I twitch in the middle of the night
And it feels like the love is trying to
tear through me
Right underneath my skin
Is a raging river
Flooding up my insides with
you
The stars were twinkling in the sky
As bright as your eyes were
When I first unbuttoned your blouse
And they haven't stopped yet,
No, they're still piercing through me
Like two supernovas-
I caused it
I was the catastrophe that made them
You told me that if I knew my directions
I could find the key to your heart
So I searched through the rubble
Of all of the dead end lovers that had come before
And the only place that I forgot to check
Was right between your fingers
Aug 15, 2013
Aug 15, 2013 at 10:40 PM UTC
you have freckles right underneath your eyes
right in the place where i plant kisses
like the floorboard that I step on
every time I take off my shoes
when i go to bed
- i have half moons,
bags that i carry through the day-
they'll lead you to places when the time comes
- those baby blue sheets
that i hide under at night
are the same beautiful color
that i see
when i peek out from under the covers
- the place on your neck
that you say you hate
i know i can't make you love it more
but i'll kiss all of the bruises
i'll try to wash them away
along with the chills
that run like rivers
down my spine
every time you leave
that taste
on me
Aug 12, 2013
Aug 12, 2013 at 5:26 PM UTC
*your lips have receded
they no longer come in waves
they flow away from me
and they don't turn back*
Aug 12, 2013
Aug 12, 2013 at 5:19 PM UTC
i waited for the roller coaster
with my feet in a puddle
that reflected all the words you had said to me
the incline on the coaster jogged my memories of you
made my brain feel - cluttered
the rush that I got, as I got spun around and pushed under,
was almost as blissfully painful as the memories of you left in my head
Aug 12, 2013
Aug 12, 2013 at 5:16 PM UTC
Forty days and forty nights
*that's how long I want to **** you*
I don't mean to bring parables into this
I just need to be the butterflies in your stomach
like Jonah and the whale
* You're so far from the devil,*
But, you're tied to Hell's ankles
I want to be Moses
* your legs can be the sea*
I don't think you know how much I adore you
Aug 12, 2013
Aug 12, 2013 at 4:39 PM UTC
*I don't mean to say all of these wordy riffs
All I'm trying to say is that
I want the tufts of your hair
in my brittle open hand
I want my fingers in every nook,
Every room in your mind
I want something to latch onto
When our bodies are rendering smoke*
Aug 11, 2013
Aug 11, 2013 at 8:39 PM UTC
you **** with the books on my shelf
and the only thing i ask of you
is to put them back
in the correct order
so that once they're in place
they fit together
exactly the way they were
before you touched them
Aug 5, 2013
Aug 5, 2013 at 12:42 AM UTC
your arms
are only two of the branches
that fall and collapse on me
your eyelashes,
as long as dinosaur bones,
traced the flesh of my shoulder
as your face met mine
this ***** heart that i have,
pumped like a running race horse
trying to cross the finish line
powered by the electricity in your eyes
your fingers, delicate twigs
on the edge of breaking
right through my skin
the canary sings love songs atop your high rise
i climb up and sing along,
"i love you"
Jul 25, 2013
Jul 25, 2013 at 4:13 PM UTC
my legs are shaking with pride
or is it fear
that the roots have clasped onto
buckled at the belt
i am tied to my own apprehension
chainsawing my way through myself
is the best way to reach the core
Jul 18, 2013
Jul 18, 2013 at 7:35 PM UTC
Lay my heart beside the sea
I'll convulse silently
I then fell off the tree
Blacked my eye, scraped my knee
The currents were wild-
they ran free like a child.
From the door, to the rocks-
they stumbled at the docks.
When at last I got up-
from the sand and the muck-
I collapsed, once again, from the tide and the wind.
And finally I did see, the shore looking at me- laughing gallantly,
the shore said to me,
"Do not stumble again, you're too weak, you're too thin, don't you shake, for, you see? You are free, you are free"
Apr 14, 2013
Apr 14, 2013 at 8:40 PM UTC