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Cherry Blossoms
Cherry blossoms caught in my hair, as I return home. The air is ice, but I am warmed by your arms. First around my waist, then gently pulling me into you entirely, your lips letting me know, that you’d prefer me to stay home. I had plans, but now I have your hand in mine,…
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The Raven
My raven couldn’t wait a second more, ignoring my door, rapping on my insecure mind, finding routes inside, tearing out the safe affirmations I had acquired, since he last came knocking. Darkness there and nothing more, after the raven was done, ripping down the reminders I’d left, all across my life, of the ways I…
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Some Girls Just Need To Be Influenced
I cut rivers from the mountains, of a man’s chest, swimming in scarlet, because you ask it of me. I fall asleep every night, with my head on your knee, your voice is my lullaby, and I dream of violent delights, my Charlie, blue. Silver blade in my belt, your ideas inched inside my head,…
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You Make Me Want To Paint My Nails In Pretty Colours
Pick out a pretty colour, paint my nails while I’m docile, Aphrodite whispers up above us, erstwhile lovers, that became something more. My soul is yours, reborn in the July sun, when it set, resetting me, pulling me from the purified dirt, sleeping until it was safe, onwards, to September, when you crossed my path,…
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New Moon Rituals
I set fire to my past, while the new moon slept around my shoulders. Stars set their eyes upon me, weeping with my brown eyes, steeped in sympathy, seeing the world turn, fate turning with it. I embrace embers, cherry red, wrapped around me, burning and cleansing, falling to firm concrete, finding my way to…
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Sincerely, Jennifer x 