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Everybody Out!
Sell me a space in the shadows,let me live behind a locked door,surrounded by the sweetness of unspeculative silence. I care for the kind of quiet that doesn’t guess,a lush loneliness,moonlight serenade of stillness. I am sleeping in the dreams of somebody else tonight,littered with letters,sewn onto my skin,because I stopped being convincing, somewhere in…
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Is it really this easy?
Gaslit by the spirits,watching them twist and turn under the lamplight as I dream my silly dreams,pleading my silly case,watching their lips curve into crooked smiles as thunder crashes, collapsing against the clouds. Is it really this easy?Is it really this easy to get the things you want in life?I should ask,but I don’t.I know…
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It Was Just A Dream
I had a dream that she stopped loving me. The sky was pretty when she sent me away,not a tear from the clouds, who were braver than I,but I left an ocean on her shoulder,my claws deep in the flesh of her palm as they pulled me from her and down into the abyss. I…
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Thunderstorms, Tempting Gallows
She’s hiding somewhere in lost memories,lips lost behind her hands so she won’t make a sound,thunderstorms,tempting gallows,while the earth keeps turning round. Not tonight.Not for a minute.You’ve got plans. I wish I could call her tomorrow,say that it all turned out just fine,but she knows every inch of my voice,she knows when I lie,even if…
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Inevitable Rain
The sun rose,so I followed,the sky, warm and welcoming,before the clouds came.The clouds always come,and I am always surprised,as if the sunrise cannot ever be a signal of something other than brightness. The sun rose,and I responded, with my usual enthusiasm and blind optimism,running around myself to escape the inevitable rain,but just like the clouds,it…
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Sincerely, Jennifer x 