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jǫrð Mar 2023
Is that bark
Still recovering

From a half
Decade's winter ago

When I hiked
To your barren lumber shed

And skinned that
Neighboring tree

For something dry
To turn to flame
The History: I loved a man in the Kentucky winter. That winter he left me alone for days. No food, a floridian in a mountain shack, with a wood burning stove and no kindling. I found myself in 10°, short shorts, with an open wound the size of a football between my *** cheeks, in calf high snow, stripping the bark from the trees for something to create warmth.
jǫrð Oct 2022
I'd recorded all
My old words, I left unsaid
On to something new
The History: Old words above, written some time ago, in reference to the old words I'd left unpublished, then published at once. "A never ending chain of Mailmen"
jǫrð Oct 2020
Drove home with my mind
A song that played inside and
Kept me occupied
jǫrð Jan 7
Cast me into
Your inferno
I want to go
Where you're
Going
I want to see
That flame, feel
It grow within
As a newborn
Would
The History: As if I could truly love any lesser man.
jǫrð Jul 2021
It is madness who's
Taught glands fill my mouth, I draw
Warmth from her *****
The History: Everything is born from chaos.
jǫrð Jul 2021
Found me out in the
Sycamore tree, swaying soft
On an evening breeze
The History: Pink and White Winters
jǫrð Nov 2020
The many faces
Of Bo, how they twist and change
Like the wind today
jǫrð Jan 29
They fear
What it is
That lies
Beyond
The scope
Of their
Understanding
And I wouldn't
Have been
Ready for
The path I
Have chosen
If not for being
Polarized once
Myself
The History: I was often called evil, and without conscience. They branded me with the scarlet A, and so I've returned to them the purple finger.
jǫrð Nov 2023
I found the transcript,
All my transgressions
Sat heavy in the bottom
Of the ottoman you left out
On the porch when the hurricane came.

And next to that, a toy
Spot, as he was once called,
Risen once more to claim
The key of my death,
Of all that was once white and innocent.

I can read between the lines,
I've become an expert at that
And I know what she meant
When she placed these together
Like a time capsule of my fall from grace

She never wanted me anyway.
The History: My only crime, was that I thought I loved someone much older than myself. My brother came home from the military, and created unnecessary conflict. He coached my mother to have the man I was seemingly in love with arrested and I blamed myself for his lost years.  I always knew her actions were correct though my feelings were unwavering. That's what young love does. She always told me I, "Chose a man over my own family" all the while leaving me without proper medical treatment, or food or care to go out with men she was seeing. She was a bar fly that never married.
After abandoning me for a short while as a child to party here in Florida, she took me back and we moved here permanently. She took me from my father to spite him. She wanted me to take care of her when she was dying. Made me promise I would my whole life. I loved her through all of the abuse.
I wasn't there when she passed though. I never expected her to go so suddenly. And when I went to her home, I found the courtroom transcript of my greatest trauma placed with my very first toy from childhood. The one she placed in my crib at birth. One last dig from beyond the grave.
jǫrð May 2023
I think you want
To be hurt by me
As most often do
The History: Masochists disguised as normal people with personality disorders
jǫrð Apr 2021
I was transfixed by
That wandering eye, a spec
In a cup of milk
The History: That one thing about someone that absolutely stands out, good or bad.
jǫrð Aug 2023
She said
Women don't
sit at the head
of the table

At first I was
Taken aback
By the covert
Misogyny

To know that
She worked in
Human resources
Was laughable

I could have
Screamed or
Wept for her
Ignorance, instead

I sat glaring
At the fool
That she had
Placed there

And when his
Demise began
I realized the
Truth in her words

She was an incapable leader.
The History: Projection
jǫrð Oct 2020
I was wrapped up in
Visions of it all, but when
The rope slips, I fall.
jǫrð Jul 2022
Beckoning to me
The door open
The room clean
All except for you and me

I lost my mind
There on the floor
You gave me some
I needed some more

Pushed my legs back
Sank in deep
I didn't make a peep
For you, I'm meek
The History: I dreamt of loving you. Dreamt of your tongue, dreamt of your eyes meeting mine in the room in which I'm seated as I write this. That dream never came true but I can use it to cope.
jǫrð Feb 2021
Hammered the last
Nail in my coffin
From the inside sticking out
For some unfortunate
Future soles' finding
The History: Have you ever trained your replacement?
jǫrð Jul 2023
In sanguine devotion
I give this body
for your
consumption
until my river
runs dry
until my soil
grows barren
until my sky
turns ashen
until my blaze
fades to ember
The History: Praise be
jǫrð Jul 2021
Hello, yes, I think
I got turned around somewhere
On my merry way
The History: Lost.
jǫrð Dec 2020
I had to confront
The truth that underlined us
Penetralia
The History: I said it.
jǫrð Jul 2021
I couldn't bleed red
For just anybody, I
Hope you understand
The History: Uncanny Valley
jǫrð Jan 2021
He says he got no
Sugar. Says he won't go to
No stores for lovers
The History: You got a call, then turned to me,  'I don't get any sugar' you said and I said "same".
jǫrð Nov 2023
Learned this lesson as a child
Don't say more than you have to
And never write it down
Unless you want someone to read it
I keep forgetting
For the sake of being myself
The History: People respond better when I don't have much to say.
jǫrð Jul 2023
How, I thought,
Had I ever dreamt
Alone

