Spontaneous Combustion

Excerpts from 'Shadows & Sparrows' published in this months issue of Spontaneous Combustion, a Toronto underground music and culture magazine.  Available all around Toronto, or download the issue right now!

homecoming

your homecoming will be my homecoming-

my selves go with you,only i remain;
a shadow phantom effigy or seeming
(an almost someone always who's noone)

a noone who,till their and your returning,
spends the forever of his loneliness
dreaming their eyes have opened to your morning

feeling their stars have risen through your skies:

so,in merciful love's own name,linger
no more than selfless i can quite endure
the absence of that moment when a stranger
takes in his arms my very life who's your

-when all fears doubts hopes beliefs disappear.
Everywhere and joy's perfect wholeness we're

-E.E Cummings,  Selected Poems,
passage 9 of Love and it's Mysteries
pg. 68