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Little Girls Must Fight Their Urges
Someone mentioned your name yesterday,and my nails dug into my palm,the marks still present as I struggled out of a dream of you this morning,asking myself why my impulse is still to punish myself for your presence in my subconscious when I am supposedly free? The trains are fucked this morning and all I can…
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Hanging Up
I’ve got my ex husband on line one,asking if things can be fixed,and I tap my pen against the oak of my desk,making a wish as I watch my phone shuffle through songs by starry eyed girls who saw things that my eyes aren’t capable of conceiving. I wish that I was a mother. He…
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The Girl Who Is Still Waiting For It To Get Better
Much like Pandora,I’ve opened a box,started something I can’t finish,so, now I’m staring at a starry eyed reflection,trying to focus on not falling through the floor,because I told myself a secret that I can’t take back. I can’t swallow it again.Though I am gentle with my aching oesophagus,she simply says “no”.She has suffered enough,covering up…
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Fools Fall In Love, Especially Fools Who Think They’re Smart
I thought I’d play it cool, but I melted.I thought I’d be strong, but my will is as weak as my body,and now I am in a pen of my passion,imprisoned and… alarmingly into it. I’m a kissing cousin to Clarice Starling,caught up in my love as the second book unfolds,stung by how right it…
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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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Sincerely, Jennifer x 