I lay close to you,
Curled to the shape of your stonework body
Tracing the vines crawling on your arms
To the lavenders springing
From your cracked palms
And your back is the meadow I bury myself in
Half-picking foxgloves and goldenrods
Growing on your spine
Day after day, I watch you
Wondering about the dreams behind
Your eyelids covered in moss,
Softly kissing the dandelion dust
Collecting on your cheeks
While stringing a garland of daisies
To wear around your head
I sit here, longing to taste the dewdrops
Hanging at the corners of your mouth
But until your wake, I will await
The sweet honeysuckle
That is your tongue
Aug 4, 2015
Aug 4, 2015 at 11:34 PM UTC
We love like thunder
Like lightning splitting the sky
Like the earth knows this
Jul 2, 2015
Jul 2, 2015 at 9:40 PM UTC
We are savages;
Lion and lioness taming one another
And we kiss until the carnival comes
We put on a show,
And we do not moan to the whips beating us
All teeth, all sharpness,
We claw our way out of our cages
They lashed you 50 times,
I kiss you 51
We roar louder in the dark
We are wild in each other's mouths
And we kiss until the carnival comes
Jun 15, 2015
Jun 15, 2015 at 9:39 PM UTC
Nights like these
I feel soft, spineless
Lilies growing in my liver
Wingless, tethered to my bed post
Body one with the sheets,
One with the waxen moon
The lonesome crescent
That knows what it’s like to sleep alone,
That knows the phantom ache
Of being dissevered
From its gibbous lover
Jun 8, 2015
Jun 8, 2015 at 10:01 PM UTC
You found me in the underlit,
Said I was worth saving
So you stole the fire
Only to put it back inside of me
I licked the flames from your fingers
Like a fennel stalk
And in turn, your immortal mouth
Met my soft,
Devoured my flesh
And each time we kissed,
We burned
With only bones left
But the gods were not so pleased
With our offering
They picked on your insides, dissected you
For the parts of me
That made you whole
And left you aching, aching, aching
And empty
My brave titan,
I will never forget the warmth
Of your scorched hands,
The taste of salvation
Jun 3, 2015
Jun 3, 2015 at 9:21 PM UTC
In desperation
To fill this empty *****
I invented you
May 28, 2015
May 28, 2015 at 9:46 PM UTC
Here, the gods did not listen
When you cried
Here, disarmed
Here, fallen
Here, I laid you down
With kisses soft
Until you fell asleep forever
Here, the gods did not listen
When I cried
But I made sure the earth remembered
When you died
Here, in the pool of ichor
I planted my heart in disguise
And blood-red windflowers grew
Here, here and here –
I have loved you
May 20, 2015
May 20, 2015 at 10:42 PM UTC
We are not ruins, mother, not yet –
Let us live, let us love,
Let us make history
Let us kiss ourselves into marble statues,
Kiss until we are mounted onto museum walls
And we will be a spectacle
Not the way you look at us, mother
Call us a tragedy
So we dance and make it a beautiful one
So we wake again when the earth is asleep
May 15, 2015
May 15, 2015 at 10:40 PM UTC
Even Icarus knew this:
To kiss the sky was not enough
With lips like feathered wings
Smeared with wax
I will fly and fall
Over and over
Just to hover across
Your mouth like the sun
May 11, 2015
May 11, 2015 at 10:36 PM UTC
You leaned in close and said,
"There is no lull before the storm"
You warned me about the wrath of gods like you,
That you were born with lightning inside
And this is why when you cry,
A terrible flood sweeps across the land
I hold you near and the earth is shaking beneath our feet
You said, "You are the lull before the storm,"
And you kiss me like thunder, you kiss me hard
That I am a mountain leveled flat
And this is why your heart is not mine –
That when I leave,
I cannot take it with me
Like Mjolnir in Thor’s hand,
A heart is like a hammer
May 6, 2015
May 6, 2015 at 9:07 PM UTC