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Rock and Roll
My rock and roll iconoclast, clasped tight in my cherry embrace, homecoming Queen with the devil’s flowers around her wrist, and I miss her when she splits to go buy me a drink, cheap cider, and a blossoming kiss when she returns from the bar, like the prodigal daughter.
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Monogamy
We planted flowers where nobody would find them,exchanging vows like Christmas gifts at the gates of he old factory on the hill that was meant to be flats six months ago.Life was always slow, in this kind of town,the kind of place where sunsets and winter winds become one,and life goes on,day by day,late bus…
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The Adventures of Two Very Visible Lesbians
Mountains bowed before us,humbled by the harrowing majesty of our romance,and as night came and went,in the skies, birds surrounded the sun and moon at all hours,reaching out their wings around them,in case they felt faint and fell from their powder blue perch. Living once just wasn’t for us,on the hunt for an existence that…
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Summergirl
There was this record,that you hated and wouldn’t hear,no matter how hard I haggled and all the battles I fought to make you see that it was our lives in a neat, sixteen track package.I spent the last few weeks of the summer shaking and salivating,possessed with the feeling of finally being understood,by some distant…
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No Man Is An Island, But I Am No Man
She asked me why I insisted on existing as an island,why I felt so frosty when she held me,why I had to be born as the daughter of the lonely sea.I could see her frustration,see her point and her many objections to all the boundaries and barriers I had blessed between us. No man is…