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 Jan 2013 anne collins
A Tayea
I don’t speak in Morse,
so I shall make it brief.
Nothing more than a terse,
but a vivid message as well, it shall be.
My words shall be utterly clear,
OH Hannah my sweet loving dear!

I may have been a bit unduly far,
but certainly I haven’t been near.
With your feelings I tried to be on par,
but who knows, I may have been very austere.
Austere that I thought your passions were of a low price,
I still remember how I overlooked you twice.

It is my fault, that my chance of getting you back,
is no more than the prospect a number has on a dice.
One out of six sounds sporadic to the ear,
but I will fight the odds all over here.
For your feelings lie in a sealed sack
that can’t be released even in a year,
unless I amend the fact that I’m austere.
have to pay those bills keep us distracted
tell us the facts that are contracted
reversed it but none reacted
to the knowledge they say they lack it
accept or deny read between the line
instead get drunk and sip some wine
don't worry it will be fine
there is plenty of twine
to wrap us and define
who we are
your shoes your hair your car
what you eat and drink at the bar
you reach for the star
the rest don't exist
yet still you persist
to attend feeling mist
soaked and covered you twist
turn and want to yearn
you feel it in you and burn
the chances you have scorn
you want to learn
to make money and then
do the same again
just let me know when
you want to wake up and begin
to see there is more
that this life isn't a chore
don't let them bore
into your mind so you're their *****
Vertiginous
                                 Loss of brain
                  Can't quite focus
In this ****** of ecstasy
                                                       Climaxing

Her pink body on top of mine
Metallic clangs and
                             Plastic bangs
We connect
                Cupping her hips
                                      we meld our metals
                                     together.

Together we sit
Fitting leg in leg
Arm in arm interlocking
                                         Her body on top of mine
                                      The smell of her plastic
                                   grazing my seat
                                                  Her bottom, underneath
                                                      ­                                                    stained with gum and disregard
                                  I keep
Upon my lap
the tickle of her back
                                                            ­       set a distance from my own
                              a way to come closer
   pink    on    pink     metal     on    metal
we sit
together.

Together we are proud
Publicly alone
Embracing in Totality
Windows close around us
                                                       Fits of              Dysfunction
                                The Wonky Garbled Mess
Fading to Chaos
to nothing...

blackened dizziness
           of unreality

as we sit
encircled
embracing
forever
alone
together.
Poem inspired by a photograph titled Vertiginous 2253 shown in gallery preview in Philadelphia Museum of Art
 Jan 2013 anne collins
Lucy Bee
With every breathe I take
it hits me
Like a blank page wrapping around my bare skin
The darkness plummeting through my pores
past my blood
through my muscles
penetrating my bones
encapsulating my inner self
yet only seen through the crease of my eyes
Remember the day we caught the train?
It was never the start
A change of heart, maybe
But I know
We were too young and blind to see
That I’d end up sat on the train; a passenger
A stranger to what we could’ve had.
We rode the coast
But you smashed the solid rock over my brighter day
Write another song to capture my pain.
If every time I wanted you, I could go home
Ride the coast with you, step into the sky, why
I’d never stop
I guess I can’t anyway, though
Or I wouldn’t know what it’s like to be sad.
Maybe it’s time to let go for a while, stop counting the days I’ve missed
Don’t you want those days?
No. I’m just a passenger. This isn’t right.
I know you, and I shiver inside. Do you even see
That it was never the start
Was there ever an end? It was your change of heart.
I’ll wait for another now, so that I can have
The taste of smoke on your breath when we wind up in our favourite coats.
Step through the door and this empty gray will transform
Be a golden June again
Or a fluster of snow and the firelight on your back.
I guess I’ll have to content myself
With the memories
When things are getting wild.
I guess I’m just not the kind of girl
Not the sort you can see in your world
Just a passenger; a stranger to all the things I could’ve had.
I’ll sit all alone, let it hold me down
Hope I roll my lucky number so that you’ll hear
“You and I should ride the coast…”
 Jan 2013 anne collins
Ryan B
You're the light in the morning,
the stars at night;
the first person I look for,
and the person I can never find;
you left me here, and I thought I was happy,
but saying I'm happy isn't quite right;
you are my other half, in a funny sort of way,
which makes you always on my mind
nearly night and day.
If love is a garden, growing green,
And lock'd away, to be ne'er seen,
Then mine is dead and abused,
Neglected and disused.
For while you toil and labor,
I seek only favour.

For Love is only cruel;
Life's unpleasant gruel
And pleasure should reign,
As forthwith we gain
And stride to endeavor
Ourselves to find pleasure.
Summer, 2010
I had a dream
it was you
we talked about a game
lines of text

The dream so real
elated by contact, digital
ephemeral emotion
painful self deception

I wake
eyes open
a moment of confusion
left longing for
my digital delusion
©2009-2010 Michael Acosta
My mother never appeared in public
without lipstick. If we were going out,
I’d have to wait by the door until
she painted her lips and turned
from the hallway mirror,
put on her gloves and picked up her purse,
opening the purse to see
if she’d remembered tissues.

After lunch in a restaurant
she might ask,
"Do I need lipstick?"
If I said yes,
she would discretely turn
and refresh her faded lips.
Opening the black and gold canister,
she’d peer in a round compact
as if she were looking into another world.
Then she’d touch her lips to a tissue.

Whenever I went searching
in her coat pocket or purse
for coins or candy
I’d find, crumpled,
those small white tissues
covered with bloodred kisses.
I’d slip them into to my pocket,
along with the stones and feathers
I thought, back then, I’d keep.
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