Caught on the exhale, hungry heart and empty lungs, lips tangled together you filled me with air
Category: Love
These walls
These walls are high but poorly built. The right brick crumbling sends it tumbling.
Twine
You dropped out of a tree into my path, a shiny acorn, and I, not yet a sapling. How could I have known then how our branches were destined to grow together?
Crumbs of you
like the howling ache of the last bite, yearning, your pillow–cold– my fingers sweep for crumbs of you between my sheets.
3:24 a.m.
They say if you have trouble sleeping it’s because someone’s thinking of you. I’m sorry for those restless nights.
Tension
and I lean back a little, slowing the pace of my speech. Because its hot in here– with the radiator and my cable-knit sweater and the words… Read more “Tension”
centered
it’s not the weight of your body that pins me to earth it’s the beat of your heart i count my breaths by
August Tenth
I didn’t care much for the sunset, right here, in the old churchyard with plums rotting at our feet. The pregnant trees bowed to us, sticky, alcoholic; a drunken, golden nest. Right here, perched… Read more “August Tenth”
Indigo Tuesday 