tracy-malloy - Hello Poetry

tracy-malloy

tracy-malloy

a native of Santa Fe before the stars / lost in my own head most days / aging waywardly / I have lived on both coasts and can never go home / because the stars lease my playgrounds / to feed their pretty sheep

love heart will hands hope mother hot sweetness real reaching quiet empty baby doctor price hold shoulders prison life find dark dreams sweet loneliness wonder thoughts keep door doomed matter cotton clean father lost heroic tears loving husband silently sleeps cuffs light passing deep beating rummage yearn mine thought learned smile beneath memories pumped unity wife lives held air yearning work crazy fresh role loses bend resonance burning pretending night pure pay sleep blood pain golden stand counterfeit food safe burdens struggle tune ticks forms mountains minuet knowing expecting worry clothe sleeves brave shadows pecking leave caring crisp skills hell send traded flowers forgotten asked spoken drawers ugly reach endless eye bay fling bear hoping bring depravity beautiful stars mornings understanding lifting death help walls steadily turning dare tickle throat shards rescue match rising waiting recuperating water course safety occurs fetch inevitable sky bitter joined cup uniform slimy flaccid tll