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Life Long Sickness
My heart is filled with longing and fear,according to the stethoscopes of all my psychics,it’s an instant, irreversible diagnosis,so they say,because love is a life long sickness. My best girl brings trouble to my door,to my dormant desires and my shining soul,I weep blood as I watch her fix a coffee in the kitchen,waiting in…
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The Adventures Of Action Woman and Emotionally Overwhelmed Poet Barbie
She dressed like every day would be an adventure.Shiny, sensible shoes, fit for running from doom,and a jacket, with lots of pockets,that always ended up carrying my lip balm and sovereign blues.I used to wake like the slow, daunted dawn of Winter,but with her,I would rise before the summer sun had had her breakfast,planning for…
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What Happened When I Stopped Trying To Control Everything and Just Tried To Be Happy
I was ready to resolve my story.There were spirits in my soul,and I was sending them away with a sleepy wave at a washed out, red front door,almost pink, from the lashes of life’s endless bartering, that had miraculously come to an end.I stood by my faded front door,watching them pass from my land to…
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True Love
Day and night, I stay, devoted, dawn ‘til dusk, darling. True love is madness.
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Which Way Did She Go?
I awoke and asked a simple question to the empty room around me.Where did I disappear to,and why was I reformed at dawn?Mentally, I’m still in the trenches,trying to trace myself after all this time.I lost my lover to the sea,and I can see her, smiling back through reckless waves that wait for my body…