I never write about paradise. About the region between familiar hands and my own, about the person who makes the perilous journ...
Showing posts with label Human. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Human. Show all posts
you & she (part 1)
Her soul is not a color, but a riotous scene from Hamlet, steeped with tragedy and the sound of bliss. She leaves the room like a gong, ec...
the opposite of lost
he won't say it, but I know he wants to. you can see it when we're kissing. or breathing. making the kind of eye contact only...
I see you
I have this month's exhaust accumulating behind my eyelids, a compilation of non-responses, excuses he planted like common roses, a...
when you slam the door.
you use the term best friends but the only best in this friendship is the anxiety that's getting the best of me. the rest of it...
"nothing gold can stay" (frost, 1923)
He keeps his fingers close to backspace keys, ready and willing to deplete and delete as necessary. He keeps his fingers close to bac...
oh.
he drops love words like atom bombs, but his journal's never heard your name. he wrote the book on poker faces, dealing out d...
the flames
you do not deserve these words. you are not worth my writings. you are not worth the knuckle cracks and ever-moving arthritis, th...
you will never read this.
You will never read this. You will never read this, or see this, or smell this, or run your underage hands along this. You wi...
cement
Mama told me to build myself out of cement. Mama told me to paint my walls whatever colors I chose, but to keep painting and keep ...
cigarettes & diamonds
I never wanted to be a sinner, but I never fit like a saint. My edges are hard like rock and cold like ice that never melts. I hear t...
unplugged soul
I showed him my blog if he promised never to speak of it again. He said, "I'll never say a word about it. Promise." ...
requiem to sad history.
You don't listen until your eyes do. You're analyzing paper words and wire lines but you aren't listening until it's...
six feet
We are six seconds from breaking. We are six too many holes in our ribcages, carved like six-foot-deep pieces of Earth, shuddering as...
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