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Sweet On My Soul
It was getting close to eleven.I could barely hear you speak,but I didn’t need to, because I could hear my heart pounding and that was enough.Parties were never the place for me,but I swallowed my second thoughts until they were so small, and I showed up,rewarded by flat drinks and Taylor Swift’s early records being…
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As I Come
All that I was, was whatever truth I told that day.Fiction fades into fact and back again,and you’ll never know the difference between a dream I let you get lost in,or a dire reality,so,just take me as I come.
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New Year, New Poem
Red and green sparks slink across the sky.Life is returning for a moment,meek and mastered no more,she is strong,roaring as she stretches across my eyeline,to remind me, once again, that nothing lasts forever,except the joy of fireworks. I feel it in the air,bubbling and brewing under my skin.There is magic in my drink.Down it goes,right…
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Until They Vanish
Rolling hills that once went on for miles stutter to a stop,interrupted by industry, with slender, skeletal fingertips that wrap around the wild, wide world and snap her struggling throat.Money trickles but it never rains on the deserving,and the children grow weary before they’ve even left their mother’s wombs, because they know they only exist…
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Immunity
I’m not immune to you,to the melody of your shoes on my bedroom floor,couldn’t be more certain that I’m cynical and vulnerable all at once,but I’m just, sort of, going with it,going wherever your rolled eyes and exasperated sighs command. I fall and rise,resisting sleep, then being ravished by it,the same record on repeat,a comforting…
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Sincerely, Jennifer x 