Jae Elle: Favorites

Oct 2012 Jae Elle

JL

Deny the doctor's orders
Become tangled in the barbed wire fences
And kiss bar girls on the cheek
The grass will grow and the sky is blue
Even if you are on food stamps
Even if you are worth millions

I don't love you
I love the soil
And the howling of wolves on the full moon
the hair on my neck stands up
When a cougar screams in the quarry
Exclaiming his triumph to the sky
With a mouth dripping warm blood

So far
I have not fallen in love with the painted on faces
But a girl who works in her garden during the hot afternoon
She sings to the pit bull sleeping on the path and in real life
She smiles and laughs brighter and louder than Times Square

Oct 2012 Jae Elle

Rug Burns

Oct 2012 Jae Elle

BB Tyler

Rug Burns

let's make love
let's push and shove
let's leave our skin
out on the rug
burning
and turning over
back to back
to smack me sober

Let's make love
let's kiss and hug
and **** until
we get rid of
the liquid
that keeps us
from being released
and fitted
with riches
two gemstones apiece

let's make love
let's push and shove
let's leave our skin
out on the rug

Oct 2012 Jae Elle

Colorful

Oct 2012 Jae Elle

Emily Tyler

Colorful

Red is too fire,
Orange too bright,
Yellow too dire,
Green is too light.

Blue is too tame,
Indigo's silly,
Violet's a name,
Pink is too frilly.

Those are the reasons
(I've been keeping track)
It changes like seasons,
Now black's the new black.

Oct 2012 Jae Elle

pretty, i like you

Oct 2012 Jae Elle

PK Wakefield

pretty, i like you

pretty, i like you

but more ugly

i like even

                  ;bruise

nice easy, pretty

eyes ringed darkly
and thick

(but like you hurt
    )throat pressed

      sigh and gurgle

maybe i'll, do you
want me to?do you

want red cheeks
aching quivers
('cause (Baby)
there's nothing)

i wouldn't do(2)4YOU

Oct 2012 Jae Elle

The Red Poppy

Oct 2012 Jae Elle

Louise Glück

The Red Poppy

The great thing
is not having
a mind. Feelings:
oh, I have those; they
govern me. I have
a lord in heaven
called the sun, and open
for him, showing him
the fire of my own heart, fire
like his presence.
What could such glory be
if not a heart? Oh my brothers and sisters,
were you like me once, long ago,
before you were human? Did you
permit yourselves
to open once, who would never
open again? Because in truth
I am speaking now
the way you do. I speak
because I am shattered.

Sep 2012 Jae Elle

Copper Coins

Sep 2012 Jae Elle

JL

Copper Coins

laugh at me
You are normal
Popular psyche exam
You forget me so easily
Oh
How the mighty have fallen
If I use that trite expression
Would you still listen to
Jazz and shooting stars
Slipping through the
confines of your eyelids
I was the master Now the Slave
Once a biochemist-
Now blind children divine the future with my finger-bones
Where is the peace i deserve?
How dare this life pour itself out upon me!
I have spent too much time inside this mind
Trying to understand your question marks
Rereading your sentences-learning to read between lines
I am a young god or a soul
I am an aged demon full of electrons
Draw the line here
I am a poet to snakes
Dreaming of becoming a bird
Birds dreaming of mouthfuls of insects