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Lesbians and Cats Will Do As They Please
If I am to be everything to everyone,why do they see me as so small?Why do they scold me like a little girl?Why do they let their words cast a shadow atop my head,as if I will not grow? Why do they keep clawing my flesh and gnawing on what’s left, if I am nothing?My…
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All At Once and All The Time
I tried to become a dream,a vision in violet,at war with your oven and the powder blue sky that sought to distract me,emulating the eyes of my beloved.I gazed out the window in a hazy, happy stupor,until the kitchen was filled with silent, staring smoke,judging and tutting as I fell under your spell. You were…
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Summer Rain
Sprinkles of summer rain on your soft skin,cinnamon sticks on the window sill,burnt to nothing,and I,burned at both ends but still aflame for you.My lips tingle and tremble,heart fluttering as the fantasy finds a life of its own,growing, glowing, towering tall above us,as we kiss in a shadow in the summer rain.
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She’s At It Again
Darling, difficult woman,arguing with empty rooms and echoing tombs,razor sharp, irresistible,only amenable when I am beneath your body and your blue eyes.Dining on disagreement,never a kind word without a cruel caveat,but I am at the mercy of your mean spirited love.
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Old With You
I don’t want to be young forever,just old with you,yours, truly,like the sweet morning light belongs to the sun.