lost poems
let us begin with the simple fact that not all poetry lasts forever. some poems are hidden between fingertips and in the places where bodies touch, and are lost for years, before being discovered in a...
View ArticleApart from the subtel leaking of 'you' that is quietly revealed through your...
Thank you.<3 This is a tough choice, but I think I would get a quote from Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet inked on my body, either on the inside of my wrist, the back of my neck, or on my forearm....
View Articleemergency room
my heart went to the hospital for an overnight stay, and came back all bruised-up, held together with scotch tape.
View Articlesetting the bone
When my brother visited the emergency room in seventh grade, the doctors set the bones of his broken arm so tenderly that I almost fell in love with the way they cradled it in their palms, feeling for...
View Articlepoetry over coffee
I take my coffee black, like my poems. I want them to be maddening, full of passion and grace, whirlwinds of stardust and disintegrating dinosaur bones. But every once in awhile I like to add cream to...
View Article"I hope our bodies become entangled in one another and grow together like...
“I hope our bodies become entangled in one another and grow together like vines, he remarked. And the girl replied, And I hope we are buried in the sweet dark soil and blossom into a beautiful flower,...
View Articleperhaps
perhaps it is not so much the sex we worry about, but whether our body will accept another’s into its own skin.
View Article"I never dreamed the sea so deep, The earth so dark; so long my sleep, I have...
“I never dreamed the sea so deep, The earth so dark; so long my sleep, I have become another child. I wake to see the world go wild.” - Allen Ginsberg, from “An Eastern Ballad” (via floriental)
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"I lost my place in your pages, she said. And the other girl cried, But why?...
“I lost my place in your pages, she said. And the other girl cried, But why? Have you not read every word? The first girl answered, I have. But that doesn’t mean I understood every one.” - Fragment 32
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if a writer falls in love with you
Every writer has a cold heart. It lives inside the apartment building of their ribs, on the very top floor close to the fire escape, where it can flee through the window if need be. They like to ruin...
View Article"Tomorrow may be hell, but today was a good writing day, and on the good...
“Tomorrow may be hell, but today was a good writing day, and on the good writing days nothing else matters.” - Neil Gaiman
View ArticleYou may disagree with the notion that all writers aren't sad, but all good...
Oh, no, I’d have to disagree with you there, too. That’s not a fact of life. It really is not. Good writers do not have to be sad just to have substance and depth. Happy writers can write about certain...
View Article"If a writer falls in love with you". Now that my dear writing friend, is the...
Thank you so much, my darling fellow writer. x
View ArticleFrom fragments: "...What's beautiful is never truly whole." + "...What's...
Thank you for warning me of this. I need to challenge myself, and you are so very right. <3
View Article"If you unzip a poem, what remains? he inquired. Bee stings, deer bones,...
“If you unzip a poem, what remains? he inquired. Bee stings, deer bones, wilted roses, and time itself, she replied. And if you make love to it? he asked. Well, she answered, sex with a poem is never...
View Articlepluckings
Yesterday I peeled off my skin and hung it on the clothesline to dry. Two tiny sparrows came and tried to pluck at my bones, laid bare underneath layers of tissue, but were driven away once they...
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