Angry as ghost
locked behind light fixture
Only brain stem reminds her to breath
Gutter mouth.
A decade of nicotine shows
With each open mouth exhale
Yellow.
Her lights flicker
Off.
On.
Off.
Clawing desperately
At trails of used up lovers
She is pounding on plexiglass
hear her howl when the wind kicks up
Cracking body hard
against willows and firs
kicking tirelessly at Midwest dirt.
Reason wanes
Tangled in blunder
Still,
She is not lost lovers
Reminding her to breath.
Mar 18, 2019
Mar 18, 2019 at 12:10 PM UTC
You were untamable
Stormy by nature
Rain that falls through the spaces between each finger
Pressed together so tight
I still could not contain you.
Nov 2, 2018
Nov 2, 2018 at 4:47 PM UTC
He is Drowned
Contours of chest holding hollow air
Silent as empty promise
Buried along side broken glass.
The muck between his ears, distant.
Easily forgotten
Now my neurons fire like tangled thread
Bottles drained
Each sip twisting meanings
I must be worthless
These hands were bread to serve
To save
There is worth in salvation
If it is all that I have left
I will deliver it to him
May 27, 2018
May 27, 2018 at 10:45 AM UTC
He flirts with lady bugs
Head full of dirt
Green snot leaks towards lip
He finds her voice in all the right places
those hands that hold rib cage
Breath
She says
Shadows dance
On quivering honey locus leaves
Day Lillies
Toss pollen to the wind
Remember this moment
She whispers
And my love will always find you
May 20, 2018
May 20, 2018 at 11:18 PM UTC
Big belly me
With wild bubble gum fantasies
Hands stretched to dirt
And waiting
I used to get lost in shapeshifter drywall
Marker pressed to cracked paint
Crayola Picasso
Big belly me is giddy like
sidewalk chalk potions
sugar strawberries and flavored play-doe
Your tiny fingers will trace
worlds undiscovered in
sand castles
we blow to the wind
And
closets are doorways
Not sanctuary’s
Home is not whispered to
late night beanie babies
With salty eyes
It is in my arms
So long they wrap around twice
May 18, 2018
May 18, 2018 at 3:52 PM UTC