Home — so glad to be in you — in every little corner you hide — me myself — lost in you — you a feather comforter — covering my fears — bruises — in new sight — wings test the air — alight back to you — your twine — binds fixes — faked…
Captured on the Grass
Captured by the blue grass on the lawn we lay in the sunshine of banjo rhythms harmonica and Kentucky pain and pleasure gathers our world in the shambles of a grind guttural delivered from a foot stomping stage you can’t bury us in the memory of winter spent it is a sweet Indian summer, sticky…
Wanderlust
I knew but a house — for most of my childhood it was one. The only refuge I knew — it was safe and boring … it never moved, no matter how many books I devoured when all had gone to bed — I couldn’t cast away a spell onto a far away island, no…
Stolen Faces
My eyes are honed and hungry — searching — watching Walking with probing analysis — curious — my mind Grumbles with desire — pangs — penetrating My wants are insatiable — embraced — plated portraits Waiting to be picked — plucked from a stranger’s stare Unsuspecting faces — come into focus — foregrounded Framing your…
The Robber
I need you, I like you, need you a lot Let me take you, a bite, a sip, a life, Borrow your blood, what have you got? I need you, I like you, need you a lot. Come on, just a kiss, just a thought … You can’t even feel the slip of my knife….
Love Hate
Her kiss was sweet upon my breath gliding me into the forever of her lips Her barbs pungent purple blisters unintentioned welts upon my heart A spaghetti stain a noodle dropped a meatball gobbled a tender leaf I didn’t share A flavour complete Thai soup that blooms Caprese salad Margherita I would marry I cannot…
Preparing My Heart
Heart wounded cage fetched opens heals Open Ben’s toybox leashed old memories Remembering smells warmth paws popcorn pats Pawprint captured clay pressed into palm Into muzzle nuzzles love melts pain Love forgive me wholeness renewed held New puppy licks tenderness — forever’s kiss. ∞ Submitted as part of “National/Global Poetry Writing Month” (#NaPoWriMo #GloPoWriMo). Today’s…
Hidden in the Rocks
∞ Submitted as part of “National/Global Poetry Writing Month” (#NaPoWriMo #GloPoWriMo). Today’s prompt: Day Nine: write a “concrete” poem – a poem in which the lines and words are organized to take a shape that reflects in some way the theme of the poem. 30 Poems in 30 Days All text and photography ©…
Paradise
Spring is a strange land when our friends are ill With Us, ’tis Harvest all the Year If grief — the largest part — My Paradise — the fame But just the Summer knows Think of it Lover! I and Thee I’ll be contented — so — When I am occupied — I have so…
Running
Desérables I covet thee desire the tree tap it and drain it catch it gather it amount it and boil it into the blood of my blood. It is the spring its temperatures bring release as your veins swell your sugar melts into buckets of sticky sexy sap. Paper crêpes a superhero cape candied bacon…
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