Raindrops like heartbeats in silence.

 the summer drowns in the rain

as if Noah’s flood once more.

the sun is pale and half asleep,

wrapped in cotton clouds.

the dusky day flows into darkness.

and prematurely rising night

reduces all to nothing,

to the length of my touch.

I open the door

I listen to the song

of the night and rain,

slow and heavy… cold

like the face of a comet.

a song without words:

a song that guide me far,

in the land of my dreams,

where only silence and darkness,

where the frozen breath of God

drifts toward the distant sun,

where I can hear my heartbeats

~c:NKO 7/29/13 

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The low sky of the afternoon

drops in the dark waters

solitude of the moment

enchants sounds and colors

into the asymmetry

of noneremembrance

the carnival of ever changing things

floods the blindness in every breath

the unknown snarls

flushing bare canines

from the gapping mouth of the full moon

we stare into each other’s eyes

so distant so close

different

and the same under

the tent of blooming stars

the silence of their gaze awakens me

the fresh and gentle wind of the past

touches my face

and the kiss on my lips

tastes like the sea

always fresh

never forgotten

c:NKO 6/17/13

My Feline.

you walk South, I walk North,

we cross each other’s paths,

turn our heads and stare.

we share the road:

you keep to your side I keep to mine.

we often exchange dirty looks

our predatory instincts glimmer in our pupils:

no smiles, no aggression

no winner in the game of deception,

our blood equally hot when it flows.

today

you lay on my parking spot:

stray, stripy, ruddy and friendly

I gently touch your silky, deceptively warm, fur.

I see a pool of dried blood beneath your cheek…

tomorrow

I will forget where you are

C:NKO 6/2/13 revised

Surrender.

power that is lesser

surrenders to the greater one

I say you think we mean

the world is in fragments

order hopelessly faces chaos

the cloak of darkness

wraps around the light

one belongs to one

no senses beyond the boundaries

c:NKO 2013

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you walk South, I walk North,

we cross each other’s paths,

turn our heads and stare.

we share the road:

you keep to your side I keep to mine.

often we exchange dirty looks

our predatory instincts glitter in our pupils.

but mostly it is territorial.

we maintain our poker faces:

no smiles, no aggression

no winner in the game of deception,

our blood knows,

it is equally hot when it flows.

today you lay on my parking spot:

stray, stripy, ruddy and attractive.

I gently touch your silky, deceptively warm, fur.

I see a pool of dried blood beneath your cheek…

I will look for you tomorrow,

I will forget for a moment where you are

C:NKO 6/2/13

when I am alive

 Words slowly crawl from my fingernails,

a few still dormant under my skin-

silent decaying shells on the shore.

some spill the sunset, the darkness,

rain over the water.

I long for something-

words fail to define.

words sparkle

remnants of a broken rainbow,

shed their eyes

over night’s landscape

swim in the liquid lead of a full moon:

I wish for a clear and simple, rolling tears

I wish for a day, which can’t be translated,

and breaks language, time and distance:

for spring tapping on my heart,

which sips into its deepest chambers:

for birds flying in pairs over the fields

the grass sprayed with flowers, growing wild.

I wish…for the yellow sky of an exploded sun

~c: NKO 2013

blind thoughts

I’m waiting for the rain

in the hour of a broken clock.

when you don’t look-

shadows prowl…

I’m blind!

fall…

my thoughts are heavier than air:

I am a sinner

waiting for the rain.

~c: NKO5/14/13