There is a longing to drown.
To be soaked and submerged
To lose breath and gasp
In a kiss so grand
And a love so much greater
Than warm summer storms
Thick with light captured in flight
from planets, moons and stars
As it falls down upon my face.
In this love
that will overflow teacups
And shatter through walls
Power bright cities
and roar in such […]
And it’s ok
I tell myself this
when it’s dark and I can see myself
And it’s just a moon
Half empty for wishing
it was somewhere else
maybe closer to you.
And when it’s just the wind racing through the trees
I hear instead of your breathing next to me
I tell myself, just a little longer
and I’ll be my whole self again
I […]
I feel alive
Scintillating with good wine and talk of sex
A brand new dress and plumeria on my skin
Like all things new and and pulsing
Are within my fingertips
In my breath
and under my skin
This is the beginning, I know.
Of a long lost and unmarked road
My laces are new and tight.
Fresh sneakers, shiny, white.
And that unconscious bite on […]
Oh perfect morning
When the sun pays gentle homage
to the slope and sweetness
of eyelids soft and tight
still captured in liquid dream
I’ll watch you breathe
In the subtle clover honey of my sighs
I’ll float in oceans of crumpled sheets
And sink into the curve
made for me by your body
And there I rest and find home
In the heartbeat beneath my […]
I didn’t know what I was looking for
I wasn’t surprised being lost again.
Looking up at a near starless night
Seeking true north and maybe something else
That must have been it then,
that must have been why
I tripped, tumbled, fell on knees
determined to make me pray
With gravel ground into my skin
And palms forced from being fists to fight […]
Sifting through old memories
is like embracing a dirty bomb
as you cling tight and are torn
by velocity and violence
made from scraps in the basement
the damp spaces of your skull
where mushrooms grow
and other things that feed on the dead
I think to myself how it’s come to be
this time and space
this other ness
this beyond strangers
chill between us
I delight […]
Delight.
A swoony flutter in the belly.
A taste of someone new on my lips.
An openness to new delights.
Pardon me as I skip off onto something … very… very… cool.
This was scratched
along the border of wrinkled envelopes
Torn open and discarded,
addressed to other people.
At one point this was important
This shell, pristine and white
That carried sentiments over distance and time
like underground mixtapes of sulky crooners
passed from hand to hand
Clumsy words and sentiments
tripping and leaving a trail of hopes
inside the seal and lip of paper.
And now, it’s […]
It was overdue, she decided.
So without word to anyone, she packed up an apple, two bags of potato chips, and a bottle of water and tossed it into her cargo bag. Her heart quickened. She closed her eyes to breathe and focus for a moment. To delay was not an option, as she’d […]
Years ago
I scratched out some words
Tumbling clumsy like I do
After too much champaign
which is any champaign
such a kick from champaign
In,The.Ass.
which after so much champaign
used to be significantly smaller
after a boy that I definitely didn’t know well.
And he wrote me cards that lured me
like potatochips to my pms.
To no one’s surprise,
I was drawn in by need […]
If I could
I would.
I would reach my hand out
Through the multiplexed jello of memory
tangled with thorns and lost love notes
To pull you through by the collar to my kiss.
I would pluck away the nightmares,
brush away the lost hours
Pick clean your unwilling heart
From all sense of shame.
Lay your head across my lap
And softly pour warm clouds […]
Single sparrow
sewing flights between clouds
like half tied dreams and memories
patching up weather worn and well loved
summer days from fog and chill
splendid silken soarings and song
like confessions
unanchored from one’s spine
so very unlike the burden of guilt
that is also sometimes truth.
How light the fast beating heart of that bird
How frail, furious, and free.
Rooted to this blacktop,
there is […]
AKA Urban Emo
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Twisting like a curtain of sky
Caught between steel and concrete
on this ordinary corner.
Old Riley crosses the street,
In grumbling silence
As the wind whips dust like a flurry of epithets
There’s a patch of grass beneath my shoes
Needing water, So in empathy, I spit on it.
It was just something to do.
And an itch left hungry
On the […]
Twisting like a curtain of blue
Caught in a steel and concrete valley
As the wind whips wild and wicked
Scattering dust like epithets
from Old Riley as he crosses the street
I cannot reach that spot
That small sweet spot
On the exact opposite side of my heart
That you would scratch for me
Though I crack and I claw
It’s just out of […]
(Warning: Goth mode poem ahead. Warning! Warning!)
Dearest Shame and Melancholy
Old friends who visit too long
Whose comfort I find in breast-beating
And whispers lacking song
Your company is tiresome
I’m too polite to ask you to leave
Your confessions ever mournful
When I have too much to bereave
The burden of your company
An obligation or an indulgent pang
As you gently drape […]
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