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tea please

let it be told that i fell in love with a cloud. let it be told that it was a tuesday, that it hung like rain without it. fluff dipped under a happy blue sky. the edges were headed to the future. years ago i eyed it not knowing what it would become. there was … Continue reading

at first sight

so it was love and now what it is isn’t bad either   standing in a stuck room waiting for lights   listening to a door explaining that the only real thinking left to do is in your dreams   seeing morning crawl over what used to be a mountain but now is a mall … Continue reading

i n d

in beginning there was nothing in the end there will be less in the middle there is you telling me in a language i cannot name that the sun is fading and the clouds are just misunderstood lakes and that you can’t do this thing anymore that you’ve been waiting a while to say it … Continue reading

i didn’t hear that dear

lay me in between the arms of your doubt and your sleep keep me close when there is no love even if tonight we are lovers consider me in the curl of a question mark when you are huddled trying to learn how to hold tight in spring eaten by the heat and the leaking … Continue reading

flu season

i drill through the city with a subway that weeps each morning about a blue print to a million other lives than this   they say that some of the microbacteria from thousands of years are being unfrozen from the glaciers because of climate change   why is this place so cold where is the … Continue reading

weep what you sew

Dear dear, There was a time when you dated these letters but I don’t know when it happened. I would say that is my biggest failure, save for the fact that I referred to it as it, and worse yet, I did it again. But I don’t. It could be today. Yesterday. Some other sad … Continue reading

to be read later

couldn’t stop the smoking so i swallow the cigarette   couldn’t coo the crying so i tether the tissues   couldn’t mend the ending so i look as you leave * swallowing you alive in gasps that tell of a story of something besides me spilling myself at your feet where i sift and slip … Continue reading

what i say that should be said to i

eat three meals daily save room for a fourth know that she will leave you empty   spill yourself into rooms where you don’t belong with people stuck on an idea that the ruined rise and fall fell sometime between the daily yawns and awkwardness that you hold on your chin not as a bruise … Continue reading

what was his name again

what do you tell her   do you say that i would fart loudly in public   do you recall when i would snore with spit pooling like a failed birth   do mention that it took me six long months to love you and only four short years to lose that love   do … Continue reading

home

you will want to mention the joke to the barmaids at the counter where people you grew up with have slobbered onto the worn wood made from trees nearby when the forest was cut down and the school was moved and the joke was first said on a day very much like today with the … Continue reading