Thief with fruit scented perfume — Omar Mass

poetry ☆

poetry ☆

The night unbuttons its throat for you,

a bruise blooming beneath cathedral ribs.

You enter without footsteps,

all apology and appetite,

a silhouette poured from older hungers.

Your fragrance arrives

not roses, not smoke

but the split-open promise of orchard flesh:

It clings to the dark

the way a secret clings to a pulse.

I know you by that sweetness.

It is how you confess.

You are a thief

not of silver, nor sleep,

but of the small, defenseless motions

The beautiful crime of my midnight vagabond.


Whether with a brush, camera, or prose, my goal is invite viewers of my art into a story of self-reflection and a deeper understanding of the world surrounding me.

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