This is Jason's first submission since last December. I was very happy to hear from him and when I read this passionate new poem, I decided to post it immediately. - poetheart 07/14/02
Because I've led a life of a thousand missing kisses
because I'm a prisoner of the long death row of last romances
because I struggle by needle-point
to sew back stitch by stitch the insides of my heart
I steal the eye of the crow at midnight... weep dark muffled tears
while wind and rain whips my lips bracing my words.
I steal the eye of the crow at midnight...
misery beams in her eyes
like two shining swords
balancing my pain.
Breathing person to crow, I shed plumage
I take my last chances with her hollow chrome...
I whisper into the small pit a mercy call
the stench feeds misery with a strange lust.
by Jason Visconti