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The Last Thing He Said, In Silence
The last thing he said, in silence,was that my love was not enough for him to depend on.In the echoes of an empty hallway,his shadow, dancing in the distance,he was so clear, that he couldn’t give it all up for me. He used to carry me with him,like a lucky penny,or the hip flask full…
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Things I Tried To Stop Saying To Myself In The Mirror Every Morning
Look at me. Let yourself be honest about what you are presented with. I have never been a Princess, never tainted and torn apart by a destiny, never really on the road to anywhere special, just dropped into a dull commuter town, sprinkled with a little exotic culture and left to get on with it.…
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Final Moments
It was the day after the dazed daydream before,and I had dreamed of a hurried escape from certain death,clasped in the grasp of my own lapsed judgement,I had been in all kinds of trouble, as usual.Up to my knees in never ending nonsense,wading through water that was born of my own eyes,a ship that went…
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You’d Be Surprised What You Can Forgive
He threw the phone like thunder throws itself across the sky,never concerned with what is displaced or dismayed,just wanting to display some rage,a little trailer of the lightning that is on the way.He threw the phone like she’d made a mistake,the kind of misstep that could only be trained out of her with fear,and he…
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Her Father Is Dead and Today Is His Birthday
I send best wishes to your ashes,flowers with bowed heads are no comfort,because I feel nothing on this day, every year.There is happiness in the days before,then hangovers,then nothing.An emptiness that is taller than you and I,an endless echo of silence that stalks me from midnight, until the twenty ninth stutters into life,and it’s not…
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Sincerely, Jennifer x 