I will never let you keep the accent lamp in the kitchen. There’s pans, and pots, and spoons, and knives. Cutting boards are littered with chives. The wine we have is Spanish, and the cheese we have is French, and […]
poetry
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His sins do you confess them? No I keep them. To some a peculiar matter for wife and husband, but the summer I was sixteen thirty-two years after the summer my sister was sixteen what […]
i wish i were more things that a person could love, but my skin is raw and scarred, every second that i breathe is a second too long, and even with the right intentions my actions end up wrong. What […]
Out of focus save for a lock of chestnut hair, my father wholly in shadow and his hands around my chest. My mother watching but even then consumed by her own darkness. It’s my second birthday, and my father is […]
My darling, with her clothes littered on a floor painted orange. The windows did not come prepared. Cactus on a stool, and a stack of our vinyls (we bought them in a far away fair). The nights are force with […]
My mother’s friend sips on her coffee, her eyes don’t leave my face. she warns as she looks at me, quietly, without saying a word, because at that age you must have heard warnings about smooth talking beasts, because things […]
Comfy sheets and blankets galore underneath the window sill, I cannot await you furthermore I just left you and still – I crave for you to hold me, to feel your warm embrace, I miss the way we used to […]
Don’t drop the hammer in the lake chilled inexperienced hands seem to think otherwise. Just, don’t drop the hammer in the lake honey. Shivering maple leaves were strewn upon the dock in autumn, and had rustled in protest in the […]
3,500 BC no metals native to this ground but people who built their lives in stone know stars and sea, know the scope of the world from here 2,500 BC Tarxien Cemetery comes strangely to life when metal comes to […]
Look in the mirror and put on your face. Some waterproof mascara frames each eye because you must be prepared just in case your day turns from bad to worse and you cry. If a tear should fall, you will […]
It’s 4 in the morning and my head keeps thinking about the puddles on the floor from when the rain came in. I live in a house with blood stains under fresh paint and a foundation that creaks under the […]
Trying to be silent And not show any fear With darkness as a cover For things that are too near My footsteps echo slowly Down this creaky hallway floor My only sweaty focus The haunched white figure standing in the […]
As the sun sets over the sea And the sky fades to grey I fly away From turkey and talks Of what I am studying, Planning, loving, achieving I leave with a little less Less of a rock in my […]
it is tiny and insignificant and it can fill you with fuel and send you up in flames. it is ignorant, arrogant, and insolent and most unfortunately – indifferent. you are a tower with sound supports, weathered granite casing, weak inner walls, and […]
Get ready get set it’s time to go fighting a battle but only you know Constantly watching never stopping Desperately wanting A new way out No reason to stay they all went away no one will pray or hear you shout […]