Burnt Midnight (in collaboration with Sky Lanterns; Kendo poet)

Beneath my eyelids
I am ugly
even in nakedness.
Calloused and vulnerable,
a raw replicate
of crooked lines
and potholes, filling
with the breath
of crusty love.

A Beautiful Choice

Ugly is in the eye of the beholder
The same place beauty is found
Why focus on the ugly
When beauty is all around?

–Russ Towne