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schuyler Feb 2018
after.

the dawn enters its liminal state, making way for the brightening day. she closes her journal and squints at the rising sunlight winking at her in the waves, beckoning to be conversed with in the last remnants of

the morning.

walking back, she silently promises the shore of her return. the weathered wood is firm beneath her feet, the soft creak of the floorboards the only indication of her presence. at the sight, she

gazes fondly.

for the now risen figure smiles a knowing smile from behind his coffee, and approaches, the scent of pine and lavender enveloping her, settling her mind, and for the second moment that morning, a smile forms upon her lips.
part three
schuyler Feb 2018
,i am the darkest hue of color

;not quite black

,i am with the faintest trace of chroma

;not quite black

(yet
schuyler Feb 2018
eyelash that clings to a cheek?
or maybe the snow that falls silently at midnight.
perhaps i am the scuffling of feet on rainy pavement.
unplaceable, uncategorized—i feel like this a lot.
that one song that you can't seem to place in any playlists.
not quite sunrise, i guess.
schuyler Jan 2018
barefoot.

the pallid sand kneads and spills over her toes with each step. the arrhythmic waves ebb up the beach, hissing on their return to the azure ocean, just to rumble and reform, reaching higher up

on the shore, fanning out.

closer now, she is overcome with rapture, she takes a pneumatic moment to let her pores absorb and receive all that the sea has seduced her with. digging her feet into the divine sand and tasting residue of sea salt on

her lips.

after an eternity, she opens her journal, scrawling on the grained pages the ethereal sounds of the swelling, crashing, whistling that fills her ears and stimulates her marrow. indeed is the depth of her ecstasy
part two
schuyler Jan 2018
he shoots a grin that glances off my face.
his is blunt, meant to bruise.

and i return the blow, making certain that
my smile is sharp, meant to cut.
just a quick postulation
schuyler Jan 2018
flowers in twos
one for me
and one for you
schuyler Feb 2018
periwinkle—a color that should make me happy, my mother said.
she is right, but all the walls have seen is sorrow.
schuyler Feb 2018
i know sadness.

but there is also, i think, the kind of sadness that you feel in your fingertips, your ribs, your elbows, your forehead, your teeth—

i know that sadness too.
schuyler Jan 2018
dampened gravel crunches underfoot as i approach the bank.
still, as the ashen valves in my heart, the glassy surface reflects my watery figure.
daringly, unhesitantly, i peer.
what i see would have forced a shaky breath to escape my throat and form a dispairing cloud in the icy air.
but now, what i see does not even allow a flinch.
for the pith of my bones was glowing through my raw skin;

and my eyes, once slate, had turned
an inky obsidian.
schuyler Jan 2018
this silly journal won't stay closed!
i laugh, for even it cannot keep my secrets.
"read me!" it bellows from its ajar, scrawled upon pages.
"look at me!" it beckons from its sprung obtuseness.
"oh stop that" i murmur as i make paltry attempt to bend the spine into secured concealment
of my secrets.
schuyler Jan 2018
Sickly sweet and positively succulent
Saccharine yet satirical,
her words thickly ooze over your fingers like honey.
From crystallized venom to velvety mellifluousness.
She has you in a vice grip.
You flinch, whimper, and quake from her articulations; terror
and wonder cinched together and choking you to incoherency.
And you can't get enough.
schuyler Jan 2018
she.

rising with the sun, she rubs her eyes and peers gently at the figure beside her, breathing softly and in time with the delicate morning

waves.

her lips curl lightly at the edges from the sight of the watery morning that peaks through the blinds and paints peach-colored lines on his

back.

******* the string to her tea sachet her love steeps throughout her ribs like the flavor of bergamot throughout tea water.
shifting her gaze to the ocean, she basks in the salty aroma wafting in

from the sea.

it sends a breeze, caressing her cheeks, airily lifting her unruly waves, and dancing around her fingers.
a muted chuckle escapes from under her tongue.
misted, cerulean, and undulating, the sea beckons her presence.
she finds no resistance in her heart, so, light as the morning, she scoops up her worn journal and pen, and sets about the open beach.
this is just part one
schuyler Jan 2018
what about the poems that try to encapsulate the happy feelings?
the immediates, the too instantaneous to write languidly?

there are emotions that strike you like lightning
***** you like a pin
tickle you like a feather

the emotions that slap you across the face and ignite as quickly as a match, but then are extinguished just as fast. and i guess writing about the small stream of quickly cooling smoke isn't enough.

everyone writes about the depths and the caverns of sadness and sorrow, guilt and regret.
perhaps it's easier to notice the details of an emotion that rips through you much slower.

but the sharpness and the searing of giddiness, surprise, and shock flash through you in a blinding instance, white-hot and cauterizing.
we should write about those more, i think.
schuyler Jan 2018
oh, the crimson edge of your cutting lips.
                    slicing,
                         enticing
(****).
schuyler Jan 2018
the soul's hue is
blue! oh, yes blue!
i throw myself unto you!

catch me, please.
for without you, i cease—
inspired by maggie nelson's book entitled "bluets"
schuyler Feb 2018
i bask in the arctic moon,
its bright light unyielding—
its silver beams flooding the expansive canvas of ragged mountains starch and piercing against the onyx sky.
starless, the raven sweeps over head.
the silence of the snow does not forgive.
the iced air stings my skin, renders my blood to blue
yet i bask, for the chill is enticing,
just like you.

— The End —