Story-teller History lover Game changer. Cigarette stealer Frantic kisser Marvellous man. Tango dancer Horrid singer Big jazz bands. Blanket hog Kitchen snob Traveller’s soul. Couldn’t ask you to stay Wouldn’t ask me to leave, You understand I am poetry writer Smooth talker Rebel yells, Spur of the moment Last minute decisions Too bright smiles. Shy lover Prank plotter Drunky McGee. Contradictions Long distance […]
In the process of emerging, chances are hearts will be given away. Some more willingly than others, true, but in the event of heartbreak just remember caterpillars become butterflies but what happens to the cocoon ?
lipstick stains on the wine glass spattered with conversations stuttered. she downs the whiskey to numb the fear and i can’t fault her. we’ve been running for so long now it’s hard to stop. i figure it’s not enabling if your fingers curl and you’re catching smoke. she wipes her lips with a napkin, red […]
When I was 17, I would’ve told you turning 21. At 21, with smoke in my veins and ash in my throat, It was of no longer being 19. Nineteen was the age of freedom, Before responsibilities were a real thing. When bills got paid via an automatic deduction From a bank account that was […]
i. we bundled up in layers of freedom and jumped into the car driving hundreds of acres into the foreign future bubbling with excitement, we painted hazy tomorrows with bourbon and sex, charted yesterdays into notebooks bound by platitudes and dime store ink and too loud bands and we called this youth. ii. you twisted […]
He calls her luminescent Incandescent, extraordinary. She isn’t sure that he hasn’t swallowed a thesaurus, He isn’t usually this verbose, after all, He laughingly nudges her chin, “fireworks”, he whispers, “Embodiment of youth”, lightning fingers tracing across her thighs She shudders. She spends the next five years searching Searching for that incandescent smile, Practiced fingers […]
Strange Iron fascination Wrought silver Wreaths Wraiths Writhes Withering. Sum odd years Fleeting chemistry Alchemic equations Lightning rods Fascinating Emulating Indifferent. Immobile Amber eyes Ember salves Tinder selves Absence Essence Abstract. Word art In formation Information Strangely insignificant In significance Tender lambs Slaughtering wolves. They say little girls grow up too soon on fairytales […]
(or the last time i really thought about him.) Next time that we meet Your name will have the prefix Dr. I can’t remember if your hands were Callused or if your lips were cracked Or why I bled over the lines you whispered But next time we meet, I know That our clothes will […]
I tell my friends that I’ve discovered a couple of new moles Erupted overnight, and that I’m terrified. I don’t tell them that I’m scarily alone That the scary part is how OK with it I am. I don’t tell them how much I crave the solitude, How the thought of “catching up” freaks me […]
The Indian Theory of Existence proposes That everything on Earth has a purpose Each person a mission and each disease an herb. I have an Indian burn on my soul From the years we spent diving The turbulent waters of adolescence Puberty that stripped us of logical thoughts Sparrow diving into the wilderness Rock and […]
lessons of summer 