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So(u)lo Tears
Posted on January 15, 2017
My soul is behind the window panes of my eyes, banging with two fists, but not breaking through, as this glass only shatters in private, and only then does my soul slide its wrists on the jagged broken windows and bleed down my face. Leave me alone.
Remain
Posted on January 9, 2017
I want to sleep in your eyes, under those brown blankets like two giant autumn leaves they cover me, steaming sheets of hot tears keep my naked body warm. Close your eyes, I want to be captivated by your darkness. I want to feel your body move with your breath, roll in the blackness like […]
love note
Posted on January 8, 2017
Dear Death, Thank you for seeing me last night. I liked your earrings. The sun in one ear. The moon in the other. Stars like freckles on the skies of your cheeks. Your lips wet with juice from the forbidden fruit, you know how I feel about your kisses. Your hair is so lush, a […]
a girl named iris
Posted on January 6, 2017
The angel cried in rainbow, colored droplets flowing from her eyes, coloring my black and white world. I kept her crying. The angel cried in rainbow until she had no more tears, so she broke her halo and scattered the last of her colors into my black and white world and I still wonder why […]
Restless Rest
Posted on January 5, 2017
Placed my tired old bones in my flesh’s shelf my soul began polishing them and saw its wrinkled reflection in my femur. It threw its head back and started laughing at my brain’s skyscape above it, silly neuron stars.
i storm
Posted on January 3, 2017
i storm, my crackling heart: the eye of the storm. I will drench you with my sweetest dreams until you decay into a nightmare.
parting gift
Posted on January 3, 2017
My soul was a vase and you were the flower, you got taken by another. The water spoiled within me, drowning my dreams, fracturing my heart, red remnants settled at the vase’s floor, next to your fallen thorns.
the space between us
Posted on January 3, 2017
I took the starlight highway, black atmospheric asphalt, celestial highway markings. I found her nestled in her own galaxy. She reached over, turned off the stars, and in the darkness I felt the light.
flourish
Posted on January 3, 2017
If you love her petals without loving her thorns, then you never loved her petals. She’s but one flourish.