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May 2022 · 495
The Block
Elle Kris May 2022
I forget the way to fill



an empty space.

How do I create
when all I've done is erase?
Jan 2019 · 257
Shoplusting
Elle Kris Jan 2019
Steal from me
Run your sticky fingers
Across my nearly bare shelves

Take it all
Fill your empty pockets
Until they grow and swell

I won't be happy
Until you strip the paint off my walls
Jun 2018 · 457
Heartbreak horticulture
Elle Kris Jun 2018
I bloomed like a flower for you.
An annual.
Feb 2018 · 1.1k
Devour
Elle Kris Feb 2018
My taste buds paint a picture so vivid
I have to say grace before I let my mind wander
Apr 2016 · 341
Thousands
Elle Kris Apr 2016
Our first time
in a long time
so dark and so sweet.
I imagine
being yours
beyond the sheets.
Aug 2015 · 524
Starving
Elle Kris Aug 2015
Warm body longs for love.
In and out.
So deep you scrape the darkness of my blue-black soul.

Throbbing heart craves release.
Please,
slip and slide
until you've nearly drowned.
Apr 2014 · 446
Pedagogy
Elle Kris Apr 2014
You taught me how to see in the dark.

And when you left for the last time,
you turned on the light.
Aug 2013 · 431
Verbatim
Elle Kris Aug 2013
Straight teeth.    
Divine thought.    
Sharp words buried seeds.
Making new,
feeling dead.
Apr 2013 · 478
Points
Elle Kris Apr 2013
They are translucent gray
and dance in the glimmers of light
when the moon is out.

They have four prongs and don't know
when to stop.

They are invisible sometimes,
and just sit inside my head.

They can sprout slowly, inch by
inch from my unknowing scalp.

Or they explode,
making holes.
Aug 2012 · 666
The Bull
Elle Kris Aug 2012
Promises made
when jeans feel tight.
Overfilling and underemptying
until I wear out.
Aug 2011 · 704
Illicitly Parallel
Elle Kris Aug 2011
We are straight lines
powdery and sharp,
carved into perfection.
We sit next to each other
forever
without touching.
Not finished
Aug 2011 · 1.1k
Wordplay
Elle Kris Aug 2011
Quite funny how words
arranged in a careful way
can become a sword.
Aug 2011 · 759
Burning
Elle Kris Aug 2011
I'm the stubborn cigarette
you just can't put out.
You want to walk away,
and you might.
But you will feel guilty
leaving me here to burn.
Aug 2011 · 666
Geography and Lust
Elle Kris Aug 2011
You will never know the feeling
of the smooth valley between her hips.

Your fingers will not cross
those lands, peaks and hollows.

You won't stumble across buried treasure
or the chance to please a woman
so divine.
Jul 2011 · 1.0k
Rorschach Skin
Elle Kris Jul 2011
I want to make marks
on your body.

Thin stinging fingernail trails
forming paths across your back.

Shallow-bitten divots
adorning your neck.

Burning palm-sized patches
staining your skin.

I want to hear your response
when people ask
who?
Jul 2011 · 565
Apples
Elle Kris Jul 2011
Too young for unforgiving teeth,
Green and bitter.
But you thought I was ready
for your love.
Jul 2011 · 786
Dandelion Seeds
Elle Kris Jul 2011
Potential wishes,
Newborn dreams and aspirations
waiting for their turn
in a world of cynics.
Will they ever have a chance to fly?
Optimism
is
dead.
But still, they wait patiently.
Just to fall and bear
a new generation, stuck in the same place.

— The End —