Tasting your lips as the Taylor Swift record you put on spins to the last second, we are surrounded by silence, enveloped by the insistent heat of the summer night, and the moonlight that moves through the curtains onto our skin. I kiss you, again, our love story, layered and luscious, standing and then falling,…

Don’t ask me to explain the science of religion again, I’m pretty, and I’m petty, pressing my lips against yours until you can no longer speak, and I’m at peace, because everything is quiet, everyone is absent, except for you and me. You make me dinner, hours after I fell asleep, you never quite get…

Twenty two temptations,since you last stared in my direction.Your gaze is insistent, intricate,and I deconstruct every detail as I deal with my weak will.You told me once,that a sin can be cleansed by sun,sneaking into heaven, by the back door, off the corner of Seventh,and even though it seemed like nonsense,I had no choice but…

Spiteful siren,jealous of the waves that wash over you,my sweet, out of reach love,there’s nothing else to do,but to retire to my rock,sing sad things about my broken heart and hope you’ll notice,so that I don’t have to be brutally honest. My eyes are brown,my tail is blue, but my soul is green,and I see…

God,I used to be somebody,roaming empty roads that even streetlights didn’t dare to enter,playing hopscotch on the mouth of hell,as you’d tell me that I would survive anything, anytime. Who am I now?What am I now?Why have you asked me to think about this now?Why can’t I be happy to lack, and just carry on,…