Greenie

Greenie Aug 2014

tear

And they say it should be unconditional
and it is, dear
but I'd never let you hear that from any lips of mine

Greenie Aug 2014

Effigy

Tanned feet on the pavement
with ocean-blue toenails to match your ocean-wide heart
Laughing at the setting sun, weaving promises under broken tables
Well-worn love letters in the wind, grass stained knees to care
and our sun-battered bikes we threw down on our race to catch lightning
breathing each other in like smoke under flickering streetlamps
The velvet of your valentines suit
matches the velvet of the rose I wouldn't wear
rain streamed down your face in pills
while I took your hand and gently pressed into your care
a heart, unbroken, untested, beating, and bare

Greenie Aug 2014

Untitled

you touched my soul and then you laughed.

Greenie Jun 2014

This I Know

I remember watching the sun
slide to the purple folds beneath my window
the day he died.
The oak of his coffin was grainy
/In Jerusalem there's no oak trees.

In kindergarten I sang of Jesus' love
the same way I sang of big blue dinosaurs that fly
Why is it that I can see them in my dreams but not Jesus?
after I've arranged all my clocks on the mantle from small to large
i'll sit in front and hold my breath till their silence drowns eachother out
maybe then he'll start the show

Jun 2014

Tom Leveille

emergency room knuckles

i have racked my mind
trying to figure this whole thing out
the staying, the going
the threads we claim hold us here
& the people who've stopped to play a tune on them
i sometimes relate it
to waking up in waist deep snow
in our former selves
the us we wish we could give one another
the children we've sat on the shelves
trapped, like the looks
we leave behind in snow globes
i sometimes imagine ships
dragging the bottom to the sea of "me"
for sleep & pieces of my old self
to sell to the new one
like history doesn't repeat itself
it gets me wondering
if you too want an apology from the rain
or if you dream of burning family photo albums
and wearing the ashes like perfume
if you're anything like me
how i hope god chokes
on memories of me blowing out candles as a child
i know i shouldn't reference my reader
but don't you know, the only difference
between alone & lonely is you?
that if my hands could talk
the only thing they'd be able to say
is "dear god we've missed you"
and how can you tell me it isn't love
when even the rain refuses to fall
in places where i've kissed you
i remember the day
you found my smile at a yard sale
it reminds me of how you'll leave
i wonder if when you go
you'll tell yourself
the person in the rear view mirror
is closer than they appear

Greenie Jun 2014

milk and honey

I
like the sun
to drip from shadows
and crawl across my lazy blue eyelids
as I lie here, in this palace
we call our own,
with desire to
cease.

Greenie May 2014

fml

even nights terrors visit me more , best friends ive ever had