Once upon a time,
When I knew not his
Fire

Free from embrace,
Assimilated by
Solitude

To revel in
Egyptian cottons
Desolate

--

How he burns me
From the inside
Out

I crave him, so,
My sleeping
Dragon

The heat in his belly
And beneath his
Skin

And I wake him
When the need
Arises

To fill me once more
With his morning
Light
The History: I would always say I need to sleep alone or else I can't rest. It turns out, I just needed to feel safe. I never want to be alone again.
jǫrð Apr 2021
I'll give up on you
Like you want me to and I
Won't push the issue
The History: ok.
jǫrð Nov 2020
I am not, and I
Am living all for naught, in
This drunken stupor
jǫrð Nov 2020
A little less fuel
For warmth and
Hopeful things
The History: It is time to shift focus. Throw some dank soil on the fire and walk away.
jǫrð Nov 2020
I thought you, another bygone vessel in the night on to some warm destiny.

How terribly wrong I was to ignore the depths between us.
The History: Was actually written as a description to a similar thought.
jǫrð Dec 2020
On the tenth winter
Your misery left me like
Migratory birds
The History: You have been gone from me for 10 years and I will never be the same. Thank you and ******* very much.
jǫrð Nov 2020
I look to you and
Find myself longing to be
As a buffet would
jǫrð Jan 2021
Bleak futures are the
hardest part of giving up
and moving along
The History: Is history.
jǫrð Jul 2020
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jǫrð Nov 2023
Speak
As though you've
Learned anything
You little stump
Of a man

When I confide
In you, just
Cut me off and
Talk about
The elements again

Listen
As though you've
Got any other
Motive but *******
Me someday

And I'll pretend
You're a friend
Until you do it
Again and then
I'm walking away
The History: I have been kind to others for far too long. They treat me like a therapist and then discard me unless their ego can be inflated. I'm tired of people listening to respond, and not listening to understand. I am going to walk away from you when I tell you, "I think I'm being followed home from work" and you go, "Ya, so I was getting water..." Not your therapist.
jǫrð Oct 2023
He died here
And his soul
Says, with the
Sky,
"Look away
Child, avert
Your eyes,
From these
Continuous
Atrocities
You are
Powerless to
Change.

Look to the
Colors ive
Painted high
Those who
Could, will
Never help"
We admire
The sunset
And search
The astral
Instead.
The History: I sat where he was hit for a while, they say I shouldn't be upset, I didn't watch him die, I was merely there for the precursors to the event. How is that any better? I look away from the crosswalk, to my left. I see the sky painted the most gorgeous sunset each time I miss him. I weep, because this was all entirely preventable and everyone just looked away when something could have been done months in advance, after I said something. Now nothing can bring him back, and they just don't think about it.
jǫrð Feb 2021
All the time
I hear it
He said to me
Sweetie be a
Sweet thing
for me
The History: When a stranger calls me sweetie, I want to decapitate them.
jǫrð Dec 2020
I love you when you're
Strings of caramel melting
Soft and warm and sweet
The History: You exist somewhere between solid and fluid.
jǫrð Nov 2020
Nature Boy plays on
Nocturne against the damask
Turned down, waiting too
jǫrð Feb 2021
Overts and lies
Condescention, I
Noticed when you
thought I couldn't
You dont have to
Come here and smile
and extend a hand
to me with
false camaraderie
Don't bother
Feigning delight
When I'm ushered in
With the dawn of
some blistering
Winter morning
And when you wish
to spin golden tales
of grandiousity, refrain
Continue the day

And leave me out of it.
The History: People try to act like they don't have a problem with me.
jǫrð Nov 2020
Baby when you strut
The latitude, Violet
Violence ensues
jǫrð Nov 2020
Thanked me for flowers
Printed across my breast, Odd
You're welcome I guess
The History: It's the busiest time of the year. I wore my favorite shirt today. You pointed it out and even thanked me for it; which perked my ears. Freud is blushing somewhere.
jǫrð Jul 2021
Curtsy for the crowd
Stare into that spotlight and
Pretend they're bare too
The History: Performance
jǫrð Nov 2020
Cruisin' for your
Bruisin', & by the
Sound of it you know
The History: You act like you dont.
jǫrð Jan 2021
Extended my half
Of the olive branch, and you,
Took it in your flight
The History: I tried to be civil but I can tell when I'm not wanted somewhere.
jǫrð Jul 2021
It was bright and blue
The sea below the beacon
On early dolphin days
The History: Beach day
jǫrð Jul 2022
I felt the light die in my womb
& I wanted him more than I wanted you

Bled out on my side of the bed
Whilst you laid down your languorous head

You turned to me once, crying out and said,
"Stop" and at once I did.
The History: I wanted my baby. I wanted to be able to rely on you but you left me alone in every way.
jǫrð Sep 2022
The folds in your boots
Ain't clean enough
I'd be hands and knees at peace

There.
The History: Christ
jǫrð Dec 2023
Death found me in 6
He knocked at my door
And when I opened it
He knew my agony
Inherently
And kissed me once
Between the eyes before
Moving on to number 5
I heard my neighbor
Let out a desperate
Wail and knew he had
Claimed another instead
The History: I have been extremely ill today. I've not slept a wink. My head is pounding and I am feeling so lost and confused. My neighbor in 5 let out a scream that I have projected before. The ambulance came shortly after and what looked like a small body was eventually removed.
jǫrð May 2023
White orchids bloomed
On the left side of the bed
In the crimson afterglow
I bled
The History: Something wicked this way came.
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