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Christmas List
Right now,all I want for Christmas is some diamonds,maybe a mansion,and something sweet and simple like a lie in,with toasty sheets and a duvet that holds me as if she is deeply in love,but as times goes on,and I count down on my calendar,I imagine I will settle for baking a batch of botched cookies…
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Don’t Pray Anymore
You think and you pray.God gestures to the answers,but you close your eyes. Death draws a new breath,bullets pierce peaceful places.You just pray again. Don’t pray anymore.
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Oracle
The future found me,wandering and wondering,and as we danced in the dark dawn,the last of autumn’s leaves twirling to the ground,I became an oracle.
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Falling Awake
Fluorescent, flashing lights go out, and I am descended into a darkness, so desperate that it draws its arms around me and holds on. I hold my nerve, hollow, held breaths as I count the beats of my heart, each one taking longer than the last to arrive because I am travelling, trailed by the…
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The Ice Cream Man
Nobody wants an ice cream in November, but that doesn’t stop Tony from making his rounds. He drives around the estate every evening at five, every day of the year, even Christmas, but nobody ever buys ice cream from him. Not in November. Not in August. Not ever. The jingle jangle of When You Wish…
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Sincerely, Jennifer x 