythm and good vibes …
NEW YEAR AND THE GYM it’s how it goes raise a glass or a paper cup stuff food into your mouth worry about the calories when you join the gym you will turn your back on three months down the road but your resolutions won’t last nearly as long a grand idea now they glitter …
YOUR UNCANNY WAY OF KNOWING How sad, you told me, your eyes no longer dance the symphonies you used to orchestrate no longer echo in your head and yet, you told me, I can hear you scream in the silence, the chords you once struck for the living now a hymn for the dead. ~ …
SKIN It’s so hard to be in your skin the actions restrictive and peace doesn’t come easy what’s required is a bit of wayside shedding ignoring the pieces that shaped you as they flutter down. ~ Joseph A. Pinto © Copyright 2015 Joseph A. Pinto. All Rights Reserved.
THE SMALL ONE It was a quick visit. I didn’t even realize I needed one but obviously you knew better. That’s the thing about signs; they appear when not requested, revealed when your eyes are blind. Your phantom touch allowed me to feel my gravity weighing me down. Then you were gone, swallowed by an …
IN THE LAST DUSTY BAR thought i had lost you because it had been so long since i felt anywhere near right but you found me in the last dusty bar i had frequented; sauntered beside me shushed my questions splashed Scotch across my lips lit fire to my tongue and said: “write, motherfucker” my …
CINDER AND ASH I fucked it all up, didn’t I? and what I did can’t be undone, can it? I thought I held us firm but wound up squeezing too hard now I’m left staring at the dust and it’s much more painful than looking at your face (which remains angelic, by the way). I’m …
WHAT I SHOULD NOT KNOW first date don’t be so coy you know you’ve been blowing him out in the parking lot leaving your half eaten panini beside me leaving me sick in the mouth remembering how he stroked that fleshy thigh of yours it’s none of my business, of course but you’ve intruded all …
REPRIEVE is it okay if I lay beside you? because I can’t keep my eyes open much longer i’ve been pretty tired as of late and things have seemed to slow down around me. is it okay if I cry on your pillowcase? i’d wash it but it’ll dry soon enough that’s the way an …
PALACE In this darkness I have longed, yet only now do you approach beneath my canopy of sentinels. Wordless, though I have screamed centuries for you. Guileless, though now indeed you have been warned. I shall devour your pretenses; leave shorn your bravado. I am your beast, and under granite columns shall you be reborn. …
Joseph A. Pinto 