Sofia

Stuck painfully to my side a film projects

My skeletons dancing in Sofias bridal fantasy. Stairwells bring down,

A polite remark awaits with trembles tempting the satin,

Expecting the least from what is to become.

Whos guests- molding together a somber prediction-

Place moist palms onto a book that defines

A muttering God? This verbal disturbance shreds blank, longing notes

Confessing murder and marvel. Red velvet contradicts the canvass

To lay out an empty cemetery. Graves honoring

My selected victims of force that tie glee down.

Complaints from blisters winning authority only caress

A patient registered with alert in police mind states.

Domestic disturbance fails to awaken the obvious.

Red hair pulled from the scalp of a slouched, bitter

Angel. Starving on a beach in the middle of an

Imagery forest.

Feeling The Fickle Fake Funny Femme Fatal

Skin lathered oil lubricates softly, in a

Rain shattered mind collapsing, under

Rocks activating dim China light.

Individual

Separation provides meaning, and sits awake with

Caffeine ghosts present to trailer park memories. To

Cut the luck struggling to become is to be pure in humid

Battles against being alone, undone. No light

Traces soft insight. Talking lips murmuring madness away.

Bed rides engaging bad days, forcing to stay. Honesty

Gleams in the spot light exposing all accompanied.

In the few lives that I cry, genuine eyes blink in a

Tension alive with guilt and indecision. There, is a

Throat that swallows truth massaging my heart through

Exhaust and partial romance. I cannot fix inability,

Only smile upon you all that have not failed. Purpose

For the shape is where holes are dug into a stale,

Native shore, coating the fins of youth onto

My canvass of psychosis. Makeup runs erotic,

To the bottom of faith in church, to the bottom

Of my heart, escape attempted.

Brian Hardie has been published at The Pebble Lake Review(Houston, TX), Conceit Magazine(San Fransisco, CA), Hudson View(NYC/South Africa), Decanto(UK), Ditchpoetry.com(Canada), SALiT Magazine(International), DaveJarecki.com, WordSlaw.com, CynicMagazineOnline.com, Down In The Dirt Magazine, Expressions Online Literary Journal, Theinquisitionpoetry.com(Nevada), Lone Stars Magazine, Pure Francis, and Angel Exhaust(UK